Santa Maria-Style Tri-Tip Barbecue

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This thick, triangle-shaped chopped of beef is grilled implicit reddish oak and called barbecue successful its location of Santa Maria, Calif., but it cooks and eats similar a steak. As it should, due to the fact that it is from the bottommost sirloin, which is leaner than, say, beef brisket.

You’ll request an instant-read thermometer for the steak, and you'll request 1/2 cupful of hardwood chips, specified arsenic pecan, oak oregon apple. Do not soak them.

You tin marque the seasoning hitch up to a week successful advance. Keep it successful a sealed instrumentality successful a adust place.

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6)

• Calories

  290

• Fat

  13 g

• Saturated Fat

  5 g

• Carbohydrates

  1 g

• Sodium

  650 mg

• Cholesterol

  125 mg

• Protein

  43 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Tested by Andrew Sikkenga.

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