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Want to make something delicious for dinner? Barbecue will be the best choice for dinner if your family prefers slow cooker recipes. Besides the nutritional benefits, slow cooking helps preserve the taste intact. Whether you want chicken, pork, or beef, you can try these slow cooker Barbecue recipes to make everyone’s mouth water.

The sweet, tangy, and spicy flavor of the barbeque melting in the mouth is everyone’s favorite. So let us enlighten you with some of the best recipes.

Tangy Flavoured Bbq Wings:

Wings are one of the most preferred sides of all time. And when it’s slow cooked and barbecued with a tangy flavor it’s an 11 on 10. So let us see the recipe for 5 pounds of chicken wings:

Ingredients You Need

• Take 5 pounds of chicken wings 
• 1.5 cups of molasses
•  2 to 3 tablespoons pepper sauce or oyster sauce
•  ⅔ cups of white vinegar and honey
•  2 cups of ketchup
•  ½ chili powder and onion powder
•  salt to taste

How to Cook:

Take a  sharp knife and get your chicken wings ready by cutting the wings in the joints. Start with preheating the oven to 375 degrees. Arrange them in the baking pan and start baking them for half an hour and then drain them again for more than 25 minutes or less until it releases the juice.

Bring to boil the rest of the ingredients in a saucepan. Stir gently, turn it off, and bring it to a simmer after 30 minutes. Lastly, try draining the wings and put the chicken wings and place them on a slow cooker. Wondering which one to choose? Try one from Cuisinart slow cookers and cook it for around three hours and your tangy flavored bbq wings is ready!

If you love the tangy bbq flavor but love fish more, you can try sweet and smoky bbq fish instead.

Bbq Pork Ribs:

Bbq pork ribs is another winner dinner option if you love pork. It is mouthwatering and nutrition intact at the same time. So let us have a look at how to master it in slow cooking:

Ingredients You Need:

• 4-½ pound pork ribs
• 1 tablespoon of dijon mustard 
• a chopped garlic clove
•  1 to 2 tablespoons of pepper
•  2-½ cups of bbq sauce
• 3  4th cup of cherry preserves

 How to Cook:

Well, this is probably the easiest recipe on the list. Place the pork ribs on the pan by combining all the ingredients mentioned above after cutting them finely for cooking. You can take a 6 qt slow cooker for that. It will take 6 to 8 hours to get cooked; make sure you cook it covered in low heat to tenderize.

Shredded bbq beef:

Slow cooking of shredded bbq beef can take up to 10 hours, but the preparation takes only 10 minutes. Make sure you take beef chuck roast for cooking delicious shredded beef.

Ingredients You Need:

• Half a pound of beef chuck roast
• A can of tomato sauce
• 1 cup of onion( chopped)
• ¼ cup of brown sugar
• 1 tsp of salt and soy sauce
• 2 tsp of vinegar
• chili powder (4 tsp)
• ½ teaspoon of dry mustard

How to Cook:

Cooking shredded beef in a slow cooker takes almost 7 to 8 hours combining high and low heat. All the ingredients mentioned above must be stirred well before adding the chuck beef roast. Later on, add onion topping over the mixture. Stir the entire meal with a fork, and the first seven hours should be cooked on high flame. If you want to add more tenderness, you can cook for one more hour.

Bbq Tender Chicken:

Want that soft, melting taste of bbq in your mouth?  This chicken is equally popular among both children and elders. So let us see how you can bring that sweet and tangy flavor home.

Ingredients You Need :

• First of all, take 4 pounds of chicken
• Thinly sliced onion and lemon
• Canola oil (1 tsp )
• Bbq sauce
• Cola (2/4 cup)

How to Cook:

Get your chicken ready by cutting them into serving sizes. Take a 3 qt slow cooker and place them. Top the chicken with the thinly sliced onion and lemon, then add the cola and the bbq sauce. Cook on low heat until you get your desired tenderness. It may take up to 4 to 5 hours.

Carolina bbq:

Got a big pork shoulder? Thinking which bbq recipe you should try for brunch so that you don’t lose the nutritional benefits too? If you have time in hand, simply go for Carolina bbq. Let’s see how easily you can go for it.

Ingredients You Need:

• 2 tsp of brown sugar
• One and a half cups of apple cider vinegar
• Salt to taste
• A roasted pork shoulder
• Grounded black pepper
• One and a half tablespoons of hot pepper sauce
• 2 tsp of cayenne pepper and crushed red pepper flakes

How to Cook:

Take a slow cooker and place the whole pork shoulder roast into the cooker.  Before that, season the shoulder with salt and pepper. Pour vinegar into the cooker and cook the meal for 12 hours until it tenderizes. At this point, the chicken can easily be pulled off; time to shred it by removing the bones and straining the broth into two cups. Now add the rest of the ingredients in the broth and mix it with the pork in the slow cooker on low heat and enjoy!

