It is summertime and it is hot outside. That means barbecue season is here.
The word barbecue comes from the Caribbean word barbacoa. A barbacoa was not a way of cooking food, but the name of a wooden structure used to smoke food. Spanish explorers took the word barbacoa back to Spain.
For a while, barbacoa still referred to the structure that food was cooked in, but after a while people started using it to refer to the process of cooking food in a barbacoa and the cooked food itself. I hope we all get to use our barbacoas this summer.
Here are a couple recipes for different types of flavored barbecue sauces. Enjoy!
Bourbon BBQ Sauce
Yield: 1 1/2 gallons
Ingredients:
- 1 gallon barbecue sauce
- 1 cup Dijon mustard
- 3 cups apple cider vinegar
- 2 chipotle peppers
- 1 cup honey
- 1/2 cup bourbon
Method:
Blend the apple cider vinegar with the chipotle peppers. Mix with the remaining ingredients. Refrigerate.
Blueberry BBQ Sauce
Ingredients:
- 3 cup wild blueberries
- 1 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1 cup cooked diced bacon
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 3 tbsp ketchup
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 minced garlic cloves
Method:
Place everything in a pot and bring to a boil. Blend in blender until smooth.
Recipes submitted by Executive Chef Josh Nylin at Las Sendas Golf Club.