Nous ici à la zone chaude en ligne vraiment comme voir le « petit type » réussissons aux affaires chaudes et épicées de nourriture. Peut-être nous devons changer cela pour inclure la « petite dame » aussi bien.

Il y a une certaine heure, nous avons été contactés par Mia de Barbecue et épices gastronomes limite au sujet d'essayer leurs produits. Il semble comme s'elle a une petite entreprise qui s'est juste ouverte en juillet de l'année dernière faisant les sauces épicées à BBQ, qui ont évolué d'une recette qu'elle avait faite à la maison pendant une tout à fait certaine heure. Cette sauce, Sauce et marinade à Habanero, est une des deux variétés que le gourmet limite actuellement doit offrir. N'étant jamais ceux pour tourner vers le bas une chance d'essayer une bonne sauce épicée à BBQ, nous avons aimablement accepté l'offre de Mia.

La bouteille elle-même est un twelve-ouncer avec une étiquette métallique glacée. Il regarde le genre de chic et d'élégant, tout en maintenant une certaine simplicité aussi bien. En fait, l'éclat métallique a rendu réellement lui dur à la photographie… mais seulement à nous des bloggers de nourriture passer le temps essayant de trouver des moyens à la photographie leur nourriture. Cette sauce a ceci dans elle :

Ingrédients : water, tomato concentrate (water, tomato paste), corn syrup, vinegar, onions, red wine vinegar, white vinegar, liquid smoke, habanero peppers, Worcestershire sauce (white vinegar, molasses, corn syrup, spices, anchovy paste, natural flavor [contains soy], tamarind), brown sugar, mustard, lemon juice, salt, garlic, cumin, soy sauce, jalapeno peppers, chile arbol, black pepper, onion powder, and spices

Not a bad list for the most part, but we were struck by the fact that this sauce has not one, but three, kinds of vinegar in it. The taste would reveal how well that works with this sauce, but it was noteworthy from reading the label. The aroma is blissfully free of a strong vinegary smell, and has an aroma mostly of tomato and liquid smoke. The sauce is quite thin, more so than most BBQ sauces we’ve reviewed, and pours a little too easily from the wide-mouthed bottle.

Taste: The straight taste revealed a strong, vinegar-dominated flavor. In fact, this sauce is downright tart with vinegar…but has spicing which is rich in habanero and balck pepper flavor. Few people eat BBQ sauce straight out of the bottle, so we decided that the best use would be with some BBQ chicken. Our home cooking with BBQ sauce is pretty straightforward, so we decided to keep this simplicity going and use this sauce to make some BBQ chicken breasts in our oven.

With a few boneless, skinless chicken breasts, we added a little pepper & garlic salt spice mix to the chicken and pressed it onto the breasts like a rub on both sides. Making some slits in the breasts with a knife, we wanted the sauce to cook into the chicken. We also heated our oven to 375 degrees and cracked open the bottle of sauce.

We then gently poured some of the sauce over the chicken breasts. Now we didn’t want the chicken to essentially get parboiled in BBQ sauce, so we used just enough so it would bake into the chicken. After about 25 minutes at 375 degrees, we then added a little more since the sauce’s liquidity does get cooked out over time. After use of half the bottle and about 40 minutes of cook time, our chicken was done and ready to serve.

Now that’s some good-looking BBQ chicken!! You can even see the pepper seeds still sitting within the sauce over the chicken. As for the taste, it was absolutely outstanding. The cooking process mellowed out the vinegar and really helped the BBQ flavor come through, and even with some habanero heat and flavor. In fact, this was surprisingly spicier than expected, and caused Linda to refill her water glass more than once during her dinner. As for me, I loved the heat and thought it was a great addition to the chicken and certainly easy to make this dish. In fact, the leftover chicken was as good the next day as it had been for dinner when it was originally made.

Overall recommendation: One thing that we both commented upon when we tried this sauce was that it seemed more like a marinade than as a BBQ sauce. Whether it was the thinner consistency or the vinegary taste, we both could easily see this sauce performing well as a marinade for meat, veggies, or whatever you like. Heck, we’d mix it with a little bit of olive oil and use it as habanero salad dressing as well. As for the BBQ, it’s a sauce that you’ll like lovingly slathered over whatever you cook…whether it’s in your oven or on your grill. This sauce is a promising start for Borderline Gourmet, and we look forward to our next review of their sauces as well. Try it for yourself and see what you think. Enjoy!

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