4x Tour de France BBQ recipes
Tour de France & BBQ: meat, flames, and cycling 🔥🚴♂️
You naturally watch the Tour de France with a cold beer in your hand and the BBQ going. While the cyclists climb, you descend into some serious grilled flavor. We’ve prepared four French-inspired BBQ recipes for you, packed with flavor, smoke, and character. Perfect for enjoying with your friends while watching top-level sport.
Grill hard. Look harder. 🇫🇷🥩🍻
✅ Cote de Boeuf, big meat for big goals.
1. Côte de Boeuf with chimichurri and sweet cheese potatoes
In the spirit of the Tour de France, we’re diving into French cuisine this month. And we’re hitting the pedals with BIG meat: Côte de Boeuf. A beautiful, large, tender piece of meat. Côte de Boeuf is a fancy name for a prime rib steak, bone-in. It’s the front section of the ribeye that promises the most tender and fattiest, veined muscle meat. It’s buttery-soft and incredibly flavorful.
So give this rib the attention, love, and especially the right time and temperature it needs! And you’ll love it. Truly, enjoy this robust yet delicate piece of meat on the barbecue. Perfect for a special Sunday. So take your time, and your family and friends will love it. Especially with this recipe with sweet potato and spicy chimichurri.
Enjoy the Tour de France!
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Ingredients
- Double Côte de Boeuf with bone
- 1 Lemon
- Full-cream butter
- Fresh parsley
- Fresh oregano
- 1 red onion
- 1 Springonion
- 1 red pepper
- 1 garlic
- Olive oil
- Balsamic vinegar
- Sweet potatoe
- Grated cheese
- Bacon strips
- Not Just BBQ Coffee rub
- Not Just BBQ Chimichurri rub
- Not Just BBQ Smoke Chunks Cherry
Necessities
- Kamado or #weber barbecue
- Coals, Not Just BBQ Firestarters, etc. for preparing your BBQ
- 1 Bowl to mix the chimichurri
- Cutting board
- Sharp knife
- Boiling pan
- Oven dish
- Tea towel
- Barbecue tongs
Preparation method
>> Watch our step-by-step how-to video recipe <<
Quick recipe steps:
1. Start your BBQ with our firestarters. Let the BBQ rise to 250 degrees Celsius.
2. Boil the sweet potatoes in a pan with water for 15 minutes, peel off the skin, cut in thick slices and place the potatoes in an oven dish.
3. Finely chop the spring onion, red onion, red pepper, parsley, oregano and garlic, grate the lemon zest.
4. Divide the bacon strips, spring onion and grated old cheese over the sweet potato and bake for 30 minutes with the barbecue closed.
5. Meanwhile, mix all the fresh herbs, red onion, red pepper, garlic and lemon zest with the Not Just BBQ chimichurri herbs and a few tablespoons of oil and balsamic vinegar to taste, let all the flavors infuse for an extra spicy bite.
6. Let the côte de boeuf come to room temperature for at least 1 hour. Pat the meat dry with kitchen paper.
7. Sprinkle generously with the Not Just BBQ Coffee rub. Cover all sides well.
8. Grill until golden brown directly on the gril.
9. Reduce the temperature of the bbq to 160 degrees Celsius
10. Add smoking wood between the coals at that time. Our chef used Cherry Woodchunks.
11. Grill the meat indirectly until you have a core temperature between 50-53 degrees C.
12. Let the meat rest enough, watch your cuisson or doneness because the meat will continue to cook a little before you cut it into super-thin slices. Serve with the chimichurri over the meat and the potatoes on the side. Enjoy!
End result Côte de Boeuf with chimichurri and sweet cheese potatoes
2. Gevulde bavette rollade met spinazie, pijnboompitten en pesto
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Ingredients
- Baby spincach
- Parma ham
- Parmesan cheese
- Pin nuts
- Pesto
- Not Just BBQ Texan Steakhouse BBQ rub
- Not Just BBQ Hickory Smoke Chunks
- Not Just BBQ Seasalt grinder
Necessities
- Kamado or #weber barbecue
- Coals, Not Just BBQ Firestarters for preparing your BBQ
- Bowl or baking pan for roasting de nuts
- Cutting board
- Sharp knife
- BBQ tongs
Preparation method
>> Watch the step-by-step how-to video recipe here <<
Quick recipe steps:
1. Prepare the barbecue for low & slow indirect cooking, fill the kamado with charcoal and light it with our firestarters. As soon as the coals turn white, close the lid of the barbecue.

