Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Barbecue And The The Best Flavors Of Its Basting Sauce

By Patricia Myers


Whether a meat has to be grilled, fried or roasted, basting it before cooking improves its tastes as well as texture. This method has been widely practiced by almost all people as this gives a delicious flavor to the meat. When having a barbecue party, it is very important to have or make the best BBQ basting sauce. True enough, there are a lot of different procedures and ingredients when it comes to basting.

Basting is considered to be cooking technique whether before or during the cooking. When it happens before the cooking, it often is referred to marinating. This is when a meat is immersed overnight on a mixture that usually is made up of flavoring such as soy sauce, vinegar or seasonings.

There are many good thing brought by marinating raw flesh. It improves the taste since the flavor is absorbed. It also tenders the texture of the meat making it very easy to cook and even very desirable to eat. Though when mixing up the components, extra careful in choosing it for it can cause the meat to dry up as well and it would be hard to chew on.

For grilling and roasting, basting often is before and during the cooking. Same as with barbecue, it can be marinated beforehand as well. Although, when talking about barbecue the mixture is commonly referred to mop sauce. That is because, barbecue mop is used during the cook out instead of a basting mop. To use a barbecue mop, slightly dip it on the sauce and it wiped all through out the meat while cooking it.

But if there are seasoning that is used and rubbing such utensil can wipe it out then better use a spray bottle. But, this would make the spray tube clog when the spices are cut or grounded very well. Making sure that the sauce is warm may help to prevent the clogging.

There are a lot of spices that may be added when making a condiment but not all are as complementary and would taste great. Cumin powder is one of the stuff that can be added on the mixture. It has great aroma and adds volume on the flavor.

A little contrast goes a long way. Salt, brown sugar and chili powder would be very perfect for that. This gives the variety in the mixture, making it sweet and spicy but could still feel the saltiness over it. The chili powder depends on preference of an individual with spicy foods though.

Oregano or mint is good in removing the unpleasant odor. For the base flavor, Worcestershire sauce can be perfectly used. This is known to bring good flavor in foods since it is an ingredient when making umami.

The last spice that should be added are a grounded paprika and cayenne pepper. This gives both subtle hot and sweet variety flavor to foods. Paprika also has warm aroma like the cumin powder. After adding enough amounts of these ingredients and grounding it carefully, mix this up with enough water.




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