Leftover BBQ spare rib soup

Truthfully I don’t eat that much BBQ.
It’s one of those “familiarity breeding contempt” things.
After many hours of slow cooking BBQ meat, I’m not usually hungry for it.
Seeing the people line up for it and pack bbq away with their sides etc.
The hours cooking is worth it.

I am crazy for a left over BBQ soup that I brewed up!
It has all the taste and smell of BBQ without the gut bomb torpor.
If you have some left over BBQ from your next cook out, give my recipe a try.
I usually use bbq pork spare rib leftovers.
It comes off as a BBQ mulligatawny, spicy, tangy, hearty, and good.

1 pound (de-boned) bbq’d spare ribs/ baby backs/pulled pork/or beef. de-boned and mini bite sized.
1) large yellow onion large dice
1) 36 oz. can white hominy
3/4 of a diced red pepper large dice
1/2 a savoy cabbage 1 1/2″ dice
1) 10 3/4oz. can diced tomatos
1) 10 3/4 oz. can condensed creamy tomato soup
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
3 tablespoons spicy bbq sauce your choice or to taste (I use Mr. Stubbs spicy, or Loose Lips Larry’s)
1/4 teaspoon McCormick Smoky sweet pepper blend (more or less to taste)
64 oz. free range organic chicken stock
2 tablespoons of olive oil
1) teaspoon dried or fresh thyme
Sea salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste

In a heavy pot, add olive oil diced onions.
Cook over med high heat until transparent and starting to golden, add bell peppers, hominy, and diced tomato.
Cook together for 4 more minutes stirring several times.
Add chicken stock, bbq meat, tomato soup, and cabbage.
Let simmer (covered) for 30 minutes at low heat.
Add vinegar, bbq sauce, smoky sweet pepper, salt pepper, and thyme.
Keep simmering until the cabbage is cooked throughout. (appx. 30-45 more minutes)

This makes a lot of soup so you’ll be “eatin on it” for days, or invite the whole gang over…

If you use left over beef bbq as your soup meat, wait until the final 20 minutes of cooking to put it into the soup. Beef will get dried out tasting because of it’s lower fat content.

I haven’t fully experimented with this but… you might be able to do a crock pot fake slow cook bbq by adding sauce and some liquid smoke to crock pot ribs or butt etc.
Eat that as a main dish one night then try to soup with the leftovers.
You can also obviously get some meat from your local bbq and do this recipe, if you have the will power to save some meat for leftovers.