Slow cooked pork and chicken with Texas BBQ sauce served fried sweet potato strips

In Estonian

Making this dish will take more time than usually, but believe me the result is worth it. The dish is so flavorful and tasty. Cooking slow and in low temperature is making meat so juicy and mopping it with Texas BBQ sauce will add interesting sweet and sour taste nuance to the dish.

Rub for meat:
4 tbsp salt
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp black peppercorns
2 bay leaves
1 tsp cayenne`i pepper
2 tsp smoke paprika
1 tsp garlic flakes
60 g farine sugar
30 g sugar

Crush all the ingredients in the mortar. Put the mix into the jar. You will use only part of this spice mix . Keep leftovers for next cooking times.


1,5 kg pork neck
6  chicken thighs
Rub 

Cover pork neck and chicken thighs with rub. Be sure that meat has covered well with rub and massage rub into the meat. Put meat pieces into the plastic bags (I used vacuum bags) and keep the meat in refrigerator at least for 24 hours. I kept 36 hours.

At the same time make the Texas BBQ sauce 
200 g ketchup
100 ml apple vinegar
100 g dark Muscovado sugar
1 tbsp Worchestershire sauce
1 tsp smoked paprika
100 ml orange juice
1 tsp garlic flakes
25 g butter
Put all ingredients to the pot and let the sauce boil 5 minutes. Put the sauce into jar and let the sauce cool down.
There is more sauce what you need in this time. You could also use the sauce for preparing other dishes. Keep the sauce in freezer.

If the meat has been in refrigerator at least for 24 hours, then take it out from the plastic bags and move to the baking tray. Cover meat with the aluminium foil. Bake meat in the oven in 140 C for 4-5 hours.
Remove foil and pour the meat juices, what has come out from the meat to the pot. Mop the meat with Texas BBQ sauce, so these will be nicely covered with sauce. Raise the oven temperature to  180 C and cook meat ca 20 minutes. Take meat out of the oven and mop again with Texas BBQ sauce. Bake more 20 minutes in 180 C.  
Take the meat out of oven and let it rest for 20 minutes. At the same time take the pot where is meat juices and reduce these to the sauce.
Serve meat with fried sweet potato strips and meat sauce.