Wrapping up,

The barbecue combines all that sweet, tangy, spicy flavor at once! Barbeque slow cooking can be cooked with various types of meat according to preferences. Whether you want a whole chicken or a beef bbq sandwich, you can enjoy both in a slow cooker having the mouth-melting barbeque flavor. So what are you waiting for? Try These Slow-Cooker Barbeque Recipes to Make Everyone’s Mouth Water now!

Consuming meat frequently can be bad for your health as it can increase your cholesterol level dangerously. Does that mean you should stop eating all meat? Absolutely not! Fish and seafood are excellent sources of animal protein and good fat.

If you’re still not trying pescatarian options, you’re really missing out on some good things. Why not try these BBQ dishes with seafood and other fish options?

This article provides fourteen mouth-watering pescatarian dishes that you can make easily. You might regret it later if you don’t try them now!

A note—you can mix the spices in the recipes as you like.

1. Pan-Fried Cod

One of the best ways to enjoy pescatarian dishes is by pan-frying them. Out of all the different types of fried fish, pan-fried cod tastes and looks the best.

You can sear the cod fillets with only salt and pepper or rub some seasoning spices of your choice on them. Heat a skillet with some olive oil, place the seasoned fillets in the pan, and sear them thoroughly on each side.

If you like to cook your fillets well, you can continue cooking them in a preheated oven. And there you have it! Beautifully pan-fried cod fillets!

2. Fried Pomfret

One of the easiest thin fish to fry without overcooking is a pomfret. Unlike halibut, which overcooks easily, pomfret retains its juiciness while also getting a crispy golden skin.

Fry it in olive oil with a seasoning rub, thyme, and lemon, or even with just some salt and pepper. It’ll be a mouth-watering yet healthy dish to eat every day.

3. Sweet and smoky BBQ Fish

Have you tried BBQ fish before? No? Then you must try this one. Take filets of a big, thick fish and rub them with a mixture of brown sugar, smoked paprika, cayenne pepper, black pepper, lemon salt, lemon zest, and squeezed lemon juice.

Wrap them with aluminum foil and grill them. You can also use a grilling pan instead or lay the fillets on a cedar block and place the block on the grill. You’ll get a sweet-and-sour fish BBQ with a smoky cedar flavor.

If you’re doing this in an apartment, you must be careful and take the necessary precautions.

4. Seared Ahi Tuna

Ahi tuna isn’t like your regular tuna. It’s very delicate, and the only other way to eat it apart from making a poke bowl is by searing it to rare or medium rare, whichever you prefer. Make sure that you’re using fresh or flash frozen sashimi-grade ahi tuna.

Bring the fillets to room temperature, season them liberally with salt and black pepper, cook them for two minutes on each side, and let them rest for up to five minutes. Once rested, cut them into steak-like pieces or enjoy them whole!

Serve with black vinegar or a simple brown butter sauce; it’ll be mouth-watering heaven.

5. Pan-seared Halibut Fillet

Halibut, although big, is a very delicate fish, with which you’ll need to work quite technically and carefully. You may or may not take the skin off, whichever you like. When preparing the fish, follow the patterns on the body to know where you can cut for an effortless separation.

Heat a skillet with olive oil, season the halibut fillet with salt and pepper, and sear it on high for three minutes on each side. Remember, they’re easy to overcook. Serve them with lemon butter sauce brushed on top.

6. Crusted Tilapia

As if pan-seared fish isn’t delicious enough, think about how mouth-watering bread and cheese-crusted fish are. That’s what a crusted tilapia should taste like!

To make this beautifully crunchy fish dish, mix breadcrumbs with Parmesan cheese, rosemary, thyme, salt, pepper, and paprika in a shallow bowl. Beat a few eggs in another bowl, and prepare another bowl with seasoned flour.

Dip a tilapia fillet in flour, coat it in egg, then dredge it in the crumb mixture. Coat it in egg again, followed by the crumb mixture, and sear it in a skillet heated with some olive oil. Let it rest on a wired rack and garnish with some cilantro and lemon zest.

You’ll have beautiful, crunchy, and tender crusted tilapia in no time.

7. Grilled Salmon

Salmon is very easy to cook. Even grilled salmon! It may sound difficult, but the end result is delightful once you get the hang of it.

In a small bowl, mix some paprika, cumin, all-spice, onion powder, garlic powder, thyme celery seed, salt, and cracked back pepper. Rub this seasoning mix on the salmon fillets and grill them on a grill pan sprayed with olive oil.

