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Vinegar Barbecue Sauce Recipe – Try it when you grill chicken pieces.

Make grilling a daily event during pleasant temperatures. Sometimes it is just too hot and humid to enjoy a meal outside but it does not prevent us from using the grill to prepare an entire meal – then eat in air conditioned comfort.

Truth be told, we fire up the grill even when it snows.

In a hurry? Bet you will find your new favorite among these ketchup and vinegar based barbecue sauces I’m having a blast checking the coupons

How about grilled chicken breasts bastedwitha vinegar barbecue sauce recipe, served with grilled vegetables, a pilaf, couscous or seasoned rice with grilled peaches and vanilla ice cream? Interested in more menu ideas? You’re invited to jointhe Food Crafting tribe!

Our Vinegar Barbecue Sauce Recipe

This recipe comes from the kitchen of a very special lady…my mother-in-law Margaret.

Newly arrived in the U.S., it was one of the first BBQ sauces I tasted on what was a favorite family meal: chicken (straight from the farmer’s market) slow grilled over charcoal.

Must admit I found it odd to be basting chicken with oil over hot coals but the resulting semi sweet glaze is quite special.

Closing in on fiftyyears later, I still make her original recipe, still use it and still love it as much as when she prepared it herself.

The sauce starts like a typical eastern Northern Carolina concoction but you’ll notice that there is no ketchup involved, no cayenne or red pepper flakes or anything as foreign as Worcestershire sauce.

That’s because it’s pure central Pennsylvania!

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It’s Not Like They Don’t Know BBQ In Pennsylvania!

They do. Some of the apple butter based barbecue sauces may not work for Carolina connaiseursbut have you ever had wings at Quaker State and Lube?

Seriously, to be rewarded with scrumptious grilled chicken, prepare for slow grilling. Place the rack at the highest level or over low gas heat.

Here is a selection of bottled barbecue sauces some of us may be familiar with – the Yuengling is thick and not too spicy and Famous Dave’s is not bad tasting at all if you like Texas Pit.

Now I know what readers are going to say about that sauce but you should try it anyway.

After all you are going to rub it all over…a pig’s ribs. How could I resist not including it in the listing? 🙂

Have Your Tried These Sauces?

To some members of this family, the recipe above is our Granny’s BBQ sauce – always fresh, never bottled. Looks like someone else bottled their granny’s sauce.

Everyone has their favorite barbecue sauce. The DH likes the Weber® brand. For years, we were all fine with Kraft® Open Pit.

I must tell the truth about barbecue sauce bottled or in jar.

My personal favorite is not pictured here. I used to drive southto the nearest Southern Season® store in North Carolina to stock up on Bone Suckin’ Sauce.

When it comes to grilled chicken breasts and vinegar barbecue sauce recipes here is another recipe I adapted to use vinegar. I found myself without any lemons in the house.

Pound the chicken breasts to get a uniform thickness that makes it easy to cook meat evenly. It works well on whole chickens.

Try Vinegar Barbecue Sauce Another Way!

Here is another way to prepare grilled chicken. Wings, thighs, drumsticks and breasts benefit greatly from a little dab of this sauce.

• 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard (please don’t use French’s yellow mustard)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice or vinegar (when there is not a lemon in the house)
• Oneteaspoon Worcestershire sauce (you can also use the white Worcestershire sauce which is lighter in taste and specially created for chicken)
• One teaspoon minced garlic (to taste really)
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper (my preference is for the multi color pepper corns)
• 4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
• 4 servings

Stretch Your Chicken Dollar!

To stretch your chicken dollar, you can slice a large breasts crosswise (butterfly them) to make two and then pound lightly. Now serves 8!

• Mix mustard, with lemon juice/vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, garlic.
• Season to taste with pepper.
• Spread evenly over chicken pieces and allow to “marinate”.

Cover and place in fridge until ready to cook or allow to marinate at room temperature if you plan on firing up the grill within the next 30 minutes.

I tore the recipe out of an old magazine years ago. It is aneasy basic recipethat canbetweaked a 101 different ways.

Although the grilled flavor is scrumptious, you can also cook thechicken whole, in a regular oven or even a toaster oven.

Enjoy making the best grilled chicken using Margaret’s vinegar barbecue sauce recipe and fun watching a Frenchman tackle tomato based BBQ sauce!

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