Royal Butcher Donald Russell

When the team from butcher to the royals, Donald Russell, got in touch adn said they had some perfect BBQ recipe marinade ideas for us we sat up and took notice.

To mark the launch of this seasons mail order butcher packages from royal warrant holder Donald Russell the team has also given us head chef Stefan Kolsch’s favourite BBQ Recipe marinades.

What is more, these are all really simple BBQ marinade ideas that take just a few minutes to prepare.

Simple Chinese BBQ Marinade:

1 tbsp sesame oil

1 tbsp Hoisin Sauce

1 tbsp Chinese 5-spice

2 tbsp rice wine or sherry

Simple BBQ Marinade

1 clove garlic crushed

1 tbsp lemon juice

1 tbsp olive oil

1 tbsp tomato ketchup

1 tbsp honey

1 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce

1 tsp Tobasco Sauce

Simple Honey Chilli Marinade

2 tbsp runny honey

2 tbsp light soy sauce

2 red chillies finely chopped

How to make

With each of the above recipes, just mix all the ingredients in a bowl and then rub over your meat and leave to marinade over night, or at least for one hour.

The Donald Russell mail order butcher packages are well worth ordering. This year there are 5 new mail order packages.

The first is the Carnivores BBQ Box, (intro price £37, normally £46.50) and includes:

2 Sirloin Steaks

2 Ribeye Steaks

4 Carnivores Gourmet Burgers

The second is the Meat Lovers BBQ (intro price £35, normally £45.95) and includes:

2 x Ribeye steaks

4 Lamb Loin chops

42 Pork Chops

4 Gourmet Burgers

6 Premium Pork Sausages

Thirdly we have the Mini BBQ Selection (Intro price £38, normal price £54.70)

4 Mini Beef Steaks

4 Mini Lamb Steaks

4 Pork Mini Steaks

12 Gourmet beef burgers

12 Lamb Burgers

12 Pork Burgers

6 Premium Pork Sausages

Fourthly there is the Mini Bangers and Burgers Box (intro price £13, Normally £19.05) that includes:

24 Pork Chipolates

4 Gourmet Steak Burgers

4 Lamb Burgers

4 Pork Burgers

Finally there is the Classic BBQ Box (intro price £29.00, Normally £38.50) and includes:

12 Premium pork sausages

8 Gourmet Steak Burgers

4 Minute Ribeye Steaks

How to make BBQ Sauce Recipe

If you are anything like us you will be sick of the synthetic texture of many of the BBQ sauces out there and would much prefer to create your own BBQ Sauce, so fear not, we have a Step by Step Barbecue Sauce Recipe.

What you will need

400ml Tommy Sauce (Tomato ketchup)

60g dark brown sugar

50ml dark soy sauce

4 cloves of crushed garlic

1 small onion finely chopped

1 red chilli finely chopped

pinch of salt, pepper and a few lugs of olive oil

How to make your BBQ Sauce Recipe

Step One - Chuck the garlic, sugar, chilli and onions in a frying pan and cook till the onion becomes almost see through

Step Two - Add the remaining ingredients and mix in well and bring everything to the boil

Hey presto - done!!!!

This is great for drowing your BBQ ribs or chicken or steak in. The perfect BBQ Sauce Dip as well!

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The annual New Year’s Eve BBQ successfully took place and once again the weather was kind.

This year we got some Sirloin Steaks and decided to marinade them in a Bourguignon Recipe slightly adapted for the BBQ.

Here is the recipe:

A few torn Bay Leaves

1 Tablespoon of Sage (fresh or out of the jar)

1 Tablespoon of pepper

1 Tablespoon of Tarragon (fresh or out of the jar)

500g of Shallots cut in half

300ml of Port

9 Cloves of chopped (and peeled of course) Garlic

75cl of red wine (cheap will do – no one notices)

Pop the bay leaves, red wine and port in a pan and bring to the boil. Once it has been bubbling away for a while and shrunk by about half in volume let the mixture cool and then add the rest of the ingredients.

Pop the steaks into a watertight bag and then once the gubbins in the pan has cooled, pour it into the bag with the steaks.

Tie the top of the bag so nothing can escape, give it all a shake and leave it to marinade overnight if possible.

Just before you are ready to pop this delicious recipe onto the sizzling grill, not forgetting to put your red wine flavoured smoking BBQ woodchips onto the coals earlier on, drain off the liquid, dab dry the steaks with a bit of kitchen roll and hey presto you are ready.

New Year’s Eve is always a really nice BBQ with friends aplenty and these steaks went down a treat.