Blueberry BBQ chicken from Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South (page 198) by Vivian Howard

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  • lou_weez on January 11, 2022

    We loved this! It is sweet and really lovely with chicken. Will make it again.

  • allisonsemele on July 30, 2021

    My husband loved this, but it was a bit too sweet for me on the chicken. I thought it could benefit from additional savory flavors, like thyme, maybe. Grilled a chicken as written, and have ~1.5 c of sauce leftover. I look forward to trying the leftover sauce with goat cheese and drizzled over vanilla ice cream.

  • meginyeg on May 01, 2021

    Thought this was a tasty twist on bbq sauce. We all really enjoyed it.

  • chawkins on July 16, 2020

    Good barbecue sauce, a bit on the sweet side. I cooked the chicken pieces in the oven for about 40 minutes. Grilling would have been better, would probably yield crispier skin.

  • metacritic on June 12, 2020

    Stunningly good. Cooked 2 chickens on a wood fired grill and basted after 20 mins using 1.5 cups of the sauce total and then slathered with an additional .5 cup of the sauce after it was cooked.

  • stockholm28 on August 24, 2019

    This was great. My ”sauce” was the consistency of grape jelly after chilling, so I needed to heat it back up to get it to a consistency where I could brush it (or rather spoon it) on the chicken thighs. This had great flavor. I’ve got a jar in the fridge and have used it a couple times when grilling chicken.

  • MelMM on February 03, 2019

    7-6-2017 Let me say that this sauce is very tasty, and I had to restrain myself from just drinking it up. It's sweeter than a typical eastern NC vinegar sauce, and it's a bit sweeter and thicker than the shrubs I've been making lately. But it's tangier, by quite a bit, than saba. So maybe that will help you place it on a sweet/sour spectrum. The spices are present, but subtle. This is a carefully balanced, nuanced, and precisely written recipe, which is what I've come to expect from Ms. Vivian. So what does a vegan do with blueberry barbecue sauce? I've used it cocktails, and I've used it as a barbecue sauce (for soy curls). The answer to how this stands up to smoke is dang well, thank you very much. And if you are the type who likes some aged balsamic vinegar on ice cream, then I think you'd like this as well. Or over sliced peaches.

  • sarahkalsbeek on July 13, 2018

    Really yummy. Have tried on chicken legs and thighs. First time we made it, I didn't let the sauce sit as long as she says to, but it was still great. Also used the blueberry sauce in some sparkling water for a little mocktail - delicious!

  • vickster on July 29, 2017

    Painted the BBQ sauce on chicken thigh/leg pieces and then cooked in the smoker. Not being grilled, the chicken wasn't too pretty (quite blue!). But it was delicious. Love the Blueberry BBQ Sauce!

  • TrishaCP on July 09, 2017

    Wow, this is great! The blueberry BBQ sauce takes a while to prep, but it is well worth it. (And we grilled about 3 lbs of chicken and still have tons of sauce left.) It is sweet, but not too sweet and the blueberry flavor is definitely there and delicious with the charring from the grill. (We used our gas grill rather than charcoal, but it was still great.)

  • DKennedy on February 12, 2017

    This is a signature dish at the restaurant. Episode 1, season 2

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