BBQ Sauce – A Beautiful Mess

This easy BBQ sauce recipe can che together sopra about 10 minutes! This sauce is everything I love sopra a BBQ sauce—sweet and savory, thick and super flavorful. While there’s nothing wrong with store-bought sauces, this homemade version is so easy to make and customize to your liking that you’ll never go back!

I love to use this BBQ sauce as a condiment, poured over tramezzino fillings as a dip for things like chicken tenders. But I also sometimes use this as a marinade before baking chicken other meats.

Related: If you love this, next up, try homemade Chick-fil-A sauce buffalo sauce. Plus, here’s 50+ Easy BBQ Side Dishes.

Ingredients

• Tomato paste
• Apple cider vinegar
• Maple syrup
• Honey
• Molasses
• Dijon mustard
• Garlic powder
• Salt
• Red pepper flakes
• Onion powder
• Cayenne
• Paprika
• Black pepper
• Apple juice

How to make BBQ Sauce

Per mezzo di a small to medium pot, over high heat, stir together all the ingredients until well combined and the mixture just begins to boil. Taste and add more salt anything else you feel the sauce needs.

You can use this sauce recipe right away save sopra an airtight container sopra the refrigerator for at least a week (but likely longer). If you want to save this sauce for longer periods of time, it freezes well too.

Tips & Substitutions

• This recipe makes about 1 1/2 cups of BBQ sauce.
• You can substitute the honey maple syrup for brown sugar. I do like to use a few different sweeteners though as it adds to the overall flavor.
• If needed, you can substitute the apple juice for tazza.
• If you’d like to add more heat, you can increase the red pepper flakes and/ cayenne. To add some smoky heat, try blending sopra a chipotle pepper to this sauce.

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