Chinese Barbecue Recipes
The warm weather is here - time to fire up the backyard barbecue and pack picnic lunches for weekend hikes. Looking for an alternative to the traditional hamburgers and three bean salad? How about adding an Asian influence to your next outdoor party? Below are Chinese barbecue recipes for everything from whipping up a batch of hamburgers with Oriental seasonings to spicing up your grilled meats with a Chinese barbecue sauce, mixing together flavorful ingredients such as hoisin sauce and sesame oil.
You can also
spice up side dishes. Cold spicy Szechuan sesame noodles go well with grilled or barbecued
meats. Chicken wings can be marinated with five-spice powder before being tossed
on the grill. Of course, no outdoor gathering would be complete without potato salad: how about
a Chinese potato salad with a a dash of hot mustard powder to spice up the
mayonnaise sauce? Or a Chinese potato salad with a tangy rice vinegar
dressing?
Here are recipes that will help
make your next barbecue or picnic a success, along with a few general resources
about barbecuing:
Chinese
Barbecue Recipes
Chicken Wings
Chicken Wings with Oyster Sauce - A quick and easy
to make recipe in which the chicken wings are marinated and baked.
Chinese Chicken Wings - A recipe for the grill made with five-spice powder.
Hoisin Sauce Chicken Wings - Both hoisin and oyster sauce are used in the
marinade for this baked chicken wings recipe.
More Chicken
Wing Recipes - A number of chicken wing recipes, from sweet and sour to
mandarin.
Barbecue
Chicken Drummies - chicken drummies are slow cooked in a barbecue sauce,
chile sauce, honey and garlic.
Spareribs
Barbecued Spareribs - Hoisin sauce and sherry are two ingredients in the marinade for these ribs, which are
baked and
brushed with honey.
Bernie's Oriental Ribs - A flavorful rib recipe
from a restaurant in the Catskills.
Hawaiian Luau Barbecued Beef Ribs
- Grilled beef short ribs with a spicy
marinade - another recipe from the winner of the 1980 Nevada State Chili Contest.
Honey Garlic Spareribs - A combination of hoisin sauce, honey and garlic gives these ribs an unusual flavor.
Dry Garlic Spareribs - Ribs simmered in brown
sugar, mustard and other seasonings.
Spicy Salt and Pepper Spareribs - Spicy salt and
pepper mix lends flavor to deep-fried spareribs.
Spareribs with Black Bean Sauce - Stir-fried
spareribs are simmered in a flavorful mixture of fermented black beans, chilies,
soy sauce and brown sugar.
Sauces:
Chinese Barbecue Sauce - This is the same basic sauce used to make Chinese barbecued pork.
Chinese Red Marinade - with chili sauce and five-spice powder
Side Dishes:
Cold Sesame Noodles - Vegetables and pasta
topped with a tart vinegar and sesame sauce.
Chinese
Potato Salad - Chile paste and sesame oil liven up a rice vinegar dressing.
Chinese
potato salad
- Not your usual potato salad, this one has a wicked mayonnaise sauce made with
hot mustard powder, sesame oil and sugar.00
Chinese
Coleslaw - Velvety red cabbage and emerald green bok choy, topped with a
tart rice vinegar dressing.
Egg Rolls
- filled with barbecued pork, vegetables and seasonings
Chicken
Egg Rolls - with red bell pepper and an oyster sauce gravy
Szechuan
Noodles - Egg noodles topped with a spicy dressing. This would go very
nicely with Korean bulgogi (see under Main dishes). Italian pasta can be
substituted for the egg noodles.
Main Dishes:
Five-spice Chicken - Chicken thighs are marinated in a soy sauce-based marinade with five-spice powder, fresh ginger and other seasonings.
Grilled Beef
Teriyaki - Beef is marinated in pineapple, brown sugar and soy sauce and
grilled in this easy to make recipe.
Beef Satay - a Chinese version of satay, with beef
marinated in hoisin and seasonings before being threaded onto bamboo skewers and
grilled.
Bulgogi - Korean sesame
steak.
Lamb
and Chile Grill - something a little different - lamb cubes are marinated
overnight in a spicy marinade with chiles and crushed Szechuan peppercorns, and
grilled.
Lemony Chicken for the Grill - although this is a Vietnamese recipe, the ingredients are mostly the same as those found in Chinese lemon chicken, with the addition of a bit of fish sauce in the mariande.
More Grilled Lemon Chicken - With a flavorful marinade with red wine vinegar, fresh cilantro and other seasonings.
Grilled Ginger Chicken - feel free to reserve extra marinade and use as a dressing for a simple green salad to serve with the chicken.
Marinated Ginger Chicken for the Grill - Grated fresh ginger adds an extra kick to this flavorful marinade, which does double duty as a basting sauce while the chicken thighs are grilling.
Oriental Burgers - Ground Pork seasoned with soy sauce and garlic, topped
with hoisin sauce, cilantro and bean sprouts.
Preparing
a Vegetarian Grill - grilling ideas for vegetarians
Grilled Pork Tenderloin - Pork is marinated overnight in soy sauce, ginger and other
seasonings, then grilled and topped with reserved marinade.
More Resources:
Grilling 101
- Basic tips on getting started, from About's Guide to Barbecues and Grilling.
The History
of Barbecue - Another feature by About's Barbecues and Grilling Guide exploring
the world of barbecued meats - from the first time meat was thrown on an open
flame to the advent of today's 40,000 BTU grills.
|
What's In a Name? |
| There is a strong
indication that the word "barbecue" comes from the Spanish
word barbacoa which is derived from an American Indian word for
the framework of green wood on which meat or fish was cooked over a pit
of coals. Others believe that the French should be credited - when
Caribbean pirates came stateside, they roasted animals barbe-a-queue,
head to tail, so to speak. (Source: Finger Lickin' Rib Stickin' Great Tastin' Barbecue by Jane Butel) |
