subject: From Mundane To Exotic, They All Need Barbecue Sauce [print this page] While most people are familiar with cooking things like chicken or beef on the grill, sometimes they are not sure what to do with more exotic or rare things like rattlesnake, bison, or shark. It is possible to grill anything, and using the right barbecue sauce for your exotic meats is just as important as it is for your pork or beef. Always know how you want to prepare something before you start, and you will have won half the battle.
The old adage that, " it tastes just like chicken" is not always the case, but sometimes it is. Look at the meat you are preparing and decide what familiar meat it looks like to you. How is the texture, is it light or dark meat, oily or dry? These are the first clues how you will prepare the meat. Is it more like a chicken breast or a chicken thigh? Maybe that is why everything always tastes like chicken since most cuts of meat are either like dark meat or light meat chicken! Once you have deciphered these clues, you will have a better chance of choosing a correct barbecue sauce.
Rattlesnake on the grill is much like white meat chicken, while rabbit is more like dark meat chicken. Both are excellent with the right sauce, and using a hickory smoke barbecue sauce on venison or bison is always a winner. Lizards, and other reptile meat is often tough so marinating them might do you justice, and fish is always better with a lighter sauce. With such a large selections of sauces and marinades on the market, you will easily be able to find the right sauce for anything you want to cook. Don't be afraid to ask your butchers or local chefs how to prepare certain types of meats, and the Internet can always help you find information on techniques for grilling as well.
So, whether you are serving bison burgers, or elk steaks, shark fillets, or frog legs, you should be able to pull off any of them with your grill and the right barbecue sauce. It is the magic of the grill, as basic cooking experience will take you much further than trying to complete a complicated meal in the kitchen with fancy gravies, too many side dishes, and multiple things cooking at once. The grill can bring you confidence if you keep it simple.
