The Healthy Alternatives to Marinades - Flavoured BBQ Skewers

Feb. 23, 2012 - PRLog -- It is difficult or maybe impossible to get the same result or even similar, from a liquid marinade. Most liquid marinades sit on the surface of food and will lose much of their impact (flavour!) during cooking when all of the flavour and taste will evaporate or burn - especially sugar based marinades. Most marinades contain some sugars and oil and are therefore prone to charring. This introduces what is called trans-fats as a health challenge.

The solution - Bar-B Skews™ , the only flavoured BBQ skewer and are near zero fat (the healthy alternative to marinades) and offer a really clean, all natural flavour, marinating from the inside out - activated by heat.

The Skews™ can be used in any meats as kebabs or when roasting meats but there are some guidelines which can improve the result:

Use good quality meats as cooking times are less.
A little fat in red meats helps absorb the flavours and some will melt away during cooking, particularly the marbling in muscle.
We recommend using the Chinese trick of lightly dusting lean meat, chicken breast fillet and calamari with flour before cooking as this seals in the moisture and keeps the protein juicy.
You can also use potato, corn, arrowroot, buckwheat or rice flour and even try more coarse flours such as polenta for a little extra textural crunch from the crust which forms.

Vegetables are perfect - they really take to some of the flavours eg chilli and garlic and you’ll be amazed at how chilli hot zucchini or par-boiled pumpkin will get or how well they pick up the Wild Pepper or Paperbark Smoke flavours.

Kebabs on Skews™ can be cooked on the barbecue hot plate (finish over the grill if you want some flame finish), in a pan or in the oven but meats need to be cooked more than blue to rare for the heat to activate the flavours. If you like your meat barely cooked then skewer the meat onto the Skews™ so that the wood is very close to the surface and place this down on the heat first and foremost. This is the recommended use of the Spanish Rosemary Skews™ used with lamb kebabs or if grilling fish which is best done rare in the middle eg salmon.

Skews can be used in large joints of meats such as legs of lamb, rolls of beef, whole bird or poultry pieces and whole fish can be ‘Skewed’ and oven-baked. Again, pierce the Skews™ through the meat keeping them about 1cm from the surface and use 1 Skew per 350g of meat.

Bar-B Skews™ can also be used pushed through whole steaks, sausages (particularly good) and mince  shaped around the Skews™ like a kofta or sheesh kebab or as meatballs.

Bar-B Skews™ BBQ Skewers are packed in a zip seal, barrier sleeve to protect the flavours and this is particularly useful to store un-used Skews™ perfectly fresh.

Additionally, the forests producing the timber from which Skews™ are made are grown under sustainable forestry management practices so we will have this resource for centuries to come.

A great concept that really works.

For more details visit http://www.gardengiftshop.co.uk/acatalog/Bar_B_Skews.html

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