Grill the salmon fillets on both sides, skin-side first. When done, serve them with lemon wedges on the side and fresh parsley sprigs as garnish.

8. Seafood-on-Grill

Seafood-on-grill is probably the most effortless yet incredibly delicious pescatarian BBQ you can pull off. You can even make it for Christmas!

All you need is some peeled and deveined shrimp, the octopus of your choice (we prefer baby octopus), squid, mussels, clams, cod, and halibut. Rub them well with a spice rub of your choice, let them sit for a while, and then grill them to perfection.

Enjoy the seafoodie sweetness!

9. Beer Battered Seafood

Another excellent seafood dish that you can try is beer-battered seafood. You can make it to enjoy it with BBQ fish and seafood, or just have it as is.

For the batter, you need to thoroughly mix cornmeal, all-purpose flour, paprika,  baking soda, back pepper, and salt with craft beer to make a thick but runny batter. Toss some tail-on shrimps, shucked clams, scallops, cod, squid, and baby octopus in this batter.

Fry them in olive oil or canola oil and serve them with various sauces, such as chimichurri, BBQ sauce, buffalo sauce, tartar sauce, or vinaigrette.

These should look a lot like tempura shrimp, only much more delicious.

10. Seared Scallops on Corn Salad

Another easy seafood dish you can make is seared or grilled scallops on a bed of citrusy corn salad.

All you need to do is salt and pepper some scallops, sear them on both sides on a grilling pan with some butter for two minutes, and you’ll have a wonderful, delicate-tasting dish!

Grill some corn cobs on a hot grill to bring out their sweetness while adding a smoky flavor. Shuck the corn off their cobs (it doesn’t need to be in perfect separate kernels), mix them with some fresh rosemary, salt, and fresh black pepper, and lay them on a big plate.

Place the scallops scattered yet arranged, garnish them with parsley and basil, and the dish is ready!

11. Lemon Butter Lobster

If you’re looking for a romantic pescatarian meal for a date night, lemon butter lobster is your perfect option.

Poach two lobsters in water mixed with vinegar for ten minutes. Take them out, let them rest, separate the head from the lobster tail, cut the top of the lobster shell, and expose the lobster meat.

Prepare a butter sauce with the ‘lobster butter,’ the yellow butter-like matter you find in the lobster head. Take them out in a bowl, mix them with lemon, salt, pepper, and butter, spread them liberally on the exposed lobster meat, and garnish with some cilantro.

Serve it with lemon wedges on the side.

12. Shrimp Scampi

Shrimp itself is such a delicious protein. Think what butter, garlic, and lemon will do to it! That’s how shrimp scampi is—heaven inside your mouth. Although the name can mean different things to different people, it needs three main elements: shrimp, butter, and lots of garlic.

Pan-sear shrimps in olive oil or butter. Set the shrimps aside, saute lots of chopped garlic in butter, and stir vigorously. You can also add lemon, wine, or tomato, whichever you like.

Doing this over a grill will give that extra smoky, charred flavor that you love. Some like serving it on pasta, and some like it with toasted bread to soak up the juices. Try both ways to see which one you prefer!

13. Grilled Fish Tacos

This dish is literally so easy and effortless to make! You can make this with any fish, or even shrimp, calamari, and octopus!

Just bake whichever seafood option you choose, let it cool, chop it into roughly square pieces, coat them in a hot sauce of your choice, and assemble them in tortillas!

To assemble, you can use regular salsa or salsa verde as a topping, along with some shredded cabbage, blue cheese, ranch, buffalo sauce, taco sauce, or BBQ sauce.

14. Fish en Papillote

‘En papillote’ is a French term for ‘in paper.’ Fish en papillote is when you bake the fish wrapped in a pouch of parchment paper with some other vegetables, seasonings, and herbs. Although it sounds fancy, making it is straightforward.

Rub a fillet of a big white fish, skin off, with butter and some seasoning. Place it on a large piece of parchment paper and surround it with chopped vegetables like carrots, cherry tomatoes, olives, peppers, and herbs like rosemary and thyme.

Close the fish by wrapping the parchment into a pouch. Put it in a preheated oven and let it bake for a few minutes. The fish will bake in its own juices, thus making everything even more flavorful.

Conclusion

Yes, fish, crustaceans, and other seafood can be intimidating to cook with as they can overcook or break easily. However, it’s worth learning how to make different recipes with them. You don’t necessarily have to make them as BBQ dishes. You can even make them as side dishes for BBQ parties. Watch them disappear like they were the stars of the show!
We hope you try out these recipes for delicious pescatarian BBQ dishes and like them enough to keep making them.