I just wrote about my new favorite BBQ sauce, the original recipe from The Salt Lick, outside of Austin, TX. Now I know why. As I was perusing the label to look at the ingredients (oil, vinegar, prepared mustard, Worcestershire, spices, etc) I noticed the nutrition info.
Egad.
Take a look at whatever sauce you keep handy near your computer. (Don't tell me you don't have sauce at your desk at work.) You'll see that per 2 Tbsp serving it has something like 25 calories and no grams of fat. Well, the folks at the Salt Lick seem to have adopted the "Fat, it's where the flavor is" theory of cooking: their original recipe sauce has 160 calories and 16 grams of fat per two Tbsp serving. Which basically means it is BBQ sauce flavored salad dressing.
Now, God didn't design BBQ to be healthy, but do we really need to put a fat-based sauce all over our fat-based meat? That said, if there is that much oil in the sauce, I wonder if I can deep fry a turkey in it. Hmm.
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Your mom and I ate at the Salt Lick two summers ago when we were visiting there. Came highly recommended by all sorts of Texans. We didn't notice any mustard-based sauce or surely would've tried it. Can't say we were all that impressed with the BBQ (as you point out, wrong animal for starters) but it WAS an experience. They had five-six people in the parking lot just directing traffic. Waits for a table ran about an hour. Very,very rustic.
Tyler --
Come to Austin and I'll take you to about 5 places that will make you forget Salt Lick. And for good measure you can get 2" thick pork chops and some pork ribs just in case you don't just want cow. Ask JT. Guess we're too lazy to pull the pork down here.
But yes -- Salt Lick's sauce is very good.
Take care,
Scotty C
I'm very familiar with the Salt Lick. I know a few employees and they can attest to "the fat is where the flavor is". It is good BBQ but you sure do have to be careful. I'm also a nutrition student. We've had to memorize a standard for sauces, dressings and oils. That is 2 tbsp is approximately 120 calories across the board. Be careful with sauces, they can really rack up the calories. This is just an approximation but it is a useful one and very sobering.
I ran across this recipe that is very similar to Salt Lick's bbq sauce, but WAY lower in fat. It's a good low-fat, low-carb bbq sauce (but it's NOT tomato-based--of course, neither is Salt Lick's). http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/carolina-style-low-carb-barbecue-sauce/Detail.aspx
r u crazy the BBQ sauce and BBQ its self is the best and if your worried about the calories just don't eat you don't apparently like it that much any way
If you want a close copycat give mine a try: http://forum.bigsteelkeg.com/index.php?topic=4734.0
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