How To Use Fruit In Your BBQ Rubs – Mango Chili Pork Rub

I’ve used fruit rubs in videos manytimes before on ribs on pork but todayI’m gonna focus on how I make a fruitrub[Music]now fruit rubs generally in my opiniongo best with porkyou know pork butt pork loin pork ribs Ihave used them on other things butthere’s just something about thatinherent sweetness that goes really wellwith pork and the basis for any fruitrub is the fruit and really the way thatI like to get that fruit into the rub isby using a freeze-dried fruit today I’mgonna be using one and a half ounces ofa freeze dried mango now it’s importantto remember these aren’t just driedfruit dried fruit that you get sometimesstill has that moisture in there andwhen you try and grind it up and get itinto more of that granular stage it canget tacky and sticky and we want toavoid that so freeze-dried works reallywell so I’ve got my little tiny ninjafood processor out here I’m just gonnago ahead and get these mango pieces inthere and you can see they’re just thelittle sort of dried chipsand we’re gonna pulse this until it’sfully broken down it can turn into apowder pretty quickly so you want towatch that you want it how to read butif you can avoid it just being a cloudof powder try and do that let’s see howwe’re looking still a few too many largegranules so I want to break this down alittle bit more[Music]that’s looking better I can live withthat let’s move on to our otheringredients so that powdered mango thatwe made I’m gonna be using what I’mcalling a mango chili rub and we’regonna start with half a cup of brownsugarnow you may be wondering why didn’t Ijust put the ingredients in the littlefood processor with the powdered mangoif you run brown sugar through there ithas a nice granular texture as it is Idon’t want to break this down anymore sowe’ve got a really powdery kind of onewith the mango I don’t want to breakthis down into any more sort of finercrystals I want them a little bit morelike this granular so to our brown sugarwe’re going to add our mango rememberthis was an ounce and a half offreeze-dried mangowe’re gonna add a teaspoon of koshersalt teaspoon of cracked black pepperit’s pretty finely cracked pepper notquite down to fully ground but prettyclose and one teaspoon of chili powderI’m using a dark California chili powderyou can find these in the grocery storeit’s kind of a blend it’s it’s just gota very dark rich color you’ll sometimessee it labeled as California chilimoledo I don’t even know what that meansbut that’s what this is before I get thelid on and give this a good shake I justwant to stir it up a bit now if there’sany of those big lumps of brown sugarthat sort of clump together just breakthem up with a spoon or get in therewith your hand and crush them now Idon’t make these fruit rubs ahead oftime to store I make them the day I’mgonna use them or the day beforekeep them tightly sealed in a containerbecause that freeze-dried powdery fruitis going to absorb moisture so ifthere’s moisture around it’s going toabsorb it and then it’s just gonnabecome clumpy so you want to use itquickly all right let’s get our lid onshake and if there’s any of those clumpsof brown sugar still get in there andbreak them up it’s really not that big adeal with brown sugar if you do get tosome of those clumps wearing you to useit right away because when you put it onthe surface of the say pork butt or ribsthat moisture is gonna grab on to thatand it’s gonna start to dissolve whichis what you want let’s get a littletaste of this and see how it is hmm thatmangos right up front with the littlebite of the chili pepper it’s not superhot if you want this hotter add morechili powder and really the basics ofthese rubs are you can use any kind offruit you want change up the ingredientsany way you would like less salt moresalt more black pepper add paprika addgarlic powder although I tend to findthat the garlic powder doesn’t work aswell when you have these super sweetfruits like mango and things like thatI’ve used garlic powder before when I’mdoing something with like sort of a tartapple and that works okay but generallyI like to not put too much garlic in thefruit rubs there we go there’s our rubthis will go perfect on pork ribs like Isaid pork butt pork loins porktenderloin pork chopsfor me it’s a very pork specific I haveused this on chicken and it’s reallygood but I think it really shines withpork so if you’re wanting to incorporatefruit into your rubs it gives greatflavorsuper easy to do using freeze-driedfruit pulverize it add it like any otheringredient and it’s gonna be a greataddition to especially pork dishes butif you’re adventurous try it on someother things too