General Tso's Smoked Pork Loin

 

      On the smoke trail once again.  This is new for us.  I love General Tso's Chicken, but this intrigued me.  I was able to prepare the loin with new rubs, injection, etc. intact.  This is definitely an Asian Style Pork with a smoke twist, a KOSMOS recipe.  I suppose you could call this Asian BBQ Fusion.  For this I used Oak Lump Charcoal and spiked it with seasoned oak wood as well.  

1 center cut pork loin

KOSMOS SPG rub

2 cups rice of choice

1 bag steamed broccoli florets 

Sesame seeds

1/2 cup General Tso's Sauce

Extra virgin olive oil

      Rub loin with oil and cover with SPG rub.  Rest in fridge overnight.  Be sure to add more oil the next morning, it will dry out overnight.  When ready to cook, preheat pit to 250F.  Place loin on pit.  The recipe actually calls for 350F, but I prefer lower.  Even at that temp it only took 90 minutes to finish.  

Oiled and SPG

On the pit

      Heat the Gerneral Tso's Sauce in a saucepan.  When internal loin temp reaches 125F, glaze with warmed sauce, leaving in pit.  When internal temp reaches 135F, glaze again and sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Temp 145 & glazed

      Cook rice and broccoli according to directions.  When internal loin temp reaches 140F remove from pit and tent it to rest for 30 minutes.   When rice/broccoli are done, slice loin thin and serve over rice/broccoli and drizzle with remaining sauce.  Serve.  Not really spicy, but the smoke really compliments it.  

Sliced, ready to plate

"In any man who dies, there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight.  Not just people die, but worlds die in them, but not my sauce"

General Tso (paraphrased)

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