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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.
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Easy Homemade 3 Ingredient Barbecue Sauce Recipe
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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!
Mix all of the barbecue sauce ingredients together in a bowl or container.
Serve with barbecue beef sandwiches, slow cooked roast, ribs, chicken wings and more! Makes 2 cups.
Notes
Store this homemade barbecue sauce in the refrigerator in a sealed jar or another container.
If you use fresh garlic, it will last a week in the fridge.
If you use garlic powder, it will last 3 weeks. It might possibly last longer, but I’d stick with 3 weeks to be safe.
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Grandma’s Easy Barbecue Sauce Recipe
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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!
Author:Jill Cooper
Yield:3 cups
Ingredients
2 cups ketchup 1 1/2 cups brown sugar 1 Tbsp. onion, finely chopped or 1/2 tsp. onion salt 1/2 tsp. garlic powder 2 Tbsp. liquid smoke
Mix all of the barbecue sauce ingredients in a bowl.
Place in a jar and store in the refrigerator. Makes 3 cups.
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Hickory Barbecue Sauce Recipe
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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.
The base ingredients of barbecue sauce usually include tomato sauce or ketchup, vinegar, and sweeteners, such as molasses or brown sugar. Other common ingredients include Worcestershire sauce, mustard, garlic, onion powder, and various spices, which can include paprika, cumin, and chili powder.
The base for most BBQ sauces is tomato—many start with tomato paste, some with canned tomato sauce or purée. For this recipe, we use ketchup as the base for because it doesn't require cooking.
While it depends on what you're cooking, there are some general rules when it comes to BBQ sauce. Most sauces have a high sugar content which can easily get coagulated or even burn during a long cook or high sear. So apply the sauce at the end of your cook with just enough time to cook it and set it without burning it.
Take a tip from North Carolina and look to vinegar—white vinegar, apple cider vinegar—as the key to great barbecue sauce, cutting its sweetness and lending a little tang.
Ingredients vary, but most include vinegar or tomato paste (or a combination) as a base, as well as Worcestershire sauce, liquid smoke, onion powder, spices such as mustard and black pepper, and sweeteners such as sugar or molasses.
Found in the eastern half of both North and South Carolina, Eastern-style vinegar sauce has the unique honor of being the oldest barbecue sauce in the country. Given its origin in the 13 colonies, it's literally where American barbecue was born, at the hands of enslaved chefs.
Unlike many modern sauces, the eastern-style uses no tomato, relying instead on a tart combination of vinegar (usually cider vinegar) and added spices like cayenne, black pepper, crushed red pepper, hot sauce (often Texas Pete), salt, and sometimes water.
There are three sauces we make VERY frequently when catering and running events: Veloute, Bechamel, and Hollandaise. All culinary students must become very comfortable with these three mother sauces.
What are the 4 Main Types of BBQ Sauce? 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.
Tomato base: Most BBQ sauces include a tomato base, which can be in the form of ketchup, tomato sauce, or tomato paste. The tomato base provides the sauce with a rich, tangy flavor. Sweeteners: BBQ sauces commonly contain sweeteners to balance the acidity of the tomatoes and add a touch of sweetness.
The most typical type of barbecue sauce is tomato-based. The tomato in these concoctions is almost always in the form of ketchup, although there are exceptions to that. Tomato-based BBQ condiments became the most common in America during the middle 20th century.
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