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Gourmet Tapenade Sliders

AllSpiceRecipes — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:11:05 +0000

If you’ve had a chance to come to one of our tasting at Surfas you’ve probably tried our tapenade sliders. A combination of American Kobe beef, Chipotle Olive Tapenade and some Tronchon cheese, a semi-soft cheese made from blended cow’s, goat’s and sheep’s milk originating in Spain. Definitely a favorite among both the customers and the employees at Surfas, here’s the recipe.

Ingredients:
1.5 lbs American Kobe ground beef or your favorite ground meat
1/2 jar All Spice Cafe’s Chipotle Olive Tapenade
5 oz Tronchon cheese finely chopped

Preparation:
Combine all 3 ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Form 1½ – 2″ sized meatballs. When ready to cook, flatten the slider and place on a grill at medium heat approx 4 min on each side.

Serve on a small roll or a couple of slices of baguette.

For an extra treat place a dollup of All Spice Cafe’s new Jolokiberry Jam on top.

Chipotle Tapenade Slider

Tapenade Slider with Jam

Blackberry-Chipotle Tri-tip Marinade

AllSpiceRecipes — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:09:04 +0000

Gary at Cooking Outdoors has another recipe that includes Chipotle Garlic Sauce. This time he is cooking a tri-tip roast outdoors on his grill. Along with some potatoes and asparagus.

Here is his tri-tip marinade recipe:

Ingredients:
• 1 Tri-Tip roast trimmed
• 16 oz. Fresh or frozen Blackberries
• 1/2 c All Spice Cafe Chipotle Garlic Sauce
• 3/4 c Honey
• 1 cup Chardonnay wine
• 3 tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar
• 1 tbsp Kosher Salt
• 1/4 tsp minced garlic
• 1 tbsp sugar

Preparation:
Place approximately 2/3 of the Blackberries, 1/2 Chardonnay wine in a pan over high heat and bring to a boil. Mash Blackberries to a puree and remove from heat when done. Strain out the seeds, add honey, vinegar, salt, chipotle garlic sauce and rest of wine. Mix well and let cool in refrigerator.

Pour 3/4 of the sauce over a trimmed Tri-Tip roast (use a plastic zip-lock bag for this) marinate in the refrigerator for up to twenty four hours. Add the remaining Blackberries, to the leftover sauce add 1 tbsp sugar to mixture and refrigerate. This will be your topping sauce when the food is done!

Make sure you check out the Cooking Outdoors site for videos showing how the tri-tip is done on the grill, along with the potatoes and aspargus sides. There are tips on creating “heat zones” with your coals and other techniques.

Thanks again to Gary for sharing another great recipe with us!

Chipotle Marinated Tri Tip

AllSpiceRecipes — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:17:32 +0000

If you haven’t tried tri tip, you’re in for a real treat if you can find some. Approximately 80% of the tri tip roasts are sold in California and 95% west of the Mississippi. Awesome beef flavor!

1 or 2 tri tip roasts
1/3 cup All Spice Cafe Chipotle Garlic Sauce
2/3 cup apple cider vinegar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
additional Chipotle Garlic Sauce for dipping the tri tips

Pour the Chipotle Garlic Sauce, apple cider vinegar, salt and pepper into a gallon size zip lock bag. Place tri tip in bag, squeeze out as much air as possible and place in the refrigerator.

I like to flip the meat every half hour or so, massaging it, before placing it back in the refrigerator.

After marinating about 4 – 6 hours, grill over high heat for about 5 minutes on each side. Move tri tip to a cool part of the grill (250 – 300 degrees) and cook for about another half hour (flipping every 8 – 10 minutes) until instant read thermometer reaches 130 for medium rare or higher depending on how you like your beef.

Pour a little Chipotle Garlic Sauce on your plate and dip some of the tri tip in it.

Might be the best steak sauce you’ve ever tasted!