Ackerman’s Chipotle Rub

Directions

• Step 1 Rub pork chops and grill them. Serve with a basic red chile sauce.
• Step 2 Pan roast chilies and oregano until fragrant. When cool, grind in spice mill with garlic and salt.
• Step 3 For the sauce, stem and seed the dried chilies. Toast them in a heavy skillet until fragrant.
• Step 4 Grind when cool in a food processor. Add tomatoes, garlic and chipotle. Add enough water to make it pour able. Strain in a food mill.
• Step 5 Pour it back in the skillet and heat to bubbling. Salt to taste. Sugar to taste, if necessary.
• Step 6 The rub is good on chicken too.
• Step 7 Start a lump charcoal fire, put the chicken in the cold cooking chamber, throw on heavy apple wood smoke initially and slowly ran the temp up to 350F over 1.25 hours.
• Step 8 The chicken will be moist with a crispy skin.