2. Try to keep the barbecue with the vents at a constant temperature of 105 °C. Once the temperature has reached 105 °C for 15 consecutive minutes without touching the vents, you know you have the constant temperature right.

3. Slowly roast the pine nuts. Watch them!

4. Meanwhile ‘butterfly’ your bavette. Butterfly technic allows you to stuff the meat more easily. Butterflying with the grain ensures that the steak will be sliced against the grain into serving portions. How to ‘butterfly meat’: Holding your free hand flat against the top of the steak, insert the knife along the trimmed edge of the steak and start slicing horizontally through the middle. The goal is to work the knife through, cutting with the grain, from one side to the other, leaving the back edge intact like the spine of a book.
Read more on https://www.seriouseats.com/grilled-stuffed-flank-steak-muffuletta-salumi-provolone-olive-salad-recipe
5. First sprinkle salt and pepper on the bavette, not to much because the ham will give an extra salty hit too.

Then the Parma ham, then the pesto and finally the baby spinach, pine nuts and the Parmesan cheese.

3. Roll the bavette into a roulade, tie it with butcher’s twine. You do this by first tying a rope in width at the beginning and end, then a rope over the length and then again in the width of the roulade.

Generously apply the Texan Steakhouse Rub all around.

8. Now throw the wood chunks over the coals. An alternative are our easily spreadable Fire Herbs. Try for yourself what you like better.
9. Place the bavette on the barbecue and close the lid.
10. The goal is to reach a core temperature of 55°C which makes your meat medium rare. You can use a core temperature meter for this.

10. Depending on the thickness of your meat, it will take about one to two hours to reach the core temperature.When you reach 55°C, take the meat of and let it rest.

11. Cut into nice slices and serve this super tender colorful dish immediately.
Serve immediately. Delicious with some fresh baked Beer Bread, salad or mashed potatoe. Enjoy!
Stuffed bavette roulade from the barbecue

3. Pickled and smoked salmon lollipops
Fresh salmon and clafoutis also go well together. Definitely Mediterranean cuisine. A soft dough dish pairs beautifully with raw salmon. Read it HIER <
We are going to roll up and pickle the fresh salmon! And smoke gently over fire herbs, additionally provided with creamy cream cheese, fresh herbs and the kick of FRENCH MUSTARD! Watch our LIVE VIDEO to see our chefs take the steps, and below you can also read all the steps in detail. We got inpired by the recipe from maxdemeatguy.com, but we gave it our own, slightly less spicy twist with the French mustard from our products.
Do you think that goes together, mustard and salmon? Curious what you think. Be sure to show us your result on Facebook, Instagram or Pinterest and we’ll share it among all fans.
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Ingrediënten
- salmon fillet (1 piece of 1 kg)
- 1 lemon
- Cream cheese, natural, 200 grams
- Fresh curly parsley
- Fresh dill
- Cane sugar
- Not Just BBQ Seasalt grinder
- Not Just BBQ fishgrinder
- Not Just BBQ Mustard & Smoke BBQ Marinade & Sauce
- Not Just BBQ Honey Mustard Sauce
Benodigdheden
- Kamado or #weber barbecue
- Coals, Not Just BBQ Firestarters, etc. for preparing your BBQ
- 1 Bowl to mix the cream cheese and herbs
- Cutting board
- Sharp knife
- BBQ tongs
- Butcher’s rope
- Not Just BBQ Butcherpaper
Bereiding
>> Watch the step-by-step how-to video recipe here <<
Quick recipe steps:
1. Start with a piece of skinless salmon that is at least 1 pound (reduce the rest of the recipe if you’re using less).

2. We choose to give the salmon a dry ‘brine’. Season the salmon generously with 1 part sugar and 2 parts coarse sea salt from the Not Just BBQ Seasalt grinder so that a generous brine layer is created. Really put a lot on it! This is an important step to start your smoking process. The salt draws moisture from the salmon and you will notice that it has a more tender and intense taste. This will give the smoky taste even more chance to have an effect on your taste experience. Variant: You can also make a ‘wet’ brine bath. For this you use the same amounts of sugar and coarse salt in a bath of water and put the fish in it overnight. Experiment yourself.

