Easy BBQ Recipe

Another away-day BBQ today, that is two in two days. Today we were at Granny BS’s house and it was a great opportunity to test out one of the Weber range of BBQ Marinades.

We had the traditional Weber BBQ Marinade (£9.94 for 6 Amazon), a simple and easy BBQ Recipe that you simply pour over your meat, leave to marinade and then slap onto the grill.

We seem to always use the BBQ marinades over chicken but they also work really well over other cuts and varieties of meats such as Lamb chops, Pork Steaks, Beef steaks (Sirloin, fillet and rump etc).

I also thing the Weber BBQ Marinade works well when you brush it over seafood kebabs and, if a rogue veggie has snook in, you can smear it over their veggie kebabs as well.

Weber BBQ Sauce and Marinade

Marinades work best when you can leave them to flavour the meat overnight but we only had chance to give the Weber BBQ Sauce Marinade a couple of hours over our chicken breasts and being honest, you would not have noticed the difference had they been marinading for three days!

The flavour was spot on!

You kind of expect it to be perfect, it is Weber after all, but this really is spot on. In my mind it even beats the Paul Newman range of marinades. The trouble with some of the marinades is that they taste synthetic and a bit fake, but the Weber BBQ Sauce tastes authentic and original.

Easy BBQ Chicken Recipe

The Weber BBQ Marinade was not only a quick and easy BBQ Recipe it is one of those recipes you can prep in a couple of mins and leave to marinade whilst chatting with friends and still taste amazing.

Everyone loved the chicken and I suspect that had we not admitted that it was out of a jar I could have claimed it was home made! I totally would have as well…

Kudos Weber, you have done it again…

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BBQ Tips for You

Us BBQ Grillers, we are under a heap of pressure! Getting the food ready, getting it cooked, knowing when it is cooked and making sure everyone gets fed without a trace of food-poisoning.

I thought I would answer the age old BBQ Question of

“When do I know when my BBQ Meat is cooked” be it BBQ Chicken, BBQ Sausages, BBQ Burgers, or even BBQ Steak.

So here is a little guide, nothing definitive so don’t be trying to sue me if things still go wrong

BBQ Chicken

If a chicken breast or alike, there is a good chance that it will have some form of marinade on it that will stop you being able to see if the juice coming out of it are running clear (sign of being cooked), so I usually cheat and cut into the thickest end of the chicken breast to see if it is pink or white inside. If white, it is ready! I keep the one I have cut into for myself so no one can see my sneaky handy work.

If a whole chicken or alike the chances are you will not have put a marinade on it so you can simply prick with a fork once the cooking time has elapsed and if the juice runs clear it is usually a sign that it is cooked.

Remember, you cannot eat raw or pink chicken!

BBQ Burgers

Some burgers are ok to eat with a teency bit of pink inside, especially if they are made from steak mince or alike. The better the quality of the mince the more chance there is that you can (once again) prick them with a fork and if the juice runs clear, they are done.

The teency bit of pink only works with steak/beef mince though remember.

BBQ Sausages

These can be a real pain in the bottom! I always find that the better quality pork sausages take a bit longer because of the higher meat content. I pretty much always end up cutting the end of one in half to look inside and make sure there are no pink bits left. Once again, I keep the one I have cut open for myself so that no one can see I have cheated.

BBQ Steak

Similar to burgers, prick with a fork and if the juice is clear, they are done. Remember though, some people like steaks to be rare so check first. If you see blood starting to rise to the top of the steak when cooking, that is usually a sign that they are medium and nearly done.

Hope this helps!

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Clim Tim and his Proper-Job BBQ Sausages

Having a BBQ site can have its up and its downs: the Ups; getting to try so many new BBQ Recipes, the Downs; that I quite often get asked to look after the BBQ when we go to friends or relatives.

Therefore, today at The Clims was a beautiful way to start off the first BBQ away session of the year as I was not called on for grilling duty.

We had some great veg and dips to start… very much the must-have beginning to every BBQ across the UK, and then went down the route of some great chicken skewers marinaded in a BBQ sauce.

If the chicken was good, well… The sausages that came from a local deli called “Farmhouse Butchers” in Gloucester were out of this world.

