Hot Smoke BBQ Recipes

On this page you will find a collection of Hot Smoke BBQ's easy barbecue recipes, along with proven recipes for meat-related fare such as dry rubs and marinades, glazing and mop sauces.

And although smoking meat is our priority, don't forget to check out the delicous recipes for smoking fish, grilling potatoes, tossing salads and other good stuff.

Meat and Fish

• Poultry Recipes

• Spare Ribs Recipes

• Pork Side and Ham Recipes

• Beef and Veal Recipes

• Lamb Recipes

• Fish Recipes

Salads, Potatoes, Rice and Veggies

• Potatoes on the Barbecue

• Salad and Salsa Recipes

• Beans Recipes

• Pasta Recipes to go with your barbecue meat or fish

• Rice Recipes

Dry Rubs, Marinades, Brines and Sauces

• Dry Rub Recipes

• Brine and Marinade Recipes

• Glazing and Mop Sauce Recipes

• Sauce and Gravy Recipes

Barbecue Party Drinks

• Hot Smokin' Cocktail Recipes

• Hot Smoke BBQ Longdrink Recipes

Hot Smoke - POULTRY RECIPES

For a typical Venezuelan taste, we first marinate these tender chicken thighs in a fragrant adobo, then grill them cowboy style until they are a nice and tender golden brown.

Like many Surinam people, my friend Eddy is a natural born cook. And he loves to grill! This Surinam Losie Foroe recipe (grilled chicken) is one of his favourites.

With this Guinea fowl recipe you will discover that you can barbecue or grill Guinea fowl just as easily as the ordinary chicken. Compared to chicken, Guinea fowl tastes more like game.

Just imagine you have to scrape your chicken from the highway after it's been hit by a couple of 18-wheelers and a white delivery van...
Pure Barbecue Magic !!!

Barbecue grilled chicken at its best. You should always buy the best chicken you can, but after hot smoking and indirect grilling, even the cheapest chicken will taste fantastic!

When on a Saturday in June 2005 the whole chickens were sold out, we entered into a new era. With Juanita's Smoked Chicken Legs we were heading for a long hot summer!

Since two years we barbecue a turkey on Christmas Eve. Besides being an active and original way to spend a beautiful evening, this barbecued turkey does taste absolutely fantastic as well!

Hot Smoke - SPARE RIBS RECIPES

By letting these pork ribs smoke slowly for a couple of hours the meat becomes real soft and makes for a delicious combination with the crispy texture of the honey mustard crust.

We first marinated these baby back ribs overnight in a Chinese / Cantonese Cha Siu marinade After 3 hours of smoking we started to apply the Cha Siu Glazing until they looked bright red and shining!

The Singapore Spare Ribs recipe that we use here at Blue Smoke BBQ is our own interpretation of the flavours and aromas of the Malay and Chinese streets of Singapore.

I love Babi Panggang and I love pork spare ribs, and that's how this recipe came into being. Babi Panggang is quite easy to make on the barbecue and is absolutely delicious.

Hot Smoke - PORK RECIPES

Try this North Carolina pulled pork recipe and discover how simplicity can lead to excellence.
And that hunk of meat will give you something to talk about (or to ;o) while sipping your beer!

By indirect grilling it is possible to cook a whole pork leg to perfection. You can do this even in your small and simple kettle grill. The result is 14 pounds of barbecue smoked whole porkleg, which tastes fantastic, and looks quite spectacular!

Blue Smoke BBQ Special: A Smoker's Diary - Whole Pork Leg

We first marinated these hocks for a few hours in a Chinese Char Siew Marinade, and during smoking we applied several thick layers of our Soy Honey Glazing until these Chinese barbecue pork hocks looked bright red and shining!

Porkside is the ideal cut of meat for a winter barbecue. Sliced on dark bread, this hot smoked porkside is an excellent companion for a rich pea soup or a savory bean soup.

Blue Smoke BBQ Special: A Smoker's Diary - Glazed Porkside

These barbecue pork shanks first had a spicy-sweet mustard dry rub rubbed in, and were then hot smoked for three hours on charcoal briquettes and chunks of oak.

Blue Smoke BBQ Special: A Smoker's Diary - Pork Shanks

We got this Indonesian Sweet and Sour Pork Recipe from the Indonesian mother-in-law of a friend, who always makes it in a saucepan, more like a stew. We adapted the recipe and changed it to Barbecue Babi Pangang.

In Surinam this pork roast is called Losie Agoe Metie. My friend Edgar traditionally makes it on Christmas Eve. In the true Surinam tradition, everybody who comes around has to taste it.   And Brada! - it tastes góód!

Hot Smoke - BEEF and VEAL

To make Roast Beef in your kettle grill is really quite easy. The combination of indirect grilling and hot smoking enables you to slow roast this whole Ribeye (or Cube Roll) to perfection without charring the outside.

These "low and slow" hot smoked and glazed Oriental Veal Ribs are spicy sweet and smoky. Even if veal ribs are much leaner than porkribs, and even if I cook them until they "fall off the bone", these slow food ribs will still be very tender and juicy.

You will discover that this satay recipe is quite easy to make, and the result is beautiful fragrant beef grilled on a stick. And then there is the spicy satay sauce!

