Friday, May 4, 2007

Cafe Rio dishes

For anyone who has visited Cafe Rio in Utah, and had their pork burritos, pork salad (with house dressing), or lime-rice...enjoy!

Café Rio Pork
6 lbs. pork
1 16-oz bottle of salsa
1 can Coke
2 cups brown sugar

Place pork in crock pot and fill it ½ way up the pork with water. Cook on High for 5 hours. Drain off water. Cut pork in thirds. Mix together sauce ingredients and put on top of pork. Cook an additional 3 hours on High. Shred pork with forks. Leave it on Low until ready to serve. Serves 12 (serve in large flour tortilla combined with rice and black beans)


Lime-cilantro Rice
1 lb. long-grain rice (2 ¼ cups)
1 bunch of cilantro
Juice of 2 limes
4 cloves of garlic

Chop garlic and cilantro. Heat 2 Tbs. of oil in a skillet. Add rice and all chopped ingredients. Sauté for 3-5 minutes, stirring frequently.
Put 4 cups of water and lime juice in a rice cooker. Add rice mixture to the rice cooker and cook according to the cooker’s directions. If you don’t have a cooker, combine rice, water and lime juice in a 3-quart pot and bring to a boil. Then reduce heat and simmer until all the liquid is absorbed by the rice.


Creamy Tomatilla Salad Dressing
1 packet Hidden Valley Ranch Buttermilk Dressing
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup mayonnaise
3 tomatillas (look like green tomatoes—a must!)
2 cloves of garlic
1 cup fresh cilantro
½ tsp. cayenne pepper
Blend all ingredients in the blender. Refrigerate.

4 comments:

emily said...

where did you get this recipe???

if it really does taste like Cafe Rio, i will love you forever.

i'm trying it this coming week and so i'll find out. thanks, i love cafe rio!

erinmalia said...

oooh, andy, i'm sooo pumped to try this! the lime rice especially.

Meg said...

Diddo on the excited!! I LOVE that dressing and can't wait to try it.

erinmalia said...

we did the pork and the rice tonight. we really liked the rice and would do it in burritos again. the pork was fine, but think we might try one with a bit stronger flavor, just because we're picky like that.