Barbecue sauce is a common name for American sauces with a pleasant sweet and sour spicy taste, which is served with grilled meat. There are not dozens of variations of its preparation, but hundreds. Let's consider the most popular ones.
Recipe content:
- How to make barbecue sauce - cooking features
- BBQ sauce: a classic recipe
- Homemade BBQ Sauce
- Video recipes
Barbecue sauce is most often prepared with tomatoes combined with paprika and other spices. It is perfect for grilling vegetables, meat and game (large and feathered). This sauce makes pork ribs, steak, chicken and other dishes even more delicious. It gives juiciness and rich aroma to food. Well, without a doubt, we can safely say that the purchased sauce cannot be compared with the homemade version.
There are 3 basic types of barbecue - tomato, mustard and vinegar. Moreover, the cooking technique, consistency and additional products may vary. This sauce is component, which determines the individuality. By manipulating additional components, a new recipe will always be created.
How to make barbecue sauce - cooking features
How to make barbecue sauce? What are the main ingredients? How and with what to serve it? We will consider all these and other useful secrets in the bottom article.
- Tomatoes for the sauce must be ripe and juicy. Slightly spoiled ones will do here, but these places must be cut out.
- For the sauce, you can use ready-made tomato sauce or canned tomatoes in your own juice. The second will need to be peeled and finely chopped.
- The meat should be greased with sauce 10 minutes before the end of cooking. Having greased it earlier, the meat will burn.
- The main use of barbecue is to serve it on charcoal grilled food.
- Combines barbecue with chicken wings, drumsticks and breasts, duck, beef and lamb ribs. You can also experiment with dressing with vegetables and fish.
- The sauce is served in different ways. For example, it is poured into a large bowl and placed in the center of the dish, or poured into small portioned containers. You can also use a bottle with a narrow neck so that the guest can pick it up and pour the right amount.
- The sauce can be cooked in large quantities. Then it is poured into sterilized jars, pasteurized in a steam bath and rolled up with sterilized lids. It keeps well, and the longer, the tastier it becomes.
BBQ sauce: a classic recipe
The classic barbecue sauce is based on ketchup, thick tomato puree, with the obligatory sweet ingredient: sugar, honey or maple syrup. In addition, the sauce has a sharp, spicy and sour note at the same time.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 166 kcal.
- Servings - 500 ml
- Cooking time - 40 minutes
Ingredients:
- Ketchup (neutral taste) - 300 g
- Tomato paste - 100 g
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l.
- Honey - 1 tbsp. l.
- Sugar - 1 tablespoon
- Mustard beans - 1 tablespoon
- Dried garlic - 1 tsp
- Chili pepper, flakes - 0.5 tsp
- Apple cider vinegar - 50 ml
- Worcestershire sauce - 15 ml
- Salt, pepper - to taste
Step by step cooking:
- Peel the onion, rinse and chop finely. Fry it in heated vegetable oil over low heat until transparent.
- Combine mustard with chili and pound in a mortar. Add this mixture to the onion.
- Mix the mass and add sugar, honey and tomato paste.
- Stir and pour in the ketchup again. Put the sauce on low heat and evaporate a little to thicken slightly.
- Pour apple and Worcester vinegar into the finished mass.
- Dip a blender into the food and beat until smooth and smooth.
- The barbecue sauce is ready.
Homemade BBQ Sauce
Homemade barbecue sauce is distinguished by its manufacturing technologies and spicy taste. Below is one simple universal recipe. This sauce can be used to grease pork, chicken, kupat, etc. fried both on charcoal and in the oven.
Ingredients:
- Tomato sauce - 400 g
- Tomato paste - 3 tablespoons
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Apple cider vinegar - 3 tablespoons
- Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons
- Honey - 1 tablespoon
- Mustard powder - 1 tsp
- Red hot pepper - a pinch
- Salt - a pinch
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
Step by step cooking:
- Peel the onion and garlic and chop very finely.
- Pour oil in a heavy-bottomed skillet and heat over medium heat.
- Add the onion and sauté until tender, 5 minutes. Then add the garlic and continue to fry for another 2 minutes.
- Pour the tomato sauce over the onion and garlic and boil.
- Combine sugar with mustard powder and pour 100 ml of boiling water. Stir until completely dissolved.
- Add tomato paste to the sweet mass and pour in the vinegar.
- Stir again and pour the mixture into the tomato sauce.
- Season with applesauce, salt and black pepper to taste.
- Continue stirring the food for another 10 minutes.
- Remove the finished barbecue from heat and cool before serving.
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