Page 130 - Barbecue Chicken Made Easy
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Then, when properly impressed guests ask “What's your secret?” you can answer, as the pros do, “It's my rub, man.”
Makes. About 3 cups. Store the extra in a zipper bag or a jar with a tight lid at room temperature.
Takes. 15 minutes. 10 minutes to find everything and 5 minutes to dump them together.
Ingredients
3/4 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar 3/4 cup white sugar
1⁄2 cup paprika
1⁄4 cup garlic powder
2 tablespoons ground black pepper 2 tablespoons ground ginger powder 2 tablespoons onion powder
2 teaspoons rosemary powder
About the sugar. We appreciate that many of you feel the need to reduce sugar in your diets but sugar is in this recipe for more than flavor enhancement. It helps form the bark, an important part of the texture of the surface of chicken, ribs, and smoke roasted pork. The sugar mixes with the moisture and heat alters it, creating special unique flavors.
Let's do some math. Let's say you apply 1/2 teaspoon per side on a chicken breast, a total of 1 teaspoon seasoning. During cooking, some of it melts and drips off leaving, let’s say, 3/4 teaspoons. Of that at most 1⁄2 teaspoon is sugar. That makes the Glycemic Load about 1, while a slice of white bread is 10.
And for those of you who object to white sugar for non-dietary reasons, and use brown sugar instead, you need to know brown sugar is just white sugar with molasses added. It is not unrefined