BBQ Ground Turkey!

Have you ever thought of making your own barbecue sauce? It’s really not difficult and it’s better than the store-bought! You can adjust this recipe to your tastes if you like your sauce sweeter, hotter, or more vinegary, but this is a nice balanced barbecue sauce. One of my favorite ways to use it is on cooked ground turkey. You can use ground beef too, but I actually like this better with turkey. You can eat this on a roll, over rice (regular or cauliflower), with mashed potatoes, or just on its own. The sauce recipe makes enough to coat a pound of ground meat with sauce – if you need more, the recipe can easily be doubled. Even people who think they don’t like ground turkey like this!

It’s a nice barbecue sauce for pork, ribs, or chicken too. Like any sweet barbecue sauce, it shouldn’t be put on the meat until the meat is cooked to prevent burning.

You can make this for a party (maybe this Sunday?) and keep it warm in a crockpot on the “keep warm” setting. I would recommend making a double batch of the sauce if you’re going to do that.

Barbecue Ground Turkey

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Servings: 4

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: American

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

• 1 pound ground turkey or ground beef
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Barbecue Sauce

• 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
• 1 medium onion, finely diced
• 1/4 cup diced canned tomatoes with juice
• 1/2 cup juice from tomatoes
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 3 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
• 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• dash hot sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• ground pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon onion powder

Method

 

1. Heat one tablespoon vegetable oil in frying pan over medium-high heat
2. Add ground turkey to frying pan and cook, breaking up with spoon, until browned and completely cooked through.
3. Finely dice one medium onion.
4. Heat 2 teaspoons vegetable oil in saucepan over medium heat.
5. Add diced onion and cook for five minutes or until translucent.
6. Reduce heat to low.
7. Add tomatoes, tomato juice, ketchup, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion powder.
   
8. Cook on low heat for ten minutes, stirring often.
9. Pour sauce over ground turkey, stir well to coat turkey, and serve.