Cafe Rio Sweet Pork
Copycat Cafe Rio Sweet Pork is so easy to make in your slow cooker at home! Perfect for Nachos, Burritos, Tacos, Enchiladas, Burrito bowls. This is your NEW go to Mexican favorite!
We are on SUCH A Mexican food kick. Like GOOD Mexican food, not just weeknight ground beef tacos we usually have once a week. We’re talking homemade fried corn tortilla chips, homemade salsa, restaurant style queso, authentic enchiladas, ultimate loaded nachos, the best ever food truck style tacos with homemade corn tortillas, sour cream, candied jalapenos, red onions, cilantro etc…. you get the point. Mexican food heaven.
This Cafe Rio Sweet Pork makes the best nachos, enchiladas, tacos of your LIFE! It is made in the crock pot and so easy! If you like Chipotle, Moes, or Cafe Rio Sweet Pork, you are going to absolutely love this. I always keep some cooked beef, pork or chicken in the fridge because it makes quick meals so easy to put together for our family. My kids have crazy schedules in this season of our life and we hardly ever eat at the same time so having a cooked and ready to use protein on hand is a huge help. Scroll to the bottom for the Cafe Rio Sweet Pork recipe or keep reading for more yummy recipes!
Welcome to Freaky Friday: Winter 2022! This group is the brainchild of my friend, Michaela’s and it is SO MUCH FUN! For those of you that aren’t familiar with Freaky Friday, it is a group of food bloggers that get assigned a secret blog and we get to choose any recipe we want to make from it for our own blogs. Then all of the recipes are revealed at the exact same time and we get to see who had our page and which recipe they selected! It has been a great way for me and my readers to find new blogs to follow, and I feel honored to be a part of it!
Check out my past Freaky Friday Recipes here:
Three Cheese Roast Beef Sliders
Slow Cooker Ranch Chicken Tacos
P.F. Chang’s Lettuce Wrap Salad
Bacon-Cheeseburger Potato Soup
Cookies and Cream Ice cream Cake
10 Minute Chicken Ramen Stir Fry
Bacon Cheeseburger Mini Meatloaf Patties
PB & J Bar Cookies with Strawberry Jam
Creamy Gorgonzola Pasta with Steak
Greek Chicken Salad with Lemon Oregano Dressing
Best Easy Chile Relleno’s Casserole
Roasted Tomatillo Salsa {Salsa Verde}
This round I was assigned to pick a recipe from the food blog: Devour Dinner. Rebecca is a new to me blogger and I REALLY enjoyed browsing her website. We have several things in common other than the obvious love of cooking! She is a boy mom, a busy fellow sports mom like me and they also have a golden retriever. She also LOVES everything DISNEY(!), which is my absolute FAVORITE!
She cooks very similarly to how I do! Delicious recipes that are easy to make with common ingredients. She has lots of instant pot and air fryer recipes. I absolutely LOVE my instant pot. I haven’t used my air fryer yet but I got one for Christmas and plan on breaking it out really soon and have bookmarked several of her recipes to try!
A few that caught my eye:
Beef Teriyaki & Teriyaki Noodles
The Best Pulled Chicken Sandwich You Ever Tasted!
Bruschetta Chicken with Balsamic Glaze
But the first recipe I chose was the Cafe Rio Sweet Pork. Like I said previously, we absolutely love it in so many dishes! Tacos, nachos, enchiladas, burritos, salad…. This is just a HUGE hit at our house. I love that it uses simple ingredients we keep on hand and that is made in the slow cooker. Slow Cooker liners make clean up a BREEZE too!!!!
Copycat Cafe Rio Sweet Pork is so easy to make in your slow cooker at home! Perfect for Nachos, Burritos, Tacos, Enchiladas, Burrito bowls. This is your NEW go to Mexican favorite!
Save RecipeIngredients
- 3 lb Pork Roast
- 8 oz can Tomato Sauce
- 3/4 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 cup Dr. Pepper
- 2 Tbsp Molasses
- 1 Tbsp Cumin
- 1 Tbsp Chili Powder
- 1 tsp Salt
- 2 tsp Garlic
- Pepper to taste
Instructions
Combine Tomato Sauce, Brown Sugar, Molasses, and Dr. Pepper.
Season roast with Cumin, Chili Powder, Salt, and Garlic
Place Pork loin in Slow Cooker / Crock Pot
Pour mixture over roast
Cook on low for 6-8 hours or High 3-4 hours or until roast shreds easily.
Remove roast and shred
Reduce excess liquid over medium/high heat until a thick sauce is reached. Add sauce to shredded pork to serve
Take a look at all of our 2022 Freaky Friday Winter Edition Recipes:
- An Affair from the Heart – Homemade German Chocolate Cake
- Aunt Bee’s Recipes – Cafe Rio Sweet Pork
- Devour Dinner – Sweetie Pie’s Mac and Cheese
- Family Around the Table – Easy Garlic Knots
- Feast + West – Chocolate Cake with Irish Buttercream
- Fresh April Flours – Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits
- The Fresh Cooky – Easy Mini King Cake Recipe with Crescent Rolls
- Hostess at Heart – Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Blondies
- House of Nash Eats – Pizza Casserole
- Kathryn’s Kitchen Blog – Cheesy Garlic Bread
- Lemoine Family Kitchen – Breakfast Chorizo Enchilada Bake
- Life, Love & Good Food – Cheddar Cheese Popcorn
- The Speckled Palate – Hot Spinach Artichoke Dip
- Sue Bee Homemaker – Cornbread Tamale Pie
- Take Two Tapas – Whipped Feta Dip
- The Wimpy Vegetarian – Spinach Madeline
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