Bobby Flay Dresses Up Store-Bought BBQ Sauce | BBQ Brawl | Food Network

All right everybody, so in this episode we got a taste of the contenders signature skewers and you know I just want to give you a couple tips on how to kind of really pump up the flavor there. I love putting in glazes or barbeque sauces or something along those lines especially when I'm grilling outdoors. You know you can obviously make your own sort of glaze or barbeque sauce but one of the things I like to do to cut out time is to buy a good quality barbeque sauce if you have a local barbeque sauce that you like in your hometown, obviously use that for sure. Barbeque sauce can be made with lots of different things. I'm talking about like the classic red tomato based barbeque sauce that you'll see a lot in stores. You know there's some vinegar in there, there's definitely something sweet, it could be brown sugar or maple syrup or honey, something along those lines, even some molasses and then it has different spices. But what I like to do is take the base of that sauce and bump it up with a couple of my own ingredients. So the barbeque sauce that you're going to get in your jar is already going to be cooked but I like to just bring it up to a simmer while I'm adding these other ingredients. Let's just say three ingredients, just a handful of ingredients because we don't want to embellish it too much, we just want to give it your own special touch. So I like to use Worcestershire sauce, this is something that we always have in our pantry, I promise you it's in there. And the thing I love about Worcestershire sauce is that it's tart. It has a tamarind flavor, it actually has anchovies in it, a lot of people don't know that. But it gives it that sort of umami flavor that I just love. So just a couple of dashes of Worcestershire sauce and then we're also going to take some chipotle puree. Now if you've watched Food Network at all you know that I love chipotle, they're smoked jalapenos. You can get them in a can, they're usually in something called an adobo sauce which is like a tomatoey vinegary sauce. So in this case it almost looks like the same color of the barbeque sauce but you're going to get a smokey and fiery flavor to it. It's not too hot but it's really going to pump up the flavor in a really nice smokey way and it's going to feel like you've smoked your barbeque sauce and that's a really good thing. So a little bit of chipotle puree and then just to sort of balance things out, I love to add a little bit of acid, there's a good chance there's probably some kind of vinegar in your barbeque sauce, whether it's white vinegar or some apple cider vinegar. But I love putting a little fresh lime juice, it just brightens up the sauce and cuts through the richness of it as well. And I just take like maybe half of a lime, put it in there, whisk this all up, let it come to a simmer and let it cook for like, I don't know, 10 to 15 minutes. A good idea is probably to cover your barbeque sauce because once it starts to simmer or starts to boil, it's going to start to pump and we don't want this all over your kitchen, we want to keep it in the pot. And there you go, a barbeque sauce that's all your own. Be sure to tune in to Barbeque Brawl for more tips, tricks and of course delicious barbeque.