Love's Wood Pit BBQ

[hardtop57]

For a long time,I've been looking for the BBQ sauce recipe from the no longer available "Love's Wood Pit BBQ Restaurant". Can any one help?

[Mqudee]

I would reccomend, that you start experimenting yourself ..

A good bbq-sauce must have sweet, sour, hot and spicy flavours.
I make my bbq-sauce from oil, balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, ketchup, hp-sauce, salt, chili powder, onion powder and dried herbs.
You could probably add garlic as well - I can't, I'm allergic

I don't really have set amounts of each ingredient, because basically it's all about what you like!
You might like more chili than me, or less lemon juice.

A few rules of thumb: steak shouldn't have too much acidity or salt, but can take more pepper/spice. Pork and chicken can be bbq'ed with a very tangy-hot-sweet, but always balanced sauce. Slices of turkeybreastfilet can even take a bbq-sauce, that's heavy on one of the flavours - very sour or very sweet, f.ex. - because they don't really much taste of their own.

The harder heat you cook over, the less oil you should have in your bbq-sauce - it'll drip onto the coals, and catch on fire, if the heat is high.

[hardtop57]

Thank you for your suggestions. I have experimented without much luck. The "Loves" sauce did have both Coriander and Cloves among other spices and was delicious IMO.

[Mqudee]

Originally Posted by hardtop57

Thank you for your suggestions. I have experimented without much luck. The "Loves" sauce did have both Coriander and Cloves among other spices and was delicious IMO.

I have a peppermill, that I have turned into my "secret" spicemix - it has peppercorns and cloves in it, as well as dried juniperberries, dried (organic) lemonpeel, laurel-leaves and allspice.
I quite often use that in BBQ-sauces, especially for pork - maybe some of those ingredients have made their way into Love's Wood Pit BBQ-sauce??

You know - the wood used for BBQ'ing can also add quite a destinct flavour. Maybe their secret is in the wood

[Kitchen Witch]

Here's one that I have - but it is not Love's Wood -

* 1 tbsp olive oil
* 1 onion, peeled and chopped
* 2 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
* 10 coriander seeds
* 10 peppercorns
* 1 clove
* 1 red chilli
* 2 tbsp brown sugar
* A small bottle of tomato ketchup
* 2 tbsp Soy sauce
* 1 tbsp cider vinegar



1. Heat the oil in a pan and add the coriander seeds, peppercorns and clove.
2. As soon as the coriander seeds start popping, use a spoon to lift them out and put them to one side.
3. Add the onion, garlic and chilli to the pan and fry very gently until extremely soft and the onions are golden brown.
4. Take the coriander seeds, peppercorns, clove, onion, garlic and chilli, add the soy sauce, vinegar and sugar and blend to a smooth puree.
5. Taste it - if it's bitter (this will happen if you've burnt the onion or garlic), add a little more sugar. It should be a little tangy and spicy - think sweet and sour.
6. Stir the puree into the ketchup well.