{"id":23162,"date":"2015-08-31T09:59:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T09:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=23162"},"modified":"2015-08-31T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T09:59:51","slug":"recipe-braised-bbq-beef-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/recipe-braised-bbq-beef-sandwich\/","title":{"rendered":"[recipe] Braised BBQ Beef Sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bbq-braised-beef-sandwich.jpeg\" alt=\"bbq-braised-beef-sandwich\" width=\"406\" height=\"305\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One 3-pound chuck roast, rinsed and dried (also works well with brisket)<br \/>\n2 medium onions, chopped<br \/>\n1 Tbsp olive oil<br \/>\n1 large tin whole tomatoes (500g or more, preferably plum tomatoes)<br \/>\n600ml of your favorite homemade barbecue sauce<\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 300F\/150C.<\/p>\n<p>In a large, heavy pot, heat olive oil on medium heat. Add the onions and cook until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes, roughly chopping them in the pot. Add the barbecue sauce, increase heat to medium high and simmer for 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Add the chuck roast. Cover and put in oven. Braise until fork tender, about 3-4 hours. <\/p>\n<p>Remove the meat from the pot. Use a fork and knife to separate the roast into small pieces. Set aside.<\/p>\n<p>Place the pot on medium\/medium-high, uncovered, and reduce the liquid until thick. Stir often to prevent burning.<\/p>\n<p>Return the meat to the liquid in the pan. Warm both thoroughly. Add salt and pepper to taste.<\/p>\n<p>Serve on buns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BBQ sauce<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1\/4 cup vegetable oil<br \/>\n1\/4 cup butter<br \/>\n1 chopped chile pepper, such as a serrano<br \/>\n1 medium yellow or white onion, grated<br \/>\n1 cup bourbon or whiskey<br \/>\n1\/2 cup ketchup<br \/>\n1\/2 cup lemon juice<br \/>\n1\/2 cup apple cider vinegar<br \/>\n1\/3 cup dark molasses<br \/>\n2-3 tablespoons brown sugar<br \/>\nSalt to taste<\/p>\n<p>1 Heat the butter and oil in a sauce pan over medium-high heat.<br \/>\n2 Grate the onion through the coarse grate of a box grater, or finely mince the onion if you don&#8217;t have a grater.<br \/>\n3 Add grated onion and chile to the oil\/butter combination and cook over medium heat for 3-4 minutes, or until onions turn translucent. You do not want the onions to turn color.<br \/>\n4 Take the pan off the heat and add the bourbon. Return to the stove, turn up the heat to medium-high again and boil down the bourbon for 5 minutes.<br \/>\n5 Add the ketchup, lemon juice, vinegar, molasses, and the sugar. Mix well and return to a simmer.<br \/>\n6 Cook the sauce for a few minutes to combine the flavors and then taste test it. Is it salty enough? If not, add salt. Is it spicy hot enough? If not, add a little cayenne powder. Is it sweet enough? If not, add some molasses.<br \/>\n7 Let the sauce cook down slowly until it thickens, about 20 minutes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One 3-pound chuck roast, rinsed and dried (also works well with brisket) 2 medium onions, chopped 1 Tbsp olive oil 1 large tin whole tomatoes (500g or more, preferably plum tomatoes) 600ml of your favorite homemade barbecue sauce Preheat oven to 300F\/150C. In a large, heavy pot, heat olive oil on medium heat. Add the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/recipe-braised-bbq-beef-sandwich\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;[recipe] Braised BBQ Beef Sandwich&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[217,22],"class_list":["post-23162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbq","tag-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-61A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23164,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions\/23164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}