Bona Fide Barbecue Sauce

Submitted by Vicki in CT

"Once you've made this homemade sauce, you'll never buy bottled again. I had to guess on the serving size. (Note - if making vegetarian, use an anchovy-free Worcestershire sauce)."

 

• Ready In: 2hrs 15mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups onions, chopped
• 6 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 1⁄2 cups brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 1⁄4 cup black pepper
• cayenne pepper, to your taste
• 4 1⁄2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• 3 tablespoons vinegar
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• 3⁄4 cup Worcestershire sauce
• 48 ounces ketchup
• 48 ounces water

directions

1. Sauté onion and garlic in butter until limp.
2. Add remaining ingredients and simmer on low heat for 2 hours uncovered while stirring occasionally.
3. After reading a review, I made this today by chopping my onion in the food processor quite fine before sautéing. Wonderful, and less chunky. 10-21-07.

Reviews

[Tisme]

I also cut the recipe in half, and found out I should not have!!!! I made my sauce in a processor and it turned our fantastic. Everone in the family loved it, & what wonderful flavours Vicki! I will be making this again, I would love to be able to bottle this and keep it on hand it is so wondefuly good! Will be making again. Thank You Vicki.

 

[Christopher in Colo]

Cut recipe in half. Very good. Iadded alittle mollases to the brown sugar and pureed onions after browning.

 

[Peter J]

Wonderful sauce that I thought had a nice amount of spiciness without being too over the top. I used a little while cooking some beef and kangaroo for roti wraps and then used extra sauce in the wraps which worked terrifically. Rather than puree I went with a slightly chunky version by dicing the onion very finely.

 

[Mommy Gwyn]

This goes great with the ribs my husband smokes. I recommend pureeing the sauce as most people loved the flavor but didn't like the garlic & onion chunks in it. I added 1/2 tsp of cayenne pepper & it had a nice kick to it!

 

[johnny s]

i made this recipe for my barbeque chicken. it is awesome. thank you vicki in ct. i have been trying alot of sauce recipies, and this is the one!!! it is spicy, and it is the BOMB!!!! it gets better and better each day it ages! johnny s