Healthy option BBQ

oldscoil

Hi Folks,

Anyone have any tips and recipes for a healthy (as you can be) BBQ.

I have looked on line a found a few "salad-up your BBQ!!", and that's fine but to quote HJS "you don't make friends with salad, you don't make friends with salad, etc."

I'm talking about meat and fish, damn tasty recipes, and filling portions.

Thanks in advance Folks,

B

thegreatiam

steak

Zombienosh

What's unhealthy about a bbq?

thegreatiam

Zombienosh wrote: »

What's unhealthy about a bbq?

15 bottles of bulmers

bluecherry74

BBQ is generally about as healthy as food comes as long as you're not eating cheap sausages and burgers! Steak, chicken pieces, salmon, lamb steak, king prawns, good quality burgers (homemade ideally) and good quality sausages from the butcher.

Stick to homemade marinades and sauces if at all possible. One easy marinade is to mix together 1 part soy sauce, 1 part honey and 1 part wholegrain or Dijon mustard. Add in a nice bit of black pepper and - optionally - a pinch of Chinese 5 spice or Cajun seasoning. This works well with chicken, beef or salmon, and it's also good on baby potatoes (boil the spuds first them add them to the bbq towards then end to char them a little).

If you want to include more veg that isn't salad, get one of those disposable foil trays. Chop up some courgette, peppers, onion and a couple of cloves of garlic. Toss the lot in oil, salt, pepper and herbs and cook on the bbq for 10 minutes or so, stirring every once in a while.

oldscoil

bluecherry74 wrote: »

BBQ is generally about as healthy as food comes as long as you're not eating cheap sausages and burgers! Steak, chicken pieces, salmon, lamb steak, king prawns, good quality burgers (homemade ideally) and good quality sausages from the butcher.

Stick to homemade marinades and sauces if at all possible. One easy marinade is to mix together 1 part soy sauce, 1 part honey and 1 part wholegrain or Dijon mustard. Add in a nice bit of black pepper and - optionally - a pinch of Chinese 5 spice or Cajun seasoning. This works well with chicken, beef or salmon, and it's also good on baby potatoes (boil the spuds first them add them to the bbq towards then end to char them a little).

If you want to include more veg that isn't salad, get one of those disposable foil trays. Chop up some courgette, peppers, onion and a couple of cloves of garlic. Toss the lot in oil, salt, pepper and herbs and cook on the bbq for 10 minutes or so, stirring every once in a while.

Thanks Folks, and thank you Blue Cherry.

Saturday BBQ on course!!

thegreatiam

The bbq I did last week was thus:

Steak marinaded for 24 hours:
marinade:
blitz 2 chilli peppers (i used habenero but you can use what ever you prefer), 4/5 garlic cloves, 1 inch of ginger and a cup of oil in a food processor, add salt and pepper. mix in 1/3 of a cup of vinegar (i used lime juice, but balsamic vinegar/cider vinegar or lemon juice would be ok too)
pour over the steak and pour over 1 can of coke. cover and place in the fridge for a day.

grill the steak on the BBQ til charred on the outside and pink in the middle, slice it up and serve with a little of the marinade as a sauce (one spoon or so should be enough)

Chop up 1 butternut squash, 1 large sweet potato into 1 inch chunks, mix with olive oil, salt pepper, chilli flakes, garlic. top with a hand full of pumpkin seeds and a sprinkle of cinnamon and cook for about 30 minutes at 200 degrees in the oven. You can also mix in honey.

I used the oven as I was using a portable bbq. If you have a full sized BBQ then wrap the squash and sweet potato in tin foil and bak on the coals for about 20 minutes. then remove from the heat chop them up, toss them in the oil/chilli garlic and pumpkin seeds and back into foil for a few more minutes on the grill. when the spud is softened its ready to eat.

oldscoil

thegreatiam wrote: »

The bbq I did last week was thus:

Steak marinaded for 24 hours:
marinade:
blitz 2 chilli peppers (i used habenero but you can use what ever you prefer), 4/5 garlic cloves, 1 inch of ginger and a cup of oil in a food processor, add salt and pepper. mix in 1/3 of a cup of vinegar (i used lime juice, but balsamic vinegar/cider vinegar or lemon juice would be ok too)
pour over the steak and pour over 1 can of coke. cover and place in the fridge for a day.

grill the steak on the BBQ til charred on the outside and pink in the middle, slice it up and serve with a little of the marinade as a sauce (one spoon or so should be enough)

Chop up 1 butternut squash, 1 large sweet potato into 1 inch chunks, mix with olive oil, salt pepper, chilli flakes, garlic. top with a hand full of pumpkin seeds and a sprinkle of cinnamon and cook for about 30 minutes at 200 degrees in the oven. You can also mix in honey.

I used the oven as I was using a portable bbq. If you have a full sized BBQ then wrap the squash and sweet potato in tin foil and bak on the coals for about 20 minutes. then remove from the heat chop them up, toss them in the oil/chilli garlic and pumpkin seeds and back into foil for a few more minutes on the grill. when the spud is softened its ready to eat.

