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Cane Sauce (For Dippin' Chicken)
photo by sloe cooker
- Ready In:
- 3mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
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2-3
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup mayonnaise
- 1⁄4 cup ketchup
- 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper, to taste
directions
- Combine all ingredients, mix well. Add additional pepper if desired.
- You can serve immediately, but it will taste better if the flavors are given the chance to "meld" in the fridge for a few hours (or days) before serving.
Reviews
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With the measurements as is it didn't taste the same. I had some Cane's sauce from the restaurant next to me so I was A/Bing the whole time. Right off I could see that with a 2:1 ratio of mayo and ketchup and the amount of Worsershire sauce as listed the sauce color was lighter than the real thing. So I added more ketchup and a little more Worcestershire sauce. Not sure how much, kept adding and tasting until color was right and flavor was less mayonaissey. Then I add more pepper to taste (as advised by the recipe) until I got the appropriate amount of bite. At that point the taste was virtually identical side by side with the real stuff. Just know though that identically following these proportions will not get you the exact thing both visually and taste-wise. It could just be that I needed to add more Worcestershire instead of both that and ketchup but it tasted right to me.
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Tweaks
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Ok so after a few iterations this is what I came up with. Same as above but with 1 tsp garlic salt, and 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce. It seems pretty clear that the garlic salt and, mainly, the Worcestershire sauce are the two ingredients that really give Canes sauce it’s zing. For me this recipe seemed to lack that zing so I added more. Also as mentioned elsewhere it seems that best practice is to let marinate for at least 24 hrs. Currently experimenting what happens if I leave it longer.
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I combined Emily's and Clayton's tweaks and it was close, but in my side by side tasting I felt there was a hint of smoke. I added some liquid smoke (hickory) and IMO it was exactly what it needed. The smoke smoothed out the flavors a lot and made it very similar to the original sauce from our local Cane's. Tweak summary: 3/4 TBSP Worcestershire sauce instead of 1/4 tsp. 1/2 tsp garlic powder and 1/8 tsp salt instead of the garlic salt (I actually omitted the salt entirely). 1/8 tsp-ish of liquid smoke (hickory)
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Secret ingredient = Sweet white wine vinegar of Modena. It's not the cheapest item at the grocery store, but it will keep forever in the refrigerator, and 1 bottle will be good for right around 1,340 gallons of canes sauce. Add about ½ tsp. Also ? instead of ½ cup ketchup, a little more worcestershire spell-check sauce, and 1 tsp water. It tastes exactly like, yet slightly better than, Cane's sauce. I call it Co-Cane's sauce.
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Like others, I had the original sauce to compare to when I made mine. I was halving the recipe so I used 1/4c Olive Oil Mayo and 2T ketchup to start with. It was redder than the original, so I added 2T Mayo. I added just a dash of salt, about 1/2t black pepper, 3/4t garlic powder, and 1/2t Worcestershire sauce. It didn't taste exactly like the original, it has a slightly milder taste, but I thought it was pretty close.
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