Hot Smoke BBQ - LAMB RECIPES

Hot smoking lamb meat is easier than you thought. This easy lamb barbecue does not take too long, and the result is a beautiful piece of really spicy and juicy smoked lamb.

Hot Smoke BBQ - FISH RECIPES

With this hot smoked trout recipe you will discover that you can easily barbecue trout or any other whole fish on your Weber bbq without the skin sticking to the grill.

Hot Smoke - POTATOES on the Q

Once you have tried these smoke-grilled potatoes, you won't be able to resist making them every time you see some spare space on the grate...

These hot smoked stuffed potatoes take some time in preparation, but they taste great.

In addition to great taste, they also look wonderful on your barbecue plate.

Hot Smoke - Barbecue BEANS

This traditional and very savory Venezuelan Black Beans Recipe is a perfect companion for almost any Western style barbecue main course.

These West Texas Country Beans are a spicy sidedish that will go very well with any American barbecue or chuckwagon dinner.

Hot Smoke - DRY RUB RECIPES

Surprise friend and foe with a true American taste. This rub is suitable for all kinds of meat such as pork or lamb, but is especially tasty on chicken and Guinea fowl.

"Juancho's Mustard Rub #1" is one of our favourites for grilled chicken, Guinea fowl, barbecue lamb or hot smoked pork!

And as you might have thought, this mustard rub combines very well with Juancho's Honey Mustard Glazing.

This spices mix for barbecue pork is the result of trying something else for five or six times in a row until we were satisfied with the result.
            Discover that sweet-spicy-crispy crust!

The name of this yellow dry rub recipe refers to Amarillo, the town in the Texas Panhandle, along the famous Route 66. Cowboy country, and a very good place for barbecue beef!

The Brazos Beef Rub recipe is quite easy to make: salt and pepper, and a hint of Tex-Mex: garlic, paprika, rosemary and cummin.
While it was designed for beef, it is also great on lamb or mutton!

Hot Smoke - MARINADES & BRINES

An adobo is a spicy Latin marinade, mostly on the basis of freshly squeezed lemon or orange juice. We use this adobo recipe for marinating pork and to make Chicken Maracucho.

This beef marinade recipe is Juancho's own interpretation of the marinade used for the Korean barbeque beef named "Bool Kogi". We use it to make a nice and easy satay.

After a dive into this lovely Singapore Marinade, your grilled chicken, smoked leg of lamb or barbecue pork will have that unforgettable and irresistable Oriental flavour!

Brining and hot smoking is a perfect combination. In 2008 we developed this spicy brine and tried it on a couple of cuts of porkside, and everybody really loved the result!

Chinese Pork or Cantonese Barbecued Pork is also known as Cha Siu, Cha Sui, Cha Siew, Char Siu, Char Sui, Char Siew, Tsja Siew, Shao Siu, and a few more name variations - all meaning the same.

I got this Indonesian Sweet and Sour Marinade recipe from the Indonesian mother-in-law of a friend. You can use it to make a delicious Indonesian Sweet and Sour Pork or Chicken!

GLAZING and MOP SAUCES

After brushing a couple of times with this Singapore Glazing Sauce your barbecue chicken, grilled lamp chops or hot smoked pork will have a beautiful deep shiny skin.

Cha Siu is also named Shao Sui, Cha Siew, Tsja Siu, Char Siew, Tsja Siew, and a few more spelling variations. After a few applications of this Cantonese mop sauce your barbecue pork will look deep red and shining.

This honey-mustard glazing will leave a nice and shining finish on your bbq meat.

And in addition to good looks: nice extra taste and flavour as well!

This beer honey mustard glazing is ideal when you want a nice and shining finish on your barbecue meat. On top of that, it will add a wonderful malty and sweet flavour as well!

This Soy Honey Glazing Recipe is intended for Chinese barbecue. After a few applications of this mop sauce your barbecue chicken or Cantonese pork will look nice and shining.

Hot Smoke - BBQ SAUCE RECIPES

This traditional Eastern North Carolina BBQ sauce is intended to be served with chopped or pulled pork. While amazingly simple, this hot and sour mix has the potential to raise the dead...

We're not sure if the name "Korean Satay sauce" is really appropriate, but this Korean Bool Kogi inspired satay sauce is really easy to prepare and is absolutely delicious!

This soft and creamy white gravy with tarragon combines particularly well with the subtle taste of pork, veal and poultry, for example Blue Smoke BBQ's Brined and Smoked Turkey.

I got this Indonesian Sweet and Sour Sauce recipe from the Indonesian mother-in-law of a friend. You can use it for Indonesian Sweet and Sour Pork and Chicken.

After marinating your meat in the Indonesian Sweet and Sour Marinade, don't throw away the marinade - it's the best barbecue sauce you ever tasted! Collect the leftover liquid, onion, garlic and ginger in a saucepan and bring it to the boil a couple of times to sterilize.

RICE & PASTA RECIPES

This Nasi Goreng Kampung is a Malaysian Fried Rice Recipe which goes along very well with Asian barbeque like grilled satay, barbecue chicken or smoked spareribs.

This Malaysian Rice Dish is a wonderful companion for your Asian barbecue like grilled satay or roasted Oriental chicken.

This great pasta salad can be served with all kinds of barbecue, but can also be eaten as a vegetarian main course accompanied by bread and your favourite white wine.

Keep Smokin' !