Saturday, January 11, 2014

Every Person Has Their Favorite Bbq Sauce Marinade

By Marissa Velazquez


When one wants to impress friends with your cooking, try basting meat with a BBQ sauce marinade. There are so many variations to try that every piece of meat can have a different taste. It adds a new dimension to flavour and your guests will keep going back for more.

The ingredients most commonly used are water, sugar, vinegar, spices and herbs of different kinds. Dried fruit such as peach, apricots and apples are added for that fruity taste. Molasses and tomato paste as well as maize meal are all combined to give it that special something. Sulphur dioxide and sodium benzoate are used as preservatives.

These flavourings have a delicious taste when used on different types of meat. Not all cuts of meat can however be cooked the same way. Thin steak, pork chops and chicken legs need to be cooked in a different way as to say, a leg of pork, lamb or a full chicken. If one were to cook them all the same, the large cuts will still be raw in the middle but nice a crispy on the outside. Try cooking meat in the oven for a while before sending it outside. This helps with the retaining of the juices.

The exact origin of this mixture is unknown but it seems to originate from around the end of the 15th century when Christopher Columbus bought a bottle back from Hispaniola, which is a major Caribbean Island of Dominican Republic and Haiti. Variations then started occurring both in England and France over the next 200 hundred years. The first commercially produced product was made by a company in Atlanta and was first advertised for sale in January of 1909. The brand name Heintz then released it in 1940.

For a delicious chicken roast try this as a recipe. 1 cup of root beer, 1 cup of ketchup, a dash of orange juice, 3 tablespoons of Worcestershire, 1 tablespoon on brown sugar, 1 tablespoon of molasses, a pinch of powered ginger, garlic powder to taste, onion powder, sweet paprika and black pepper . Place all of them in a pot and boil over medium heat. Once boiled, turn down the heat and simmer for 10 minutes stirring occasionally. Let it cool before putting in the refrigerator overnight.

When making chicken breast, add soy sauce, cider vinegar, minced garlic cloves, oregano and tarragon. Blend it all well in a dish and add the chicken. Refrigerate this in the fridge overnight and then drain and cook normally. Adding root beer will add that unique taste as well.

Every country has their own ingredients that they enjoy. In South America they like to use chimichurri which is a parsley based green colour for condiments. Australia prefers caramelized tomato-based which is of a dark brown colour and which has a smoky flavour. In China, they prefer a sweet glazed look. They roast their food in a special oven which is usually gas fired. Come chefs prefer to use a red bean paste which can often be thick and gooey.

In South America they use chimichurri which is fresh parsley, olive oil, garlic with herbs and red pepper flakes. This is used on beef, lamb as well as pork and fowl. It is not only used for meat but can be used for vegetables as well. Using BBQ sauce marinade on any meal will leave the taste buds asking for more.




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