Uncle John’s Sweet / Hot Dipping Sauce for Meat

"This is an attempt to duplicate a sauce sold locally here in my area called "J Lee Roy's Sweet/hot Dipping sauce". I have never been able to find a recipe, and long hours of experimentation has, I think, brought me pretty close. It is very good when you're serving fried pork or chicken I haven't tried it with beef. But it is also good with polish sausage."
 
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Ready In:
30mins
Ingredients:
12
Serves:
6

ingredients

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directions

  • Place water, chili powder, cumin, garlic, sugar, molasses, salt and red pepper flakes into saucepan or in microwave. Heat until the mixture comes to a boil and completely dissolves into like a syrup-like consistency.
  • Then, lower heat to medium-low or even simmer.
  • Add tomato sauce and catsup, cover and let simmer, stirring occasionally, until the mixture turns a bit darker color. Don't heat on too high of heat or you may burn the tomato component of this sauce. Let simmer very low for long enough to make the sauce thicker (in other words on LOW heat reduce the sauce).
  • When done, remove sauce from heat and let cool to almost room temperature.
  • Add vinegar and smoke flavor. (Do not add while sauce is too hot as this destroys the vinegar's potency).
  • Stir well and test for final balance of
  • sweet/hot (sweet component should not be much in evidence, just add a tang to the sauce, the sour should not be pronounced. To adjust sweet, add sugar a tablespoon at a time if needed when you taste test it. To add tang, do the same with vinegar, spices, sweetness and heat. You can add a dash of Tabasco sauce.
  • If sauce still isn't hot (spicy) enough, rather than add more red flaked pepper, add a dash or two of Tabasco sauce or Sri Racha Asian hot chili sauce.
  • Place sauce in covered container to refrigerate.
  • **Note: The amount of heat you like (red pepper heat) varies from person to person. So before using the full amount of the pepper listed in the recipe, you might experiment first on a half batch or quarter batch of this sauce and start out small on hot pepper and increase to where you like it. You should be able to taste the 'bite' of the hot pepper through the sweetness of the sauce.

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Reviews

  1. I made this sauce to have with chicken, and it was wonderful! Just enough sweet to make you smile, and just enough hot to contrast and make it interesting. There is a great combination of flavors and this a sauce we will try using as a sauce for bbq chicken too. Whether you use it to dip or as a coating on your ribs, pork, beef or chicken, it's all good! Thanks for sharing with us Tiomarrano! Made for My-3-Chefs 2008.
     
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<p>I am currently retired and trying to salvage our <br />family heirloom recipes that my mother left 40 years ago hand written on now fading recipe cards. <br /><br />I would like to share some of these recipes with the general public. Of course they reflect the old high fat 'un-healthy style of cooking done fruequently in those days. So, if you see something you like, feel free to try to modify it to a more healthy modern equivalent if you don't think it will hurt anything. I see it this way: recipes are guidelines, not commandments.</p>
 
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