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BBQ Sauce Recipe

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smitty250

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You know i was hesitant to try and make my own for a number of years....  I guess I was just afraid that I couldn;t make a really good BBQ sauce on my own.  After reading through a number of cook books and checking out the recipies I just went for it.  I only added stuff that I liked, so it went rather well.  If you are going to try making your own, you might want to add your ingrediants over an instant readout scale.  Mine is digital like the one Alton Brown has on his show.  I just started adding my stuff and kept a log.  My luck I got it right on the first try and will NEVER go back to the bottled stuff again.  We spend a lot of time on perfecting our meats and getting them perfect, why not spend the time and make your own sauce??  I have three types, sweet, mild and hot.  The sweet I mainly use on my ribs.  The other two I offer to people that feel the need to sauce there meat.  I personally never like BBQ sauce on my meat until I made my own.  Now, a little dab of the hot, a little is all you need (no point in calling it hot if you don't need some ice cream the next morning), and the pulled pork and brisket is awsome.  Give it a try.  I regret not trying to make my own sauce a long time ago.  Then you can make it as thick or as thin as you want.

As far as using Ketchup is concerned, if you are going to be adding tomatoe sauce, sugar, vinegar and other spices, cook for a really long time, using it is only a time saver.  It isn't a base flavor in my sauce, molasses takes that cake, but I use it for the tomato flavor instead of cooking it for hours.  I can make a batch in about 20 minutes instead of a couple of hours doing the same thing.  Just a thought on ketchup.

Thanks for the insight. I think I will try making my own soon.
#16 - July 20, 2009, 08:50:51 am
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BBQ Sauce
This is my all purpose BBQ sauce especially good with beef. I don't compete with this sauce, but it is pretty good!

1 medium onion, chopped finely
4 cloves of garlic
4 cups beef stock
1/4 yellow mustard
2 cups Ketchup
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2 tbsp good quality soya sauce
2 tbsp liquid smoke
1 tbsp molasses
3 tbsp dark chili powder
2 tbsp garlic powder
2 tbsp onion powder
2 tbsp black pepper
1 tbsp sea salt
1/2 tsp cayenne
1/2 tsp all spice
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp mace
1/2 tsp celery seeds

Heat some olive oil in heavy large pot over medium-high heat,  add your onions cook until brown, then add the garlic and cook for 1 minutes. Put everything else and simmer at low heat uncovered for about 30 minutes.
#17 - October 29, 2009, 12:59:38 pm
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azkitch

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When we first went to RD, we bought a large can of Hunts Ketchup. A few days ago, I finally broke down, found a recipe that sounded good, made it. Tasted like ketchup. Yuk. I added 2 types of vinegar, threw in some brown sugar--neither in the original recipe--then took a portion of that out, messed around with mustard or wooster (I know), some this and that. I kept fair notes on it, and I think I can do it again. But I still like QN4U's sauce.
#18 - February 19, 2010, 11:20:01 pm
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For cooking, lower and slower. For spices, mo' hotter, mo' better. Habaneros rule!

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