by Texas Homesteader ~ 

While traditional BBQ sandwiches often use pulled pork or beef brisket, I also like to make them using ground meat. They’re so much easier to eat that way. Here’s how I make them using just the power of the sun: My solar oven. 

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Benefits of Solar Oven Cooking

I love my solar oven and I use it often, both in the summer and winter seasons.

I like to cook outside outside whenever possible in the hot & humid summer months to keep that cooking heat outside and not in my kitchen.

Cooking Ground Meat In A Solar Oven

I pulled out two pounds of ground pork from the wild hogs hunted and harvested by RancherMan earlier this year. 

I crumbled the meat into the black enameled covered pan that came with my *solar oven. 

To the 2-lbs of ground meat I added:

½ cup of strong coffee. (To me it just adds a nice rich flavor to my BBQ)

A few generous shakes of Worcestershire sauce

¼ cup *Claude’s Brisket Marinade

1 cup chopped onion

½ teaspoon chili powder

2 whole cloves of garlic 

This wild hog meat is pretty lean & what little fat will get cooked from it is pretty liquid even when chilled. So it will be easy to strain the small amount of fat when it’s cooked.

Solar Cooking Ease

Then I placed the covered black enameled pan in my solar oven and pointed the reflectors toward the sun.

I adjusted the oven about every hour or so to track the sun & keep the temps around 300 – 325ºF.

Cook time in a solar oven depends upon how often you move the oven to track the sun, whether or not there is cloud cover partially obscuring the sun, etc.

In the solar oven my BBQ pork was fully cooked in about 2 – 2.5 hours.

 

I brought the pan inside, drained what little fat was present and took the garlic cloves & sent them through the garlic press and stirred them back into the cooked pork.

Now I add a quick Homemade BBQ Sauce and bring out some soft hamburger buns.

A healthy dollop of BBQ sauce on the bun and a few freshly-sliced onion rings and some zesty jalapeno slices from the garden and we’re good to go.

I love solar cooking!

What Goes With BBQ Sandwiches?

Here are a few of my favorite things to serve with our BBQ sandwiches:

Sauteed Vegetables – So quick, so healthy.

Instant Pot Boxed Mac & Cheese – It doesn’t get any faster than this!

Homemade Creamy Coleslaw – Perfection for BBQ

Crispy Fried Potato Cakes – Hot crispy comfort food.

Fried Okra Fritters – Minced okra in a cornmeal batter.

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So take advantage of the season and enjoy some delicious BBQ, y’all!

~TxH~

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Tips

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~TxH~

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