CHIPOTLE BARBECUE SAUCE

I was going to post a photo, but I figure a shot of a thick brown sauce isn't going to add much to your comprehension of the recipe. This stuff is simple to make (once you have the ingredients), tastes brilliant on barbecued beef, pork ribs and sausages and keeps for a very long time. If you don't know, chipotles are smoked jalapeño chillies. Chipotles en adobo are chipotles cooked in a sauce that includes brown sugar, vinegar and other goodies. You can buy canned chipotles en adobo from a number of delicatessens or from online Mexican food sources. Alternatively, you can make your own BUT (you knew there'd be a complication, didn't you?) to do this you'll have to get hold of dried chipotle chillies (which you'd get from the same Mexican food suppliers as the canned chipotles en adobo or from Herbie's Spices in Sydney or other spice traders). If you want to make life even more difficult, I suppose you could buy jalapeño seeds, grow the chillies until red, smoke them over mesquite wood THEN make a batch of chipotles en adobo and THEN make your BBQ sauce. While you're at it, you might as well grow your own onions, celery, garlic, rape (for the canola oil) and tomatoes (for the ketchup), harvest your own cumin seeds, make your own Worcestershire sauce, smoke your own paprika and whip up a batch of cider vinegar from fruit from your orchard. See you in a couple of years. Recipe below.

CHIPOTLE BARBECUE SAUCE