Sticky Guava Barbecue Drumsticks
“My mom (esteem many Puerto Rican mothers) has continuously had a copy of Yvonne Ortiz’s A Model of Puerto Rico in our kitchen,” writers chef and recipe developer Gabriella Vigoreaux. “I’m able to instruct which dishes she’s made the most because the guide just naturally falls open to those recipes. Only eventually of quarantine accumulate I started the usage of it myself, marking new territory with soffritto stains on the pages my mom managed to care for pristine all these years. I turn to it after I want to taste my grandmother’s and extensive-grandmother’s cooking with half of of the effort. One of my high-tail-tos is Ortiz’s guava barbecue sauce. It’s a wildly easy (four-ingredient) recipe with a single sentence procedure: ‘Completely combine the total ingredients.’ It takes about 5 seconds to hang nevertheless straight conjures memories of childhood journeys to the island, stopping at a kiosko for a pincho de pollo (chicken skewer) and licking the sticky candy sauce from off my runt fingers. My model is nothing esteem Ortiz’s, nevertheless it surely brings me abet just the identical. I’ve slathered this sauce on ribs and total fish and weak it as a glaze for pork belly, nevertheless I will continuously esteem it easiest with chicken. Here is simply to claim, you might presumably also want to double it.”
Equipment
Steps
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Mix together 1 Tbsp. achiote (annatto) powder or paprika, 1 Tbsp. Diamond Crystal or 1¾ tsp. Morton kosher salt, 1 Tbsp. garlic powder, 1 Tbsp. ground coriander, 1 Tbsp. ground cumin, 2 tsp. dried oregano, and 2 tsp. freshly ground unlit pepper in a petite bowl. Generously sprinkle seasoning eventually of 8–12 extensive chicken drumsticks or 4 thighs and 4 drumsticks (about 3 lb.). Let sit down whilst you hang the barbecue sauce. (You most definitely have time, put together chicken on a wire rack space inside a rimmed baking sheet and let chill, uncovered, in a single day.)
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Assemble your ingredients: Prick 8-oz. guava or quince paste into ½” cubes (if the usage of 8 oz. guava jelly, just add straight below, no want to prep). Peel and finely prick one 2″ fragment ginger and 2 garlic cloves. Finely prick 1 canned chipotle chile in adobo sauce.
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Carry guava paste, ginger, garlic, chipotle chile, ½ cup apple cider vinegar, ⅓ cup spiced or darkish rum, 3 Tbsp. fresh lime juice, 3 Tbsp. ketchup, 1 Tbsp. soy sauce, ½ tsp. ground allspice and ¼ cup water to a simmer in a medium pot over medium-excessive heat, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium and proceed simmering, stirring every so generally, till guava melts and sauce is thick nevertheless pourable, about 10 minutes. Scoop out ½ cup sauce and space aside for serving.
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If grilling, put together a grill for medium-excessive heat. Grill chicken, turning every so generally, till frivolously charred, 15–20 minutes. Baste chicken with guava sauce and proceed grilling, turning and basting on the total (strive to expend most, if now not all, of the sauce) and intelligent to a cooler segment of the grill in case you’ve got flare-ups, till cooked thru and an instant-read thermometer registers now not much less than 165° (we esteem the extra tenderness of bringing it to 175°, so in point of fact feel free to high-tail fairly extra), 8–10 minutes longer.
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If baking, space a rack in very top place of oven and final rack within the center. Warmth broiler. Line an limitless baking sheet with foil and space a wire rack inside. Arrange chicken on rack and broil, undisturbed, till charred in spots, 5–7 minutes. Fetch away chicken from oven and turn over. Broil till a range of facet is charred in spots facet, 3–5 minutes. Brush chicken with guava sauce. Reduce oven temperature to 350° and cross chicken to center rack. Bake 10 minutes. Flip over and brush with more sauce. Proceed cooking, basting with more sauce every few minutes (strive to expend most, if now not all, of the sauce), till an instant-read thermometer registers 165° (we esteem the extra tenderness of bringing it to 175°, so in point of fact feel free to high-tail fairly extra), 20–25 minutes longer.
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Transfer chicken to a platter and let leisure 5–10 minutes. Attend with reserved guava sauce for dipping.
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Halt ahead: Sauce could additionally be made 1 week ahead. Quilt and chill.
Recipe by Gabriella Vigoreaux
Critiques Part
This recipe sounds delicious. I’m planning on doing a “Wingsgiving” for Thanksgiving this 365 days ( wings reasonably than turkey) and now I do know which flavor I will be making. Cannot wait to overview out it!
AnonymousMiami, Florida09/06/20
This appears to be like unbelievable! Adore the diy sazón recipe. Can’t wait to hang it for my family. Looks better than my abuelitas!!
AnonymousFlorida09/06/20
Looks delicious and I’m able to’t wait to overview out it, nevertheless I’m counting procedure more ingredients than you acknowledged: “It’s a wildly easy (four-ingredient) recipe”. Why now not follow the unusual?
AnonymousUs09/06/20