fourservingsMarinades are flavorful pastes or liquids that are soaked into food for a while before cooking or can be used as a base for sauces and stir fries. This rich and glossy BBQ Sauce marinade will definitely make your meals pop. Rub on your meats and store the rest in the refrigerator to use as dipping sauce.
‘A bowl should not laugh at a calabash when it gets broken’
An African Proverb
For very quick and tasty meals, this marinade comes in handy. I always have a jar of it saved in my refrigerator for stir fries, fried rice, sauces,meats, omelettes and of course, as a dipping sauce.
Ingredients:
- Onions
- Scallions
- Red bell pepper
- Garlic
- Pear
- Apple cider vinegar
- Olive oil
- Water
- Maple syrup
- Corn starch
Recipes featuring BBQ Sauce:
BBQ Sauce (No Ketchup, no Worcestershire sauce)
Marinades are flavorful pastes or liquids that are soaked into food for a while before cooking or can be used as a base for sauces and stir fries. This rich and glossy BBQ Sauce marinade will definitely make your meals pop. Rub on your meats and store the rest in the refrigerator to use as dipping sauce.
Ingredients
- ½ large onion
- 1 scallion
- ½ red bell pepper
- 1 pear
- 4 garlic cloves
- ½ cup soy sauce
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- ¼ cup water
- 1 tbsp corn starch
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp paprika
Instructions
- In a blender combine, onion, scallion, red bell pepper, pear, garlic cloves, soy sauce, maple syrup and apple cider vinegar.Blend till smooth.
- Mix water and cornstarch till it becomes a slurry. Set aside.
- Pour marinade into a pot. To it, add paprika and black pepper. Cook on medium high heat till it reduces. This will take about 10 minutes.
- On low heat, gradually stir slurry into the marinade till it thickens. If your sauce is lumpy, pass through a fine sieve.
- Take off heat and let it cool. Pour into a jar and store in the refrigerator.
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