Ingredients: 6 strips bacon,2 pounds beef chuck,2 tablespoons olive oil,1/2 cup brown sugar,salt and pepper,1 onion, chopped,2 cups to 3 of barbecue sauce,Hamburger buns or Hawaiian rolls
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a rimmed cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Lay bacon strips over parchment.
- Bake pan for 10-15 minutes, or until bacon is crispy.
- Remove from oven and let cool on pan. Reduce oven heat to 250 degrees and leave oven door open while you dress the beef.
- Drizzle olive oil over the bottom of a medium roasting pan.
- Place meat in roasting pan, and coast with sugar (you want kind of a thin crust). Season generously with salt and pepper and cover with onions. Tent pan with aluminum foil.
- Roast meat for 3 to 4-1/2 hours, or until beef is fork tender and can be pulled apart easily.
- Remove from oven, and set aside to cool slightly. Meanwhile, chop bacon into small-dice bits.
- When meat can be handled, shred apart and add barbecue sauce and bacon.
- Mix until evenly coated and bacon is distributed. Season with salt and pepper to taste, and add more barbecue sauce if you will.
- Serve hot on toasted buns or Hawaiian rolls.
