Peach BBQ sauces

Fruit in the Kitchen
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Some folks believe that peaches are an essential ingredient in bbq sauce. Here’s a recipe of mine from last year. What’s yours?

Habanero BBQ Hot Sauce

Puree:

  • 2.5 lb fresh tomato
  • 1.5 cups sliced peaches
  • 1 cup crushed pineapple
  • 1 cup onion
  • 1 cup tomato paste
  • 1/2 cup blueberries
  • 12 habanero peppers
  • 5 cloves garlic
  • 1 TBS fresh rosemary

Blend or Whisk With:

  • 1 cup cider vinegar
  • 1 cup Oban 14 whiskey
  • 1 cup molasses
  • 1/4 cup arrowroot flour
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup oil or melted butter
  • 1/4 cup lemon juice
  • 2 TBS black pepper
  • 1 TBS salt
  • 1 TBS grated ginger
  • 1/2 TBS ground cumin
  • 1/2 TBS mustard powder
  • 1 tsp ground allspice

Cure At Room Temperature 2-4 Hours.
Reblend.
Refrigerate Overnight.

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just curious for the arrowroot, it is a thickener and needs heat to be activated. that sauce looks plenty thick, you might try xantham gum instead.

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in water.

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I guess if you are using it to bind. I cook for a living, so i look at this recipe with my restaurant eyes, and I see three thickeners (tomato paste, molasses and the arrowroot). Also the cup of raw onion puree would turn off some.

Here is a bastardized version of a Georgia Table Sauce we use in the restaurant
1 #10 can ketchup
2 #10 can tomato sauce
1 quart smoked worcestershire sauce
24 ounces yellow mustard
1 quart cider vinegar
24 fluid ounces molasses
1 pound brown sugar
1/2 cup garlic, chopped fine
1/2 cup dry minced onion
2 tablespoons allspice, ground
1 tablespoon ground ginger
1 cup soy sauce
3 fluid ounces liquid smoke flavoring
2 whole lemons, juiced and rind
12 ounces Dr. Pepper
1/3 cup black pepper, ground
1/3 cup chili chiles
2 cups Fruit puree of your choice (pineapple, peach, apple, plum)

Combine everything, bring to a boil, simmer for 25 minutess or until the house smells like BBQ, remove lemons and blend with a stick blender.

this yields about 4 gallons, so quarter it for home use.

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Try it, you might like it!

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Richard, I buy BBQ source and have never known how to make one myself. Using peach and other fruits is certainly very interesting, I will try it . Thank you for sharing

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BTW, since we on the topic of using peaches, does anyone know how to use dollar upto ping pong ball size unripe peaches?? I have thinned quiet a lot of them and do not know what to do with them.

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compost them or whip them at the neighborhood kids when they encroach on the lawn

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:laughing:one of my friends said to use them on the slingshot to shoot raccoons , or any two legged or four legged intruder

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I’ve recently seen two random pics of raccoons riding other animals, one from Konrads, I believe, of a coon riding a boar, and most recently on Reddit from a national park in FL of a coon riding an alligator across a lake.

I fear our new raccoon overlords. I even have a pack that roams here, 3 adults and 3 babies.

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OMG, Moley, you need a gun! We used to have a ground hog living right next to my garden. We couldn’t get it to move, so we put a electric fence around. But the ground hog was smart, somehow it can detect if the fence was grounded by the weeds or not, I had corns knocked down, veggie was eaten, etc. the next spring, I saw her with 4 babies behind her walking towards my garden for dinner. I think the ground hog is way worse than a raccoon.

Isn’t that interesting that raccoon ride on the alligator. I bet the alligator was thinking of a dinner :laughing: I read on that story later said the gator soon dived and raccoon safely swam crossed the river.

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IL847,

You can try pickle it. Last season, I heard from a friend that he pickled the undersize, unripe peaches but I did not get into details. I imagine that the combination of vinegar, salt and sugar should do its justice. The Japanese, Korean pickled their plums for commercial market so peaches probably do fine?

The only thing that stops me is the cyanide in the peach kernels that I have no clue of its health hazard, if any! Please take this with plenty grains of salt!

Tom

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Hi, Tom. I will try to pickle them .If I successfully made something useful out of these peaches, I will report it back. One of my friend commented that it tasted so bland that even a squirrel does not want it :sob:
unripe plum, japanese mume type of plum is very very sour which will be great mix with some salt to make seasonings

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IL847,

I think I have that similar trait of yours, not willing to waste potential food sources! :grin:

Tom