Booyah Bayou Barbecue Marinade
- 9 cups cider vinegar, keep the rest handy
- 5 cups brown sugar
- 1 cup salt
- 1 cup seasoning salt
- 3 tablespoons cajun spices
- 4 tablespoons garlic powder
- 2 medium onions, peeled and pureed
- 2 tablespoons yellow mustard
- 3 tablespoons ketchup (or catsup)
- 5 ounces sweet Hungarian paprika
- 4 tablespoons crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 14 cups vegetable oil
- Dump the vinegar in a huge mixing bowl.
- Open a Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer (or Natural Light, if there happens to be one around, or whatever tickles your fancy.
- Non-drinkers can have a Coke).
- Drink the beer (or Coke).
- add the brown sugar.
- add the onions.
- add the ketchup.
- add the mustard add the vegetable oil.
- in a separate, smaller bowl, add the blackening spice, the seasoning salt, the salt, and the crushed red pepper flakes.
- Mix them until blended, and add them to the vinegar mixture.
- whisk it all together for a while and drink another beer (or Coke).
- Or two.
- Just stir it.
- Get a pretty damned big stock pot out.
- Put it on the stove.
- Dump the mixture into the stock pot, put it on high until just starts to bubble, maybe 5 minutes.
- Rinse the bowl out with additional, vinegar to make sure you get it all.
- Once it starts simmering, turn it down to low and stir it until the sugar is dissolved.
- Taste it, and adjust it to suit you.
- Use as a barbecue sauce, a marinade, mopping sauce, or whatever.
- It is supposed to be hot AND spicy.
- Adjust the crushed red pepper flakes to taste or to your own good sense, if you don't like things like this to be TOO hot.
- I like it to make me break a sweat.
- In its honest mix, it is as much flavor as it is heat, and balances on the smoker or grill really well.
- If you are smoking your meat pile, marinade your meat for a minimum of three days.
- It goes fine with Hickory or Mesquite, I am sure its good with Apple or Alder, but I haven't tried them.
cider vinegar, brown sugar, salt, salt, cajun spices, garlic powder, onions, yellow mustard, ketchup, sweet hungarian paprika, red pepper, vegetable oil
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/booyah-bayou-barbecue-marinade-316371 (may not work)