Our favorite new recipe, though? This downright dreamy pulled pork crescent ring! It’s got everything I love in a game day snack—bold flavor, no utensils needed for eating, and easy so I can spend as much time out of the kitchen as possible. The first time we made it we only made one—and it was gone in five minutes!

Since then we’ve learned to double the recipe when we’re going to have company over. And we’ve also had it a number of times for a quick dinner. There’s nothing like coming home to the smell of sweet and smoky pulled pork in the crock pot!

 

Ingredients

2 lbs of pork tenderloins – I prefer boneless
1 can root beer – A&W!
1 white onion, sliced & separated in two piles
1 tbs liquid smoke
1 cup of any bbq sauce -your choice! (I used Sweet Baby Rays – Sweet ‘n Spicy)
Salt & Pepper
1/4 cup honey (optional)
2 tubes of Pillsbury Crescent Rolls (a total of 16 rolls)
Italian seasoning
*1 Pizza stone

Instructions:

Spray your crock pot lightly with Pam. Place half of the sliced onions in the crock pot.

Season your pork with salt & pepper and place over the onions – add the remaining onions on top of the pork.

Pour can of root beer & liquid smoke into the crock pot.

Cook on LOW for 6 hours OR cook 1 hour on High and 3 hours on Low.

Remove pork from crock pot. Shred with fork and place in baking dish. Drain out root beer from crock pot but save some of the sliced onions and place them in baking dish as well. * You are done using the crock pot now.

Add your bbq sauce (& honey if you choose) and mix well in baking dish.

Broil in oven for 5 minutes and remove.

Place crescent rolls in the freezer while oven preheats to 425 degrees.  On your pizza stone, overlap each triangular crescent roll in a circle around the stone (it will look like the shape of a Sun – see below)

Fill pork in circular rim of the crescent rolls, and fold over. * see below Season the ring with italian seasoning.

Bake for 12-14 minutes until golden brown.

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Quick tip: If you don’t have a pizza stone generously grease a solid bottom pizza pan and bake crescents and pork on there instead.

Recipe and image courtesy of Kiss My Apron.