A good kebab needs proper accompaniment. If everything is more or less clear with the side dish (usually fresh vegetables and herbs), then sauces often raise questions. The easiest way to solve them is to buy at a store. For those who are not looking for easy ways, there are three absolutely win-win recipes for barbecue sauces.
How to make barbecue sauce
The general principle of cooking is that everything should be in moderation. You shouldn't try to make this sauce as hot or too concentrated. Remember that it should sound like a "second violin", in no way interfering with the "first party" - in fact, the shish kebab.
Another important point in the preparation of kebab sauce is its thickness. The consistency of sour cream is considered ideal - i.e. when, when dipping a piece of meat, the sauce does not drip from it. Achieving this thickness without the use of starch or other thickeners is not an easy task. But if you want to enjoy healthy food, it is better to make kebab sauce without them.
Tomato sauce for barbecue
Ingredients you will need:
- 1 kg of tomatoes;
- 400 g sweet pepper;
- 300 g of onions;
- 50 g of vegetable oil;
- 50 g of cilantro;
- 30 g of garlic;
- 6 g of salt;
- 2 g of hot red ground pepper;
- 2 g of crushed allspice.
Cooking tomato sauce for barbecue
Pour boiling water over the tomatoes and immediately place them in a container of ice water. When preparing tomato sauce for kebabs, this is the easiest and fastest way to peel them off. Grease the pepper with vegetable oil, salt and bake in the oven until soft. Remove the peel and stalk from the pepper (if you want to make a more savory tomato sauce, you can leave the seed nest). Grind with tomatoes, chopped onions, spices and remaining oil in a blender. Boil the sauce to the kebab to the desired thickness. Season with chopped cilantro.
Sweet and sour sauce for barbecue
Ingredients you will need:
- 300 g of tomatoes;
- 300 g plum jam;
- 300 g of onions;
- 150 g lemons;
- 100 g of vegetable oil;
- 4 g of salt;
- 4 g fresh ginger;
- 2 g star anise;
- 2 g of ground cinnamon;
- 1 g of ground cloves;
- 1 g of crushed peppercorns.
Cooking sweet and sour sauce for barbecue
Peel the tomatoes as described in the tomato sauce recipe. Bake the peeled and chopped onion and season with salt and chopped cloves. Process together with the tomatoes with a blender, add vegetable oil, spices and lemon juice. Boil the mass of the future sauce to half the original volume, and then combine with plum jam. Keep on fire for about 10 minutes. If the sweet and sour sauce for the kebab is very thick, pour in a little boiled water. Excessive sweetness of the jam can be easily compensated by adding a little more lemon juice.
Garlic sauce for barbecue
Ingredients you will need:
- 500 g of garlic;
- 200 g of onions;
- 200 g of 20% cream;
- 200 g of dill;
- 10 g ground sweet paprika;
- 5 g of salt;
- 3 g of crushed peppercorns.
Preparing garlic sauce for kebabs
Peel the garlic and onion, chop and simmer together with the spices in the cream. Chop the dill, grind in a mortar, add to the cooled creamy garlic mass. Process the garlic sauce for the kebab with a blender and pass through a sieve. It is desirable that it reaches homogeneity. Professional chefs believe that all sauces with the addition of cream should have a kind of slightly flowing silky texture.
