Homemade Barbecue Sauce Recipes

Homemade Barbecue Sauce clearly fits the bill in this day and age of concerns around artificial additives, preservatives and children’s intolerance to them.

Making a homemade bbq sauce is easy and many of my sauces listed below can be made in under 30 minutes which is perfect timing for getting the charcoal up to temperature.

Many barbecue sauce recipes use ketchup as their base but I try to use a tin of chopped tomatoes and here’s why.

Tomatoes contain an abundance of lycopene, a health-promoting plant pigment that gives them their red colour. Lycopene also helps support the immune system to fight chronic fatigue, which can result in irritability and depression. It’s not often that tinned fruit or vegetables are recommended over fresh ones, but this is the case with tomatoes because they are mostly made of water and when cooked lycopene becomes more concentrated so it is easily absorbed into the system. Tomatoes also provide the anti-depressant nutrient phenylalanine, which can help to enhance your memory and concentration.

So I guess homemade barbecue sauce must be good for you too? Of course ketchup is made from tomatoes and I’m not trying to tell you it isn’t. I guess at the end of the day I just prefer the fresh taste that comes from using tomatoes.

Use this link for information about how long you can keep BBQ sauce once you've made it.

Below you'll find links to many great recipes and they're all free except for one which I've included because it truly is one of the Best BBQ Sauces that I've ever tasted.

Let's start with the absolute fundamental homemade barbecue sauce recipe

I’ve got so many more barbecue sauce recipes to share that I don’t know where to start. By the time I’m finished we’ll have done a virtual world tour and you’ll probably be fully spiced up too.

Let's start in America with some tasty traditional recipes that will certainly get those lips smackin':-

Southern Barbecue Sauce - for the lovers of Tabasco.

Memphis (Sweet) Barbecue Sauce - Flavored with molasses and pepped up with chili, try it on chicken or pork.

Alabama White Barbecue Sauce - Great on white meat and burgers, it's white because it's got a mayonnaise base.

Eastern North Carolina Vinegar Sauce - A potent vinegar mix with full on Tabasco heat!

Western South Carolina Barbecue Sauce - Subtle flavorings with a ketchup base.

Honey Barbecue Sauce - Two recipes for the price of one and both are supremely sweet.

All American Pork Paste - Use this as a marinade and also a paste. Absolutely fantastic on ribs.

Southern Style Vinegar Barbeque Sauce - Rub it into your pork butt before the cookout.

Chipotle Barbecue Sauce - Fantastically sweet and spicy thanks to those smoked red jalapeños

Cola Barbecue Sauce - Here we use cola to provide the sweetness for the sauce.

Original Kentucky Bourbon Barbeque Sauce - The original recipe for a classic taste.

Bourbon Barbecue Sauce With Dijon Mustard - You could say that this has a European flavor to it with the addition of French mustard and a shot of Balsamic Vinegar.

Sweet Bourbon BBQ Sauce - Maple syrup and molasses add a distinctive sweetness to this one.

Jim Beam Kentucky Bourbon Barbecue Sauce - so much better than anything out of a bottle and it doesn't hold back on the liquor.

OK let's go east back over the pond to Europe:-

Coffee BBQ Sauce - Hot and spicy with an espresso adrenaline kick. It's not for the faint hearted!

Mustard Barbecue Sauce - Delicious on a pork steak. Just slap it on!

Gourmet Barbecue Sauce - For those out there who thrive on gastronomy, fresh ingredients abound.

Grandma's Homemade Barbecue Sauce - Traditional flavors from traditional ingredients.

Honey Mustard Sauce - Great on pork.

Damson Jam Sauce - rich and fruity, ideal for duck.

Lime Sauce For Grilled Fish - The citrus acidity of the lime is perfect on white fish.

Marie Rose Sauce - The homemade thousand island dressing, easy to make and perfect to dip your shrimps.

Asia's a big continent and there some great barbecue sauce recipes in these two pages:-

Korean Sweet Barbecue Sauce - Sweet and flavored with soy sauce, it makes a perfect combination with beef.

Asian Style Barbecue Sauces - Packed full of those traditional Chinese it works well on all meats.

Oriental Vinegar BBQ Sauce - Sweet and sour with a kick of chili. You choose how spicy you want it.

Fusion Sauce - East meets West to produce a unique barbecue combination.

So maybe I haven't tickled your fancy yet? Well if your looking for a homemade barbecue sauce to match up to your health, fitness and wellbeing lifestyle then here are the pages for you:-

Low Carb Barbecue Sauce - Taking natural sweetness from caramelized onions, not one to try if you're in a hurry.

Sugar Free Barbecue Sauce - This sauce takes its natural sweetness from caramelized onions.

Quick Sugar Free BBQ Sauce - Use a diet cola to sweeten this one up.

Diabetic Barbecue Sauce - Another low sugar alternative.

I've saved the best 'til last. This is my Best Barbecue Sauce - all the traditional flavors are packed into this one.

Treat this as a P.P.S because how can we ignore the most obvious homemade barbecue sauce -

A Homemade Tomato Ketchup Recipe - Compared with the Heinz variety, this might just win it by a short head.

Of course, all these sauces can easily be made up and stored in the refrigerator and I think it adds great fun to any social event to have a selection of sauces on offer. Marks out of ten for consistency, colour, flavour and (where appropriate) “blow your head off” chilli heat.

Don’t forget to send me your scorecard!

More About Homemade Sauce

To write all these recipes I've taken a lot of time to learn about how to make sauces, bought books, surfed the internet etc. If you're keen to learn more then let me recommend the websites and books that I found most useful:-

How To Make Restaurant Quality Sauces - Over 75 recipes in this startling e-cookbook.

Club Sauce - Learn To Make Sauces With The Confidence Of A Trained Chef. An excellent website and well worth "joining the club"

Get Sauced up With Sass! - this site is great for learning about vegetarian and vegan cooking.

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