Asian American Oven Barbecued Pork Roast

Four simple ingredients—one luscious result. This recipe brings out the best in a pork roast. It is meltingly tender, deeply mellow from the hoisin and sweet/tangy from the American BBQ sauce. Serve the warm pan drippings on the side.  

Ingredients:

One 3 to 3 ½ pound pork butt roast

½ cup hoisin sauce

¼ cup American barbecue sauce

1 can of beer (or about 12 ounces of water)

Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 13 by 9 baking pan and a roasting rack with cooking spray. Place the rack in the pan and place the roast on the rack, fatty side down.

In a small bowl, mix together the hoisin and American BBQ sauce. Slather almost half of the sauce on top of the roast. Turn the roast fatty side up and slather the top and sides of the roast with more sauce, saving out about 2 Tablespoons of the sauce.

Pour the beer into the bottom of the pan and cover tightly with foil.

Cook for 2 hours. Remove from the oven, remove the foil and flip the roast over. Spoon the remaining sauce over the top and put the roast back in the oven for 40-45 more minutes.  

Remove from the oven, uncover and let rest for 20 minutes before slicing.