I need an authentic Southern Barbecue menu?

Question

I'm from Maine and have no clue how to throw an authentic Southern Barbecue. If you know how, I'd value the help. For the meat, I'd prefer chicken over pork, though. Thanks!

Answer 1

This isn't BBQ like you think of BBQ (thick red burned sauce)

* Slow cook a chicken or two over wood on the grill or smoke them. You want the meat to shred, you're gonna strip it off the bone and serve it on a big plate. This is going to be eaten on buns like a burger. Don't sauce this meat! Big fryer birds work here pretty well, you're gonna cook it long and slow.

* Lexington BBQ Sauce - 1 1/2 cups cider vinegar, 1/2 cup tomato sauce (or kethcup), 1 teaspoon sea salt, 1/2 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper, 1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes, 1 tablespoon sugar; bring it to a boil and then reduce. Simmer until the sugar is dissolved and is smooth. Serve as a condiment. Best in a picnic bottle at room temp.

* Slaw -- not slaw like you know it up North. Red BBQ slaw. Find a recipe online for red BBQ slaw. Mine's a bit long for here. Served as a condiment, intended to go on the bun with the chicken or eaten with a fork. We usually eat white slaw with a fork and red slaw on the bun.

* Hush puppies -- frozen variety will work fine. No french fries.
* or... cornbread (baked in cast iron of course)

* Vegies - your choice. Black eyed peas, greens salad, baked beans, corn (with cob)

* Tea -- sweet, very sweet. Google for "Southern Sweet Tea" and find a good recipe. Served in tall glasses, iced. Lemon wedges are ok. I use 2 cups of sugar to the gallon but that's sweeter than most 'Yankees' can handle.

* Drinks - depends on where you are but straight Kentucky bourbon, mint julep, and southern comfort are traditional.

* Soda - RC Cola, Cheerwine, and Sundrop. I have no idea how to get those in other parts of the country.

* Desert - moonpie :-) of course.


now I'm hungry! Sure y'all wouldn't rather pit cook a pig?

Answer 2

First you need regular BBQ sauce (not honey BBQ Sauce or anything like that). I like Sweet Baby Rays Original. If you don't know much about BBQing you should probably do chicken or ribs. It is not that hard, just go to the store, buy the chickenbreast or rack of ribs and cook it on the grill. For chicken you should marinate it in the BBQ sauce for a half hour or more. Apply sauce during cooking. Some classic side dishes are beens, corn on the cob, and coleslaw. you should really get some Sweet Tea but you probably can't get it in Maine, or if you can it is not like real Sweet Tea from the South.

Answer 3

BBQ Chicken
Potato Salad
Grilled Corn on the Cob
BBQ Baked Beans

Grilled Pineapple for dessert
( slice a whole pineapple into circles and brush with butter and brown sugar and sit on grill for 2 mins on each side)

Answer 4

The way I do it is to rub the meat real good and have it at room temp
get some color on the meat by letting the direct fire hit the meat
I then move the meat to a cooler side of the smoker to let it cook indirect method. What I mean by cool side is around 325 degrees F. Get some color on the meat and move it to the side let it kick, and enjoy life.
have some mashed potato salad(mashed taters with mayo relish mustard and chopped boiled eggs and some cajun corn on the cob(crab/shrimp/seafood seasoning and lemon are added with salt to boil some new sweet corn on the cob and whole boiled okra,o yeah okra baby!!!
Make some killer pork and beans using barbeque sauce, brown sugar, and a dash of Liquid smoke my friend!!!!!!

Answer 5

Heres one that was cooked in TKAM i think. My grandma cooked these in the winter. I call it Green Grass a.k.a. Mustard greens. 12 bundles of Mustard Greens flour saltmeat onions rice You have to de-vain the mustard greens. ( take your fingers inbetween the big vains and pull the greens through). Rinse. Put the greens in a very big pot to boil in water on the stove. Prep your onions and salt meat. Once the greens are w/out water add half the pot more w/ water,add meat and onions. When it has just the bottom of water left add ya flour to take the wild taste out. Add some salt and pepper if needed. Cook dow untill the flour is completly mixed. Add some cooking ol if needed. The greens will cook down to almost nothing. They should look like cooked spinach and a creamy white sauce. Add some more water less than 1/2 the pot. Put some rice on to cook , when ready serve over rice. Vegetable Hobo Broccoli Cauliflower mushroom potatoes carrots one can of rotell diced tomotoes(origional) 2 cans of cheese sauce milk butter Take all your vegitable put them into a pan. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees f. Mix ya sauce w/ some milk to think it out. Put ya rotel,butter,vegi's in the pan cover with foil. Bake for 30 mins and stir it up. Let cook for another 30 mins. Let 5 mins to cool off . Serve

Answer 6

BBQ chicken, roasted corn on the cob, potato salad, and baked beans. Gallons of SWEET Tea to drink.

Sweet tea: Put Lipton tea bags in cold water, heat to boil, remove and cover for 15 min. Put 1 cup sugar for each gallon. Pour tea over sugar, add water.

Answer 7

country Pork ribs. Rice, Potato Salad, baked(Brown sugar) beans, corn, greens, and corn bread, bread pudding.
Western BBQ - Beef ribs or brisket slow cooked, potato salad, bbq Beans, bread and corn pudding.

Answer 8

do BBQ chicken
cold slaw
baked beans
corn bread
potato salad