Interesting BBQ sauce

I did chicken wings on the grill tonight along with pineapple wedges and basted everything with this sauce. Talk about good. Its got a little heat but not a scorcher. Its easy to make.

3 – 6 ounce cans of pineapple juice
1/2 cup of white sugar
1/4 cup light brown sugar packed
1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup of Ketchup
2 tablespoons of grated fresh ginger
4 cloves of garlic put thru a press
2 teaspoons of garlic chili paste or sauce….this is the heat. You can add more for more heat or use sweet chili garlic sauce to get rid of the hot

Combine everything in a sauce pan and simmer, stirring frequently, until this is reduced to about a cup.

Pork chops or a slab of ribs will be next to get lathered up with this sauce

I’ve made plenty of BBQ variants with soysauce, but never pineapple juice or ginger. My wife loves the taste of ginger in just about anything, this will have to be my next batch! Doing smoked pork chops this weekend, I’ll finish them off with this.

I like ginger and I love pineapple. When I saw this recipe I told Carole we were having it with the wings I’d set out to thaw. Eye roll from her as Carole is NOT a ginger fan. Finished, this recipe is not super ginger tasting even though I grated up a whole thumb of ginger that made up about 4 tablespoons of it. The chili-garlic sauce is what made this sauce turn the corner with the pineapple juice. It adds just a smidge of heat right away but doesn’t scald you or stay hanging there for five minutes. Call it a sweet heat. Everything used comes together real nice and the sauce is super at the table. Carole ate five big wings and two large pineapple wedges basted with it and almost went in for seconds, but dessert was looming, so….

This sauce is nothing like the smoky, bitey BBQ sauces that so many load ribs and brisket up with. I tried it cold on a chunk of cold pork roast for a little sumptin this morning and wish I’d have had more roast. Ribs are scheduled to the weekend. Guess what sauce?