Barbecued Pork Loin

Although this recipe comes complete with its own barbecue sauce recipe, you can very easily substitute a better one of your own.

Barbecued Pork Loin

Ingredients

• 8 pound Pork Loin Roast
• Salt and Pepper

Barbecue Sauce:

• 1/2 cup (1 medium) chopped Onion
• 1 clove Garlic, minced or 1/8 teaspoon instant minced Garlic
• 2 Tablespoons Oil
• 1 cup Catsup
• 1/2 Cup Water
• 1/4 cup firmly packed Brown Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 1/4 teaspoon crushed leaf Thyme
• 3 Tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce
• 2 teaspoon prepared Mustard
• 1 lemon, thinly sliced
• Dash Tabasco sauce

Directions

1. Sprinkle meat with salt and pepper.
2. Prepare barbecue sauce by sautéing onion and garlic in oil in fry pan until tender.
3. Add remaining ingredients.
4. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
5. Run spit through center of meat, making sure it is evenly balanced.
6. Secure to rotisserie with heavy cord.
7. Insert meat thermometer to tip is in center of roast but not resting in fat, bone or on the rod.
8. Arrange coals for roasting meat; grill over hot coals for 2 hours until meat thermometer reaches 140F.
9. Continue grilling brushing with barbecue sauce every 20 minutes until roast reaches 170F internal temperature, about 1-1/2 to 2 hours longer.

Yield:12 to 16 servings.

Source: Pillsbury's Let's Have a Barbecue, 1982.

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