I’m not a fan of store bought BBQ sauces. Making these yourself is so easy that there seems absolutely no point in buying a store bought product. Plus you have the added advantage of being able to tweek your own sauce to suit your taste buds – hotter, sharper, sweeter – it’s in your hands.
Richard Till shares his recipe for BBQ sauce in the Sunday Star Times today.
Here’s the recipe:
- half a cup of salad oil (he suggests not using your finest olive oil but I think making recipes with only the best ingredients is always well advised)
- 4 cloves finely minced garlic
- handful finely minced rosemary
- 2T mustard powder
- 2T sweet paprika (personally I’d go easy on this ingredient as I find it quite overpowering if you miscalculate the measure)
- 1T curry powder
- 4T sesame oil (leave it out if you don’t have any)
- 1T soy
- 1/4 cup cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup red wine
- 1/2 cup store bought BBQ sauce (don’t understand this bit and would be tempted to leave this out)
Combine all of these ingredients and brush on anything you intend to BBQ – meat, vegetables, fish – whatever!
Hi Alan I agree that a good barbecue sauce needs to have tomato in it and be home made (only because I have never found a store bought one that rocks). I recently bought a whole lot of American ones home with me and they were all either too bland, too salty or too over the top and no distinctive flavours. Some great packaging though – but I didn’t taste that!
How about we run a competition to make the best one – tomato season approaches – It’s an idea worth bottling!
Tried this out over Christmqas with a big crowd of family around. Added chilli flakes, marinaded lamb leg steaks and rump steak overnight – awesome! Family then tried same, using chicken thighs, raved! Certainly seemed to tenderise the lamb – will def add this to my ‘keepers’ book.
Excellent news! I thought it looked like if needed a bit of ‘spicing up’. Thanks for your comment.
I found myself nodding my noggin all the way thgrhou.
That’s a subtle way of thinking about it.
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Hmm, so I just tried this with some steaks and pork. It came out a bit bland – not helped by buying supermarket meat, and the supermarket BBQ steak – when will I learn not to buy that rubbish?
Anyway, this recipe needs more zing.
Thanks for giving it a go JP and then giving feedback so quickly. There are a few things that make it not quite right, in my opinion, bearing in mind that I haven’t made this recipe.
They are:
– it’s not a tomato base
– there’s no chili in the recipe
– it contains store bought BBQ sauce (surely the point of making this is so you don’t need to use store bought product)
Plus I have reservations on the amount of sweet paprika.
I might work on using this as a basis, without the items I questioned, and then post the recipe over the summer.
Sorry this was disappointing for you. Stay tuned.
Cheers
Alan