Chicken Brunswick Stew

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If this was supposed to have a certain kind of BBQ sauce, why don't they specify that? Before I even made it I was changing the recipe to leave out the sugar and add vinegar. I used a bit more worcestershire too as the ketchup and Sweet Baby Ray's was over poweringly sweet. Probably won't make this again

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Where to start?
Too sweet in general with all that sugar and ooh, the barbeque sauce, yuck. And no lima beans? Lima beans are a very important, crucial ingredient. I like it with just chicken, bone in, canned tomatoes, corn kernals, preferably fresh from the cob (Never creamed corn - again double yuck, a box of frozen lima beans, some onion, chopped fresh hot pepper (or dried pepper flakes, a bell pepper, chopped, and for seasoning, a bay leaf and salt and black pepper. It is delicious and fresh tasting that way. And better for you. And some cubed potatoes you want. Plainer the better. This is country cooking.

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I would skip the 1/3 cup of sugar. Otherwise, it would of been really good.

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I am from South Carolina and have tried numerous unauthentic recipes. This one suffers from the typical problem - the wrong kind of BBQ sauce. The key to real Brunswick stew is to use Carolina vinegar-based BBQ sauce, NOT thick, red tomato based sauce. Bull's Eye make a bottled sauce called "Carolina Style" and it works beautifully. Use a roasted chicken (shredded, corn, carrots, okra, beans, 1/2 can roasted tomatoes, garlic, ginger, Worchestershire sauce, molasses,
1/2 can Campbells' Tomato soup (undiluted, and 1 to 2 cups of the Carolina BBQ Sauce. Then enjoy the "real thing" !

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We made this with grilled chicken, steak, and pork and it was great. Left out the added sugar since bbq sauce and ketchup already has sugar. Since we don't eat rice, we added a can of great northern white beans. Yummy!!!

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Tho this is good,,,, the people who live in brunwick county Va. know the real deal.You must taste the stew cooked at the world championship stew cook off, held the 2nd week end in Oct. in Brunwick County ,Va. then you know you have tasted the original. and the BEST.

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This soup is just like I remembered it from my childhood. The previous review has got it right, you have to use a vinegar southern style barbecue sauce to get this right. I used my own for the stew and it makes all the difference. Very tasty recipe.

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I don't want to speak for Paula and I have not seen her make this, but I think I figured out what is wrong.... and it is us, not her.

Paula is a southern gal. For some reason we all assumed BBQ sauce meant tomato based, midwestern style BBQ sauce, including those of us in the South.

I tried this recipe and was extremely disgusted by the results. I questioned 1 tablespoon of vinegar... didn't seem to be enough. I came here to see the reviews and when I saw that someone added their leftover pulled pork and it turned out fine, I broke out laughing.

There's a huge difference between tomato based BBQ and southern vinegar / hot sauce BBQ. That's why so many here were saying it was too sweet, too much ketchup, too much BBQ,not hot enough, no kick, etc. If using the southern style vinegar based bbq, you need the sugar and only one tablespoon of vinegar with the ketchup to balance it all out. Using the Southern bbq also means the hot / kick is already in it. That also would explain why you need a little bit of liquid smoke.

Try it again using the southern vinegar based bbq sauce and it will be just right! I made a huge pot again with this one change and it is divine!

Also, thanks to the guy that suggested mashing one of the cans of lima beans. That really helped with the thickening and texture.

(Still giggling that so many of us Southerners missed the bbq reference

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For someone who lives so close to Brunswick I expected something a lot better. It's not bad, it's actually pretty okay, but this is not real Brunswick stew. Its just a weak recipe, if I wanted bad shortcuts I'd watch Sandra Lee.

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If you want a GOOd recipe for Brunswick stew, check out the Clonial Williamsburg cookbook. Takes a little longer to make, but the flavors are OUTSTANDING!!!!