Step 1: Gather ingredients.
There are really only 4 ingredients to this recipe.
2 pounds of fresh ground pork*
1 package of thick sliced bacon
1 bottle of bbq sauce
1 container of your favorite rib rub
*if your local store does not normally sell fresh ground pork, ask them to make you some. Most will and it is usually cheaper than ground beef. I got mine done for $1.99/lb!
Next you will take your ground pork and place it on a cutting board or flat clean surface. I recomend you genrously sprinkle the area with the pork rub before placing the meat down. This will make it easier to flip the slab and lets just all agree to call it a slab of meat because it is! Pat the meat into a rectangle and start rubbing the rib rub into the meat. Do not spare the rub here people..its alot of meat and it need alot of rub!
Flip meat over (use a large spatula to help flip it if needed) and run more spices onto the other side.
In a small skillet, take 2 or 3 pieces of the bacon and fry them until they are crispy. Cut them into small pieces and spread over the spiced meat. I like to cut my bacon up before I cook it, it just seems to cook fast that way to me. You could also cheat a little on this step and use already made real bacon bits from the store.
Once you get that done, you want to start rolling this like a jelly roll.
Now it's time to get started on the bacon lattice work that will go over the top of this yummy pork roll!
Take your thick cut bacon and lay out 5 pieces, just barely touching lengthwise. Place on piece in the center of the 5 pieces like you see below. (I didnt have great bacon but you get the idea!)
Starting with the outside piece of bacon, fold up the 2nd and 4th pieces of bacon over the center piece. Lay down 1 new piece of bacon across the remaining 3 pieces still laying down.
Fold 2nd and 4th pieces down over bacon. Next you flip up the 1st, 3rd & 5th pieces of bacon and layer in another new piece of bacon. Fold down the flipped up pieces and continue with another piece of bacon, possibly 2 depending on how long your original 5 pieces are. You will be left with a bacon latticwork that is pretty awesome in its own right!
At this point you need to place your pork roll on the lattice work and start to roll it up tightly in the bacon.
At this point you will pour some of the bbq sauce into a bowl and brush it on the Bacon Bomb.
I made 2 Bacon Bombs to accomidate my ravenous Herd of teenagers so what you see in the above pic is the recipe x2!
You will want to place a baking rack of some kind in the bottom of whatever pan you bake this in or else it will get mushy on bottom. Bake this at 425 degrees for 1hour and 15 minutes. Yes, this seems like a long time at such a high temp but remember you are cooking a really thick meat slab covered in thick bacon!
Every 20 minutes, and this is VERY IMPORTANT, you need to take your bbq sauce and baste this dish...EVERY 20 MINUTES for the entire time it is in the oven!!! This will help it stay moist as the inside cooks to perfection!
Use a meat therometer and stick in the middle of the slab ( I just love that word! lol) and as long as your center internal temp is 160 you should be fine if it looks like it is done before the given time. (160 degrees is the recommended cooking temp for ground pork) Slice this bad boy into even slices and have at it!!!
I do not have pics of this done but I will update tomorrow night with pics! I went ahead and made this up tonight so that the pork rub would have extra time to season the meat! Let me know if you try this and what your families think of it!
That looks very YUMMY!! I can see my family thinking so too!
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