Here are 3 easy homemade barbecue sauce recipes that are tasty and quick and easy to make. One is my grandmother’s barbecue sauce recipe, The others are recipes I use when making brisket or bbq little smokies. They’re all tasty recipes great for when you don’t have any barbecue sauce on hand or if you like a cheaper homemade option that you can modify to your own taste!
All 3 of these barbecue sauce recipes in this post are from volume 1 of or Dining On A Dime Cookbook.
This easy homemade barbecue sauce uses just 3 ingredients that you probably already have on hand. It’s just as tasty as the store-bought barbecue sauces. Make it if you don’t have any barbecue sauce on hand or if you just want to save a little money making your own!
Here is Grandma’s easy homemade barbecue sauce recipe! It’s quick and easy to make with ingredients you already have on hand, so you can mix it in a hurry or make it ahead of time and keep it in the refrigerator!
This homemade hickory barbecue sauce recipe makes a delicious barbecue sauce that gives a smoked hickory barbecue flavor to barbecued meats. It’s easy to make with ingredients you probably already have, so it’s especially great if you don’t happen to have any barbecue sauce on hand!
Author:Jill Cooper
Yield:3 1/2 cups
Ingredients
1 (20 oz.) bottle ketchup 1 tsp. salt 1/2 cup water 1 tsp. onion powder 1/4 cup cider vinegar 1-4 tsp. liquid smoke (to taste) 1 Tbsp. brown sugar, packed 1/8 tsp. garlic powder 1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
Blend all of the barbecue sauce ingredients in a blender until smooth.
Store in the refrigerator.
Use on anything you want a barbecue flavor. Makes 3 1/2 cups.
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Stephanie Raffaele
This barbecue sauce sounds so good! I love that it uses fresh grape jelly and of course bourbon is always a nice addition!
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Mary Ann Smith
I make this all the time. My daughter just came up for Christmas dinner and said my grandson told her to get recipe. She gave him store brand BBQ sauce and he asked what it was. Lol. Recipe was sent to her. By the way it’s also the only one I eat!
Combine brown sugar, ketchup, vinegar, water, and Worcestershire sauce in a blender.Season with mustard, paprika, salt, pepper, and hot pepper sauce.Blend until smooth.
Adding garlic or onion powder are standard flavors for barbecue, but get a little creative and try out different chile powders, peppers, cumin, or dried herbs to add body to the sauce.
Ingredients vary, but most include vinegar or tomato paste (or a combination) as a base, as well as liquid smoke, onion powder, spices such as mustard and black pepper, and sweeteners such as sugar or molasses.
It's all relative, but most pitmasters agree that balance is key to a great barbecue sauce. Most sauces are made with a tomato base, vinegar, some sweetener like honey or molasses and an element of heat. From there, sauces are fine-tuned with spices and flavors, such as mustard, garlic, fruit and smoke.
By far the most common type of barbecue sauce is the tomato-based sauce. And although there are exceptions, the tomato in these sauces is almost always in the form of ketchup.
In a medium saucepan, stir together all of the ingredients: tomato sauce, tomato paste, apple cider vinegar, maple syrup, molasses, Worcestershire, smoked paprika, dry mustard, garlic, salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper. Bring to a simmer over medium heat.
This sweet-and-savory Homemade BBQ Sauce Recipe tastes so much better than store-bought, and it's cheaper too. Best of all, you can make it with better ingredients and fewer preservatives. Watch the video tutorial and see how easy it is.
If you want to use ketchup as a substitute for barbecue sauce, you can mix it with other ingredients, such as vinegar, brown sugar, and spices, to create a similar flavor profile.
You might try 2TB Flour and a 1/4 cup cold water and mix thoroughly before adding to the BBQ sauce. Depending on the type of BBQ sauce you are wanting, other ingredients can be added as well to some mixtures to add a bit of thickness, such as; tomato paste, or honey.
You can get an outstanding two- or three-ingredient BBQ sauce with a vinegar base. Most of these rely on apple cider vinegar and crushed red peppers for the main flavor, plus salt because salt makes pretty much any food taste amazing.
Generally, barbecue sauces is categorized into four varieties: tomato-based sauces, vinegar-based sauces, mustard-based sauces, and mayonnaise-based sauces. Each category can have a range of BBQ sauce styles, ranging from sweet and tangy to hot and spicy.
Generally, barbecue sauces is categorized into four varieties: tomato-based sauces, vinegar-based sauces, mustard-based sauces, and mayonnaise-based sauces. Each category can have a range of BBQ sauce styles, ranging from sweet and tangy to hot and spicy.
Sauces intended for grilling should contain less sweeteners (usually brown sugar or molasses) than barbecue sauces. Sugar will burn over the direct heat and leave you with a bitter taste.
It is because of the ingredients, most BBQ sauce has molasses in it, which is a by product of making refined sugar. Because of the ingredients the color is different, as it changes from the tomato like vinegar flavor towards the deep richer sweetness of molasses.
Focus on searing the meat and then cooking it until it reaches a safe inside temperature at the thickest part. Sauces are best applied near the end of cooking to prevent burning. Only baste it with sauce during the final five minutes of cooking. The taste will blow you away without any burned mess on your grill.
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