Faux Pulled Pork Sandwich

I had a hankering for a pork bbq sandwich for lunch but that's not the kind of thing you just make on a whim. Smoking a pork butt takes hours and hours. I'm also trying to cut back on saturated fat and calories so I've been eating a lot more tuna at lunch. I thought, why not mix some bbq sauce into canned tuna? With the right ingredients, it could be a good enough meal.

Now, stick with me here, don't turn away!. If you think about it, shredded pork and tuna look similar! Canned albacore tuna enhanced with tasty bbq sauce and flavorful dill pickles served on a fresh toasted potato bun is tasty, has a fraction of the calories of a pulled pork sandwich and takes mere minutes to make.

Ingredients:

• 1 can albacore tuna in water
• BBQ sauce. I used this new sugar free variety from Sweet Baby Ray's to cut the calories. It's tasty, was on sale this week at Ingles AND there was a dollar off coupon on the label. #score.
• Dill pickles
• Martin's potato bun - A good bun makes all the difference in a sandwich. Choose Martin's if they're available in your area. I buy mine at Ingles Markets.

This is a one pot meal!

Equipment:

• Small sauce pan
• Silicone spatula
• Can opener
• 2 forks, one for getting the pickles out of the jar, one for eating the fallout from this tremendous sandwich. Technically you COULD eat with the pickle fork, but I prefer a fresh fork myself.
• Plate - for serving

Use the can opener and open the can of tuna over the sink.

Squeeze the lid. You don't want all that juice from the can, so pour it down the drain.

This is what the tuna looks like after you drain that stinky juice. Nice and compact.

Use the spatula and scrape all the tuna into the sauce pan.

Squeeze BBQ sauce on the tuna. Sauce it down good, you're making BBQ here and want to kill any fishy tuna taste.

Stir it together and move it to the stovetop.

Heat over medium heat until just warm, stirring occasionally. You just want to warm the tuna through, its already cooked after all.

Everything is better on a toasted bun. I don't have a toaster, so I just use my oven set to broil and put the bun right on the rack.

Watch that bun a like hawk, you don't want a blackened bun.

Move the toasted bun to your plate and top liberally with dill pickles on the bottom bun.

Top the pickled bottom bun with Faux Pulled Pork.

Time to eat! Use your clean fork to consume the fallout from this big sandwich.

Enjoy your Faux Pulled Pork Sandwich!