Texas-style barbecue sauce differs substantially from its cousin to the north in Kansas City. It’s thinner — almost soupy — less sweet and has only a touch of tomatoes or ketchup.
Tag: Tex-Mex
Texas Barbecue Beef Brisket
For the quintessential Texas barbecue experience, Lone Star cooks take a normally tough cut of meat and render it meltingly tender with slow, careful roasting over smoking coals.
Sweet Coleslaw
This summer side dish is popular in the Midwestern United States and down into Central Texas, where it is called vinegar slaw and is served alongside Texas “low and slow” barbecue.
Southwestern Dry Rub
Give your grilling an extra kick when you use this easy-to-make rub with a taste of the American Southwest.
Guacamole
Guacamole originated in Mexico, but it is enjoyed throughout Central America, as well as in the American Southwest and in Tex-Mex cuisine.
Cowboy Beans
Full of spicy Tex-Mex flavor, this border-state variation of baked beans bulks up with a hefty helping of browned ground beef and adds a nice dose of barbecue sauce.
Chili con Carne
The combination of powdered chiles and meat is likely an ancient one. However, in its current form, chili seems to have started somewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border.