Bacon Weave Tacos With Pulled Pork, Mac & Cheese & Red Cabbage Slaw Recipe
This recipe combines pulled pork with homemade macaroni and cheese and red cabbage coleslaw in delicious bacon weave taco shells.
Ingredients
- 1 pork shoulder approximately 3 pounds
- 1 cup Head Country Bar-B-Q sauce
- 1 jar Head Country Bar-B-Q seasoning
- 72 slices bacon
- 8 ounces pasta
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 1/2 tablespoons flour
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 3 cups (12 ounces) Cheddar cheese shredded
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 1/8 cup lime juice
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 red cabbage chopped
- 1 carrot grated
- 1/4 cup cilantro chopped
Instructions
- Season the entire pork shoulder with your choice of Head Country seasoning and place into slow cooker.
- Top with 1 cup Head Country sauce of your choice and cook on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours or until pork shoulder can easily be shredded with a fork.
- Shred pork shoulder with a fork and stir to coat with sauce.
- Line 6 slices of bacon vertically side by side.
- Fold back every other bacon strip and lay a slice of bacon perpendicular to the original 6 strips. Repeat this step until your entire bacon weave is done, alternating which strips go over and which stops go under the original 6 bacon strips. If this sounds confusing at all just watch the video.
- Bake the bacon weave in your oven for 15 minutes at 350°.
- Remove the bacon weave from the oven, pat down with paper towels to remove excess grease, place an upside down bowl over the bacon weave and trace around the bowl with a knife so you’re left with a circular bacon weave.
- Hang the bacon weave over 2 chopsticks or kabob sticks, balance the 2 sticks across 2 pint glasses and bake for another 5 minutes or until the bacon is crispy.
- Cook pasta according to the directions on the package.
- In a separate pot, melt butter over medium heat and stir in 1 1/2 tablespoons flour. Add 1 1/2 cups milk and reduce heat to low. Stir in cheese slowly until melted and pour over cooked pasta.
- In a bowl whisk together orange juice, lime juice, brown sugar, salt and pepper.
- Add cabbage, carrots and cilantro and toss to combine.
- Assemble your tacos by adding pulled pork to each bacon weave shell and then topping it with macaroni and cheese and red cabbage slaw.