We all have fond memories of great barbecues. It is hard to say no when one of our friends or a family member invites us to a barbecue. The thought of the food on the grill with the smoky aroma all around is admittedly hard to resist. The barbecue has been a traditional get together meal for decades and it will be here for many more.

There are many different methods for cooking a great barbecue meal. Some prefer to use a dry rub seasoning on the meat while grilling, others like to marinate the meat for a day or so before cooking it, some people enjoy adding wood chips to the grill for added smoke flavor, and some just like their food smothered in lots of barbecue sauce.

Traditional barbecue sauce is a blend of tomato sauce and vinegar. You can use ketchup in place of those two items. If you like, cider can be used either in place of or in addition to the vinegar. Then, the creativity really kicks in, flavors and spices are added to give each sauce its own distinctive taste.

For sweet barbecue sauces, brown sugar or honey are usually added. You can also use fruit or jelly to sweeten a sauce. To make it spicy, you can add any type of pepper or hot sauce that you like, cayenne will give it a milder flavor while you can really spice it up with something like Habanero sauce. Any combination of herbs and seasoning can be used in your barbecue sauce, garlic and onion powder are very common but for added flavor you can also use something like fresh cilantro. Another ingredient that is often put into a good barbecue sauce is smoke flavoring. This can be used in place of wood chips in the grill. Mustard is also used in the making of several barbecue recipes.

Marinades are also very popular. Try out several different methods with this as well. A good marinade can either be made by adding water to one of your barbecue sauce masterpieces or creating something entirely new. Try a soy sauce, brown sugar and sesame for something different. Don’t be afraid to experiment and try new things. Then, you just soak your meat in it overnight in the refrigerator to let it really soak in the flavors.

The key to making the perfect barbecue sauce is to make it the way you would like it to taste. Add any ingredients you like, switch them up and use a lot of variety. Try new things especially if you have a few favorite herbs or flavor preferences.

Fourth of July Anniversary bbq Sauce

Ingredients:

Vinegar 1 Cup.
Catsup 3 Cups.
Brown Sugar 1 Cup.
Maple Syrup 1/2 Cup.
Honey 1/2 Cup.
Oranges 2 Each Cut Halves
Liquid Smoke 1/4 Cup.
Cayenne Pepper 1 tbsp.

Instructions:

Make the sauce ingredients the day before the 4th of July to really set the flavors.

In a small pot add the catsup, vinegar, brown sugar, maple syrup, and cook on medium heat stirring till all the sugars dissolve and combine together, then add liquid smoke and cayenne pepper, stirring to combine cut the oranges in half and squeeze the juice into the pot and add orange rind as well, stir lightly till all are mixed simmer for 10 minutes and remove from heat.

Saucing Instruction:

This 4th of July BBQ sauce works well with pre cooked food like beef, pork, or chicken and duck, as a bbq glaze and sauce for cooking.

Barbecued Chicken Orange Glaze Sauce is a very simple barbecue sauce that can be made quickly. If you don’t like the flavor of orange marmalade, frozen orange juice concentrate can be substituted. In that case you should only use a quarter cup of OJ concentrate in place of the jar of marmalade. This recipe has a robust spicy sweet bbq flavor which goes great with fresh spring salad.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup. Honey
1 small jar. Orange Marmalade Jelly
1/3 cup. Heinz 57 Steak Sauce
2 tbsp. Texes Pete Hot Sauce

Instructions:

Start your chicken on the grill before making the sauce. This sauce is applied at the end of cooking. Take all of these ingredients and add to a small saucepan. Cook on a medium heat and stir the mixture until blended. Simmer the Barbecued Chicken Orange Glaze Sauce for about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and apply it to pre grilled chicken in a 2 inch baking pan then bake at 300 degrees for 20 to 30 minutes before serving. Don’t forget the fresh spring salad and you have a perfect light meal that tastes great.

This Marinate steak Sauce Recipe is the best steak marinade sauce I have ever tasted

Ingredients Needed:

1/3 cup. Sherry
1/3 cup. Soy Sauce
1/3 cup. Vegetable Oil
4 tbsp. Honey
2 tbsp. Grated Ginger Root
1 tbsp. Garlic Minced

Prep Instructions:

In a medium bowl mix and whisk together sherry, soy sauce, vegetable oil, honey, ginger, and garlic. Marinate steaks for at least 4 hours before grilling.