3. Wrap the fresh fish with butcher paper and close with butcher’s twine. Then put the fish in the fridge overnight.

4. The next day, remove from the refrigerator, rinse gently with water and pat extremely dry.
5. Season the salmon lightly with a low-salt rub. We used the Not Just BBQ fishgrinder, because especially the fennel seed and dill seed and dill tops that are in these herbs are so good with this fish
6. Start your BBQ with our firestarters. Prepare the BBQ temperature to 110 degrees Celsius/225 F.

7. Meanwhile, make the filling: finely chop the jalapeño, dill or parsley and capers. Combine with juice of half a lemon, a little more of the Not Just BBQ fishgrinder and the cream cheese.
8. Spread the filling on the salmon.
9. Roll up the salmon and apply butcher twine lengthwise every 2-3 cm. Cut with a super sharp knife into slices about 5 cm thick.
10. If you want extra citrus flavor in your salmon, cut citrus like grapefruit, orange or lemon into slices and place on the grill, top with the salmon roll-ups.
11. Sprinkle the Not Just BBQ Fire Herbs de Provence between the smoldering coals and smoke (or bake at 110 degrees Celsius for about 30-45 min until the fish hits 50 degrees C internally.
12. Make a glaze of the Not Just BBQ Mustard & Smoke BBQ Marinade & Sauce and dilute with some water if necessary.
13. Top the salmon with a layer of glaze, and bring the internal temperature up to 60 degrees Celsius/130 F.
We also added roasted artichokes. Grease them with a little oil and place them whole on the grill, also add the EveryDay Grinder or Chilli Rub to your own taste and grill briefly next to the salmon roll-ups.
The leaves of the artichoke can be pulled off in no time, dip in a small dipping sauce of the Not Just BBQ Honey Mustard Sauce and vacuum the leaf. The heart of the artichoke is delicious to eat on its own or add it, sliced, to a salad.
Serve hot. Enjoy!
Result salmon fillet roll-ups
4. Forel ‘En Papillotte’ in Butcher Paper op de barbecue
Trout is a perfect fish for a hot summer evening barbecue. Just keep the fish whole and let the natural flavours come out with fresh herbs, our fish spices and a fresh lemon and presto your dish is ready. Just a few minutes on the barbecue.
The ‘En Papillotte’ is an easy and no-fail method of preparation. Your dish is folded in Butcher Paper which steams it and prevents it from becoming dry. In the package you can add your herbs, butter or something like small tomatoes or mini potatoes and let it cook along. Easy does it! Our Not Just BBQ team tried our new Butcher Paper during our summer team-bbq day. Watch the video and let us know how you experience fish on the BBQ.
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Ingredients
- Fresh Trout 2
- 1 Lemon
- Full-cream butter
- Fresh herbs like rosemary, tarragon or flat parsley
- Not Just BBQ Fish Grinder
- Not Just BBQ Himalaya Pink Salt
- Not Just BBQ Black Pepper
Necessities
- Kamado or #weber barbecue
- Coals, Not Just BBQ Firestarters, etc. for preparing your BBQ
- Cutting board
- Sharp knife
- Barbecue tong
Preparation method
>> Watch our step-by-step how-to video recipe <<
Quick recipe steps:
1. Light the barbecue well in advance. Or as we do, first grill dishes that can stand a higher temperature and finish off with this quick and light fish.
2. Start your BBQ with our firestarters. 3. Wash and dry the trout.

4. As soon as the coals turn white and have no flame, add the Fire Herbs or Smoke Chunks between the coals. It smells so good!

5. Place the trout on a piece of Butcher Paper, large enough so that you can wrap the trout later.

6. Meanwhile, insert fresh herbs and lemon slices into the belly of the trout.

7. Season with the Fish Grinder, add extra Himalaya Pink Salt and Pepper as you wish.

8. We added a few nice thick licks of butter just next to the trout.

9. Fold the Butcher Paper around the trout like a package. You can put some butcher’s twine around it but it is not necessary.

10. Close the barbecue and let it cook gently. After 8 minutes, carefully turn the packets over. The Butcher Paper protects the fish ‘En Papillotte’ style and ensures that the juices of the fish are preserved, but the smoke gets to the fish and gives it that extra taste sensation.
11. Meanwhile, prepare your side dish, such as small potatoes with herbs and a lovely fresh salad. 12. Simply serve the trout IN the Butcher Paper as a package and place the side dishes next to it. Bon appetit!
End result Trout ‘En Papillotte’ with Butcher Paper

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