Showing posts with label pork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pork. Show all posts

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Mango BBQ Sauce

Looking for a sauce that’s a little sweet, a little hot, and really tangy?  Take your taste buds on a tropical vacation with this recipe for mango barbecue sauce!

Goes great with chicken, ribs, or this recipe for pork shoulder smoked on the grill.

Ingredients:

¼ cup oil (canola or olive)
1 small yellow onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
½ teaspoon fennel seeds
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
1/3 cup molasses
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 serrano pepper, chopped
½ teaspoon ground cumin
1 tablespoon ground ginger
1 mango, chopped

Directions:

1.    Heat oil in saucepan over medium heat.
2.    Add onions, garlic, Serrano pepper.  Cook until onions are translucent.
3.    Add fennel seeds, cook one minute.
4.    Add all other ingredients except mango, cook four minutes.
5.    Pour into food processor with chopped mango and puree until smooth.
6.    Enjoy over BBQ pork, chicken, or ribs.

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Carolina-Style Mustard-Based BBQ Sauce

From the Carolinas to Kansas (aka, the BBQ belt), everybody has their own preference on barbeque sauce, and where you’re from plays a huge factor in what you like.  Mustard-based sauces are typically associated with my home state of South Carolina, but in fact, this sweet-and-spicy treat isn’t the preferred sauce statewide.  It finds its home in Columbia, and it’s popular throughout the midlands and lowcountry.


Here’s my take, after a little trial and error, on Carolina-style, mustard-based sauce.  Try it with this recipe for smoked pork shoulder on the grill, and cook it alongside this ketchup-and-molasses-based sauce for a little regional taste test!

Ingredients:

¼ cup butter
1 cup mustard
½ cup loosely packed brown sugar
½ cup cider vinegar
¼ cup Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon hot sauce
1 teaspoon onion salt
 2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon pepper
¼ cup honey

Directions:

1.    In saucepan over medium heat, melt better.
2.    Slowly stir in all other ingredients. Using a whisk is easiest.  Bring to a simmer.
3.    Give it a taste.  If you want it sweeter, add honey or brown sugar.  Hotter?  Add sauce or pepper.  Saltier?  Do I really have to tell you what to do?
4.    Let simmer for 3-4 minutes, remove from heat.
5.    Enjoy right away, or refrigerate and reheat when ready to serve.

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Holy Smokes! How to Smoke BBQ Pork on the Grill

Those of us raised in the south know that barbeque is barbeque and grilling is grilling, and never the twain shall meet.  Ok, maybe “never” is a bit strong. 

In fact, you can barbeque pork on the grill, but the principles of BBQ stay the same.  Say it with me, LOW AND SLOW.  The key to smoking pork on the grill – in this recipe, a pork shoulder – is to keep the temperature constant and low while the meat reaches fall-off-the-bone status.  And if you follow this recipe for smoked pork shoulder on the grill, fall off the bone it shall.  Try it with ketchup-and-molasses-based sauce, Columbia, SC-mustard-based sauce, Dr. Pepper sauce, or Cherry Cola Sauce. Dig in!


Prep time: 10 minutes.  Cooking time: 10-12 hours

Ingredients:

Pork shoulder (allow 1 pound per person)

Dry rub ingredients:

1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup salt
2 tablespoons black pepper
1/2 tablespoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon onion salt
2 tablespoons paprika

Directions:

1.    The day before you’re planning to smoke your pork shoulder, combine all dry run ingredients in a bowl.  Rub generously over meat, cover, and refrigerate.



2.    The day you’re planning to cook, set your alarm early!  It’s going to take about 12 hours total time.
3.    First thing, take the pork out of the fridge.  Then start soaking your wood chunks (or chips, though chunks are better) in water.  TIP: Toss a little apple cider vinegar in the water.  Then light your about 16 pieces of charcoal in a chimney starter.
4.    When the charcoal is ready, place it on the far end of the grill, in a charcoal holder if you have one (or a neat pile if you don’t).  Put a handful of wood chunks/chips over the charcoal.  The wood will give you your smoke, which is key for the flavor.



 
5.    On the other side, place a drip pan, with a little bit of apple cider vinegar poured in the bottom of the pan, lime so:


 
6.    Place the pork shoulder onto a grilling grate, and place the grate above the drip pan.  Your set up should look like this:

  
7.    Place the cover over the grill, with the holes above the meat, opposite the coal.  Make sure the holes on the cover and the bottom of the grill are open.  This should get some good smoke going!
8.    Now comes the hard part.  To maintain a constant, low temperature (you want to keep it as close to 225 degrees as possible), you’re going to need to keep about 12-15 lit charcoals going at all times, so you need to replace the coals every 60-90 minutes.  But you need to add coals that are already lit.  So every hour or so, light 12-15 new coals in the chimney starter.  Once they’re ready, add them to the grill. 
9.    For the first 3-4 hours, you should also add (pre-soaked) wood chunks/chips every 60 minutes to keep the smoke going.
10.    At about 3 hours (or closer to 4 if it’s a large shoulder), your meat will have a nice, black crust, like so:




11.    At this point, it won’t be able to take in any more smoke, so go ahead and wrap it in thick aluminum foil, and don’t bother adding wood chunks for the rest of the cooking time.  Just keep adding new coal as needed.
12.    When the shoulder reaches an interior temperature of 190 degrees, remove the pork from the grill.  Let rest for 30 minutes in foil.
13.    Open:



14.    Pull apart and enjoy!


 
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