Watermelon

Watermelon BBQ Sauce

Watermelon

Watermelon

Now this is something you won’t find anywhere on your grocery shelf.  A Watermelon BBQ Sauce!  I didn’t research to find out where this came from like some of the other recipes I have posted.  My grandmother used to make watermelon jelly and she’s from the south in Tennessee so this might have been from that region in the south, I don’t know.

 

Watermelon BBQ Sauce Recipe
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Recipe type: BBQ Sauce
Cuisine: BBQ
 

Ingredients
  • 1 cup (225 ml) dark corn syrup
  • ½ cup (125 ml) water
  • ¼ cup (60 ml) ketchup
  • ¼ cup (60 ml) distilled vinegar
  • ¾ tsp (4 ml) crushed red pepper flakes
  • ½ tsp (2 ml) liquid smoke
  • ¼ tsp (1 ml) black pepper
  • 4 pounds baby back ribs

Instructions
  1. Cut off the green skin and about half an inch of the hard white part, keeping the part of the watermelon that is lighter red to white.
  2. Stay away from the harder, white rind just inside the green skin.
  3. Put the rind into a food processor and puree for about only 10 seconds. Strain the liquid from the pulp and use one cup of pulp, measured after straining.
  4. Combine the pulp with remaining ingredients in a medium size saucepan over high heat.
  5. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer, covered, for about 1 hour or until it is as thick as you like.
  6. Cut racks of ribs into plate size portions, 6 to 7 bones per rack.
  7. Brush ribs with the sauce and wrap each rack individually in aluminum foil. Save some sauce for later.
  8. Let ribs marinate overnight.
  9. Preheat oven to 300 degrees (150 C.) F.
  10. Set the ribs with the seam of the foil facing up, into the oven.
  11. Bake for 2 to 21/2 hours or until tender.
  12. Remove ribs from foil, baste with sauce and grill over hot BBQ for 2 to 4 minutes per side, or until you see several spots of charred sauce.
  13. Serve with remaining sauce on the side.

 

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