Torta Ahogada (Drowned Sandwich)

Ingredients:

to serve:
4 long rolls amongst difficult outer crusts (pan salado or other crusty breadstuff amongst a soft center)
1 1/2 loving cup Old El Paso Traditional Refried Beans
1 medium white onion, sliced into sparse rings

for the pork:
1 onion, cutting into rings
iii lb boneless pork roast
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon dried minced onion
1 teaspoon ancho chile powder
1/2 teaspoon oregano

sauce:
20 dried chiles de árbol (stems together with seeds removed)
1/4 loving cup apple tree cider vinegar
1/4 loving cup pepitas (hulled pumpkin seeds)
1/2 medium onion
iii cloves garlic
1 teaspoon dried oregano
8 oz no tabular array salt added love apple tree sauce
salt
freshly solid soil dark pepper


Directions:
Line the bottom of a 4 quart dull cooker insert amongst the onion rings. In a small-scale bowl, whisk together the garlic powder, minced onion, ancho chile together with oregano. Rub into all sides of the pork roast. Place inwards the dull cooker over the onions. Cook on depression 8 hours. Cube or shred the pork. Broil for 5-10 minutes or until crisped to a greater extent than or less the edges.

Soak the dried chiles inwards iii cups boiling water. Soak for 10-15 minutes or until Drain, reserving the liquid. Add the chiles together with remaining sauce ingredients to a blender. Pulse until smooth, adding chile liquid every bit needed to sparse the mixture.

Heat the refried beans inwards a small-scale pan. Spread a small-scale sum of the beans on both sides of the bread. Fill amongst pork. Top amongst sliced onion. Close the sandwich together with pour the sauce over the top. Eat quickly!

My thoughts:

Old El Paso challenged me to come upwards up amongst a novel together with exciting way to piece of occupation their classic refried beans. I didn't desire to accept the tardily way out together with brand dip or tacos together with then I made ane of my favorite Mexican sandwiches, torta ahogada. The advert literally way "drowned sandwich" together with it is adpt. You basically accept a meat-filled sandwich together with drench it amongst sauce. Then swallow it amongst your hands. It isn't pretty merely it is delish.

Traditionally the sandwich is served amongst your selection of salsa dulce or salsa enchilosa. Salsa dulce actually isn't sweetness merely it is tempered past times love apple tree sauce spell salsa enchilosa is direct chile. I went the dulce road merely residuum assured, the sauce is notwithstanding pretty hot merely the pepitas together with love apple tree sauce both thicken it together with proceed it from scorching your mouth.  I really can't articulate how tasty this sandwich this is. The pork is melt-in-your oral cavity tender amongst slight crispy bits reinstatement of existent carnitas. The refried beans human activeness every bit form of a barrier to proceed the sauce from turning the sandwich into full mush although the long it takes y'all to swallow the sandwich, the softer together with messier it gets. The sandwich is a snap to brand every bit well. The pork cooks all twenty-four hr menstruum inwards the dull cooker, the sauce takes close 20 seconds to brand inwards the blender together with the broiling/reheating the beans is uncomplicated together with tin endure done simutaiously. Perfect for a exceptional weeknight dinner.