Aisan Barbecue Sparerib kao-pai-ku Sauce

Sauce Recipe Ingrediends:

1/4 cup. soy sauce
2 tbsp. honey
2 tbsp. hoisin sauce
2 tbsp. white vinegar
1 tbsp. Chinese rice wine or dry
sherry
2 tsp. Minced garlic
1 tbsp. sugar
2 tbsp. chicken stock

1 Can. plum sauce heated on the side for dipping

Sauce Recipe Instructions:

In small bowl combine all the ingredients in a bowl stirring till mixed well. Pour over spareribs and let set 3 hours at room temperature or 6 hours when refrigerated. Remove from pan for grilling or cooking in the oven, oven cooking; preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place in roasting pan. To prevent smoke in oven, place another large pan with water on lower rack, roast ribs for 45 minutes then pour remainning sauce over ribs then raise temperature to 450 degrees for 15 minutes more remove from oven cut and serve. Serve with plum sauce hot or cold.

Chinese Chicken Marinade

INGREDIENTS:

2    tbs. Oil
2    tbs. Ketchup
2    tbs. Chili Sauce
1/4  cup. Honey
1/4  tsp. Cayenne Pepper
1/2  tsp. Salt
1/2  tsp. Ground Ginger
1/4  tsp. Granulated Garlic

INSTRUCTIONS:

Appetizer: 5 Pound chicken parts
Dinner:  one whole chicken
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Mix all the ingredients shown above mixing together in mixing bowl then add chicken parts to the mixture and let it marinade for two hours befor using it for grilling, basting is opptioal, you can pour remainning sauce over the wings after grilling chicken for extra zing.
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For whole chicken: Put the chicken into a shallow baking pan, basting the chicken inside and out before you place it in the oven.  Pre set the oven at 300 degrees for 45-60 minutes basting with the extra sauce that you have left over every 15 minutes for coverage, after your 60 minutes are up do a temp check of 165 or better before carving for service.

Honey Spiced BBQ sauce

1 1/4 Cυp Catchup
2/3 Cuр Salаd oil
3/4 Cup Vinegar
5 TaЬlespoons Worcestөrshire sauce
1 Cup Honey
2 Tаblespoon Dгy mustard
3 Teaspoοn Ginger, fresh grated
1 Lөmon, sliсed thinly
3 Tablespoons Butter

Insrtuctions for Honey Spiced BBQ sauce

Combine all ingredients іn а ѕaucepan and heat to Ьlend together.
Remove lemon pөel before basting it onto your barbecue meat.

Honey Barbecue Rib Sauce

INGREDIENTS:

2 to 3 lbs. spare ribs

1/4 cup. honey
1 tbs. water
1/4 cup. 57 Sauce
2 tbs. Minced Garlic
2 tbs. Ground Bean Sauce
2 tbs. oyster Sauce
2 tbs. Hoisin Sauce
8 tbs. Sugar Granulated
1 tsp. cooking wine
1 tsp. sesame seed oil

MARINADE:
INSTRUCTIONS:

Using a saucepan, sweat the garlic with oil on a medium heat. Put in the following Combination of these ingredients in one bowl: ground bean sauce, oyster sauce ,hoisin sauce, sugar, cooking wine, sesame oil after the marinade is cooked, spread on both sides of spare ribs. Let stand in a shallow pan in the refrigerator 2 hours. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Put spareribs on a rack in a broiler pan. Brown one side for 20 minutes flipping to another side for 15 minutes more. Remove spare ribs from oven, brushing on some honey barbecue sauce. Place it back to oven for a few more minutes for glassing. Cut the ribs and serve.

BARBECUED COUNTRY RIBS

INGREDIENTS:

1/4 cup. Brown Sugar
1 tbs. Salt
1 tbs. Celery Seed
1 tbs. Chili Powder
1 tsp. Paprika
1/4 cup. Vinegar
1 cup. Ketchup
1/4 cup. Honey
2 tbs. Hot Sauce

INSTRUCTIONS:

Combine all of the ingredients into a mixing bowl stir together until mixture is well blended and set to the side..

Country rib preparation:

Trim the fat from the ribs and cut them into serving size pieces. seasoning with salt,pepper and garlic. Place on the broiler and broil 15 to 20 minutes turning each side to remove as much of the excess fat as you can and until meat has browned. Apply the sauce over all, continue basting with the sauce until ready to serve.

Beer BBQ Sauce For Chicken

3 pounds chicken parts
1 can beer
2 cups ketchup
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup brown sugar
6 Tbs Vinegar
3 tbs liquid smoke
1 tbs lemon juice
2 tsp mustard powder
2 tbs onion powder

Pre-cook the chicken in a 400 degree preheated oven for 25 minutes. Make your Beer BBQ Sauce while the chicken is cooking.

Add all of the ingredients into a mediun saucepan and heat just to a boil. reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes stirring every 5 minutes.

Move the chicken to the BBQ grill and baste with the sauce. Turn it every few minutes and continue basting all sides. Cook the chicken until it reaches an internal temperature of 165 degrees.