WHOA!!! That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!!:D
Thanks thegreatiam

thegreatiam

what type of bbq do you have, cos ive an awesome recipe for chicken. but youll need a big BBQ with a lid.
or another for steak which will require a smoker. but will knock your socks off.

oldscoil

thegreatiam wrote: »

what type of bbq do you have, cos ive an awesome recipe for chicken. but youll need a big BBQ with a lid.
or another for steak which will require a smoker. but will knock your socks off.

Sweeeeeeeet, Thanks thegreatiam

I have one very similar to this from the good people at Grange Builders Providers in Baldoyle.

http://www.grange.ie/builders-providers/index.php?route=product/product&path=17591&product_id=916255

thegreatiam

should be big enough, bascally it needs to be big enough to stand a chicken up in it.

spicy beer can chicken.:
make a dry rub with your spices, you can use whatever you like but make sure to grind a hot pepper or two.

cinnamon
nutmeg,
spring onion,
onion,
garlic, lots,
salt
pepper,
thyme,
and 2 peppers, scotch bonnet or habenero or hotter.
cayenne powder

add all these to a food processor and blitz.

Take a whole chicken, clean it inside and out and pat it dry.
mix olive oil and lime juice together. (try a different combination of an oil and a vinegar for a different flavor)
rub the oil/juice over the chicken skin, get in all the creases. and massage it in good, lift the skin and get it under there too.

then rub the spice mix all over, get as much as you can to stick on.

once its coated drink half a can of beer. get a nice big can. then poke holes in the side, above the liquid, 4/5 holes will be enough.

then jam the beer can up the chicken.

you should be able to get the chicken to stand upright on the half-full beer can.

You need to stand it like this on your bbq, close the lid and get a smoke going. leave it cook in the smoke for around 1,5 hours.

don't even think about opening the BBQ until 1 hour has passed tho. leave it stand for an hour so it gets nice and smokey in there. then after the first hour you can check it.

the first check, make sure its sat right and the coals are still hot, close up the lid after.
second check at around 1 hour 20 minutes of cooking is to check the meat is done, jab it with a skewer and look for clear juices, or if you have a thermometer check it is around 70+ deg c all over, if its not close the lid and come back in 15 minutes and check again. do this until it reaches temp and the juices are clear.

once its done put it on a plate and tear into it.

the smoke of the BBQ gives it an unreal taste and the beer up it's arse help it stay moist. this is a great dish to show off if you have friends over and worth the effort and sacrifice of 1/2 a can of beer. (tho a real man would drink that can once the cookings done!)

and chicken is a very healthy meat too.

oldscoil

thegreatiam wrote: »

should be big enough, bascally it needs to be big enough to stand a chicken up in it.

spicy beer can chicken.:
make a dry rub with your spices, you can use whatever you like but make sure to grind a hot pepper or two.

cinnamon
nutmeg,
spring onion,
onion,
garlic, lots,
salt
pepper,
thyme,
and 2 peppers, scotch bonnet or habenero or hotter.
cayenne powder

add all these to a food processor and blitz.

Take a whole chicken, clean it inside and out and pat it dry.
mix olive oil and lime juice together. (try a different combination of an oil and a vinegar for a different flavor)
rub the oil/juice over the chicken skin, get in all the creases. and massage it in good, lift the skin and get it under there too.

then rub the spice mix all over, get as much as you can to stick on.

once its coated drink half a can of beer. get a nice big can. then poke holes in the side, above the liquid, 4/5 holes will be enough.

then jam the beer can up the chicken.

you should be able to get the chicken to stand upright on the half-full beer can.

You need to stand it like this on your bbq, close the lid and get a smoke going. leave it cook in the smoke for around 1,5 hours.

don't even think about opening the BBQ until 1 hour has passed tho. leave it stand for an hour so it gets nice and smokey in there. then after the first hour you can check it.

the first check, make sure its sat right and the coals are still hot, close up the lid after.
second check at around 1 hour 20 minutes of cooking is to check the meat is done, jab it with a skewer and look for clear juices, or if you have a thermometer check it is around 70+ deg c all over, if its not close the lid and come back in 15 minutes and check again. do this until it reaches temp and the juices are clear.

once its done put it on a plate and tear into it.

the smoke of the BBQ gives it an unreal taste and the beer up it's arse help it stay moist. this is a great dish to show off if you have friends over and worth the effort and sacrifice of 1/2 a can of beer. (tho a real man would drink that can once the cookings done!)

and chicken is a very healthy meat too.

Hahaaa fair play Bro, when I bought it was thinking "hmmmmmm I wonder if can do Beer Car Chicken on this thing?!?!"

One thing though, its a gas BBQ, hope it doesn't effect this

thegreatiam

oldscoil wrote: »

Hahaaa fair play Bro, when I bought it was thinking "hmmmmmm I wonder if can do Beer Car Chicken on this thing?!?!"

One thing though, its a gas BBQ, hope it doesn't effect this

yes, it will. although you can do beer can chicken in an oven. so id say go for it. besides you might not get another shot this summer.

the smoke makes it much, much better.

now be off with your sacrilegious BBQ Hank Hill and take your propane and propane accessories with you.