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Friday, July 6, 2007

Dried Fruit Stuffed Pork Roast

Mr. Barbecue’s Dried Fruit Stuffed Pork Roast
Ingredients:
1-5 lb. Pork roast
4-6 oz. Dried fruit (apricots, cranberries, raisins, cherries, blueberries,etc).
1-16 oz. Jar of Traeger Sweet Rub
Yellow prepared mustard
Butcher string
Cut the roast in half (where I buy it, it’s already pre-cut. I just cut the string off) so that you have 2 semi-circle halves. With your knife, cut a slit along the flat top of each semi-circle. Cut the length of the roast and about 1 inch deep into the meat.
With your fingers, open up each slit. Add your favorite dried fruit or combination thereof. Sprinkle Sweet Rub lightly over flat tops of roast. Tie back together. Lightly sprinkle outside of roast with Sweet Rub, then add a light coat of yellow prepared mustard.
Put meat thermometer into middle of the roast.
Start grill and get to a medium temperature of 300 degrees F.
Put roast on the grill and cook for 2-1/2 hours at medium heat-using the indirect cooking method. Then begin to add wood smoke
(I like either Apple and Alder or Apple and Pecan mixtures of wood). Add new chips every 45 minutes.
While cooking-LIGHTLY mist the roast with a 50/50 mixture of apple juice and water.
Cook roast until internal temperature is 160 degrees F. When roast hits target temperature, take off, let sit for 10 minutes, then cut into ½ inch slices. Oh yeh!