Pineapple Barbecue Sauce

Name: Pineapple Barbecue Sauce
Yield: Makes About 2 Cups
Ingredients: ⅓ cup dark brown sugar, or more to taste; ¼ cup distilled white vinegar; 1 cup finely diced fresh or canned pineapple; ¼ cup dark rum, or more to taste; 2 cups pineapple juice, or more as needed; 1 cup finely diced fresh or canned pineapple; 2 teaspoons minced peeled fresh ginger; 1 to 2 Scotch bonnet chiles, seeded and minced; 1 medium-size onion, diced (about 1 cup); 2 cloves garlic, minced; 1 tablespoon vegetable oil; ½ teaspoon Coarse salt (kosher or sea), or more to taste; 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce; ½ teaspoon Coarse salt (kosher or sea), or more to taste; ½ teaspoon Coarse salt (kosher or sea), or more to taste; ¼ teaspoon ground allspice, or to taste; ½ teaspoon Freshly ground black pepper; 3 tablespoons fresh cilantro leaves

Preparation info

Makes About
2 Cups

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

About

Here’s a tasty sauce that’s sweet, fruity, and smoky—just like a traditional North American barbecue sauce—but the Scotch bonnets, rum, and allspice let you know you’re not in Kansas anymore.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 medium-size onion, diced (about 1 cup)

Sauce
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Heat the oil in a large nonreactive saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion, garlic, ginger, and Scotch bonnet(s) and cook until soft, about 5 minutes. Do not let them brown.
Add the pineapple juice, pineapple, rum, brown sugar, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, salt, black pepper, and allspice. Briskly simmer the sauce until richly flavored and reduced by one th