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Barbecue sauce has become one of the most popular condiments of our time. Problem is, most of the stuff you buy at the store isn't very good and it has a very generic flavor. Making your own barbecue sauce lets you control not only the flavors, but the ingredients. Hopefully one of these recipes will suit your taste. Happy Grilling and Smoking!!
Top 10 Barbecue Sauce Recipes
Barbecue Sauces come in many flavors, styles and types. Most everyone is familiar with the thick, sweet sauces that line the shelves of grocery stores. However there is so much more to barbecue sauce than that. These 10 barbecue sauce recipes represent the most popular sauces on my site.
Top 10 Vinegar Barbecue Sauce Recipes
Vinegar based barbecue sauces come in a wide number of varieties and most people who use and love these sauces are pretty militant about how they should be prepared. Some come with tomato, others with mustard, some are spicy hot, while others are not. One thing for certain, a good vinegar barbecue sauce should give foods (particularly pork) a...
Top 10 Mustard Barbecue Sauce Recipes
Mustard based barbecue sauces find their origins in the Carolinas and are the perfect BBQ sauce for pork whether you are talking whole hog, pork shoulder, or ribs. These sauces add a savory, tart flavor to barbecue, but are also great on many foods you grill or smoke. Try a mustard sauce next time you are grilling burgers, pork chops, or even...
Top 10 Fruit Based Barbecue Sauces
Fruit based barbecue sauces are not only a unique way to add flavor to anything your grill or smoke, but are the perfect compliment for all those foods you don't want to put traditional barbecue sauces on. Expand your horizons and mix up one of these great fruity barbecue sauces for the next time you cookout.
Top 10 BBQ Chicken Sauce Recipes
Chicken is amazingly versatile because it can take on so many flavors. Whether you grill it hot (but not too hot) or smoke it low and slow, chicken is a great and inexpensive way to have a barbecue. Because chicken doesn't have a lot of flavor on its own you want a great sauce to finish it off and these 10 BBQ chicken sauces are the best I know....
Kansas City Barbecue Sauce
This version of the traditional Kansas City BBQ Sauce is a thick, sweet tomato based sauce with a touch of heat to give it a little kick. This is the perfect barbecue sauce for BBQ Ribs.
St. Louis Barbecue Sauce
St. Louis Barbecue