Great Texas Recipes Start with Great Rubs

Great Texas recipes made with a great spice rub taste terrific all year long. Any season is BBQ season, and when you pair Truly Texas Foods’ quality spice rubs  with your favorite Texas recipes, you may never put your grill away again.

When it comes to seasoning meat for your authentic Texas recipes, nothing can create a taste sensation like  truly delicious spice rubs. Spice rubs are made of a variety of spices that you rub into your meat before broiling or grilling (Simple, right?). They're a great way to add a signature flavor to your favorite Texas recipes and it’s easy to start with great spice rubs.

Spice rubs can be either wet spice rubs or dry spice rubs. Dry spice rubs are made of spices and herbs and are rubbed into the meat before cooking. Wet spice rubs contain liquid, usually oil, and the meat is coated with it. Wet spice rubs have the advantage of sticking to the meat better, especially when your Texas recipes call for chicken or other meats that have the skin on. Dry spice rubs are rubbed into the meat, using the natural moisture of the meat to hold them there.

The trick to creating good spice rubs is to enhance the flavors of the meat in your Texas recipes, not to overpower them. Even if you love your food as hot as Texas in July, you don't want so much heat in your spice rubs that you lose the other flavors in your Texas recipes. Great spice rubs are a melding of flavors that complement one another and the meat they season.

Like all great Texas recipes, you start your spice rubs with a little salt and a little sweet. You can use any type of salt you like, as well as your favorite type of sugar, but you want about the same amount of each for a good base. Next, add about half as much paprika. (If you used ½ cup of salt and ½ cup sugar, then use ¼ cup of paprika.) Paprika will add a beautiful color to your spice rubs - and your meat - as well as a nice flavor.  

Now, to do justice to your Texas recipes, you need to bring on the heat! Here's where you make your spice rubs happy, by bringing in some peppers, chili powder, jalapeno powder- whatever you like best. Just be careful not to over do it or you'll lose the blending effect of the flavors. You can also add some other flavor. Try ¼ cup of basil for a nice spice rub for beef. You can add whatever spices you like. Just add it slowly, because once it's in there, it's in there. It's also a good idea to write down what ingredients you use and in what amounts, so if you love it, you can make it again.

When you're cooking from Texas recipes, you learn right quick that nothin' comes close to a real hunk of Texas beef.  Imagine a succulent Porterhouse, done just right on the BBQ. Think of that King of Steaks cooked up just right with spice rubs made of your favorite flavors like garlic, red pepper, basil and black pepper added to your base of salt and sugar. Mighty tasty! These are the kind of spice rubs guaranteed to bring plenty of compliments to the chef.  

If chicken is the star of your Texas recipes, then why not try spice rubs made of sage, lemon pepper and oregano added to your salt and sugar base for fresh new taste treats that will chase your blues right outta the coop!

If you love the idea of using great spice rubs and your favorite Texas recipes for your next BBQ, check out Truly Texas Foods for their own unique spice rubs. All across the great state of Texas, you'll find wonderful gourmet foods and spices made by Truly Texas Foods. Check out their website at www.trulytexasfoods.com and look for your favorites today. Truly Texas Foods spice rubs will rub you and your Texas recipes just right!