The humble sausage often gets overlooked at BBQ’s for being a bit dull and unadventurous but I find the only people who say this are those that have never ventured off the beaten track of supermarket bangers that are very hit and miss.

Even the higher quality supermarket sausages contain nowhere near the meat content, or quality of pork as many of the independent butchers and deli’s and I have lost count of the number of supermarket ones that come in such a thick skin that it feels like you are chewing on something made by Durex!

So, hats off to The Clims for putting sausages back on the BBQ menu by getting some quality bangers from Farmhouse Deli in Gloucester!

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Piri Piri Chicken

A good friend of ours gave us a brilliant BBQ Recipe Idea for Piri Piri Chicken Marinade. Having given it a good testing a few weeks ago we thought it was about time we shared.

BBQ Piri Piri Marinade is a brilliant Recipe idea and is not as hot as many people think. It has a sweet and fruity taste to it which we absolutely adored.

Ingredients Needed for the BBQ Piri Piri Chicken Marinade to serve 4:

4 tbsp Water

5 cloves Garlic (chopped)

5 Red Chillies (chopped, seeds left in)

1.5 tbsp vegetable oil

2 tbsp soft brown sugar

2 tbsp tomato puree

3 tbsp tomato sauce

2 tbsp fresh or dried Oregano

1 tbsp white wine vinegar

3 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

How to Make the BBQ Piri Piri Chicken Marinade

Step One – Put a saucepan on a medium heat and add the oil

Step Two – Lightly fry the chillies and garlic for a couple of minutes

Step Three – Add and mix in all the other ingredients

Step Four – Leave to cool (25-40 mins)

Step Five – Pour the BBQ Piri Piri Chicken Marinade into a sealable bag or container, and chuck in your chicken breasts and leave to marinate for at least one hour, or preferably overnight.

Step Six – Cook the chicken breasts as you would normally on your BBQ.

Have you tried the BBQ Piri Piri Chicken Marinade recipe, why not tell us your thoughts below. You can even send pictures in of your own Piri Piri Recipe to Andy@Petoba.com

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Having heard loads about how much better a whole chicken tastes if you flatten, or spatchcock it 0 as it is also known, I wanted to give it a try.

We covered ours in the BBQ Cajun Marinade Rub and it tasted incredibly moist and very nice indeed, well worth you giving it a try. The other benefit is that, similar to the BBQ Beer Can Up the Bum Chicken recipe, it is a great visual conversational point for your BBQ as well.

For this recipe you will need the following:

2 Wooden skewers

1 Medium to large chicken (depending on how many you are feeding)

1 Pair of sturdy kitchen scissors

Here is the Step-By-Step guide to flattening, (spatchcock) a whole chicken ready for your BBQ.

Step One – Wash Your hands

Step Two – Remove the chicken from the packaging, cut off the string binding it all together and lay on a chopping board (see pic below)

Step Two

Step Three – Turn the chicken over, so it is resting on the breasts and so the big hole is facing you and with some sturdy scissors, begin cutting alongside the backbone (in the imge below I have started by cutting on the right of the backbone). You will need to crunch through some of the bones, gruesome but worth it!

Step Three

Picture Three A, below, shows one side of the chicken backbone having been cut.

Step Three A

Step Four – Start cutting down the left hand side of the backbone, as you did on step three (but the other side!).

Step Four

Step Five – Remove the backbone, which you have now cut out.

Step Five

Step Six – Turn the chicken over, so the breast is now facing you (upwards). Then, using the heel of your palm, press down firnly on the chicken breast to flatten the chicken. You will hear the ribs of the chicken breaking, don’t worry, it is supposed to make this noise!

Step Seven – Now the chicken is flattened you need to secure it. Get some wooden skewers and push diagonally through the breast into the drumstick and out the other side. As shown in the picture below.

Step Seven

Step Eight – Once the skewers are in you are done. The chicken is now ready to be covered in your favourite marinade.

Step Eight

To cook the Spatchcock chicken place it on the grill of your BBQ on a moderate heat for roughly (based on the size of your bird) 15-20 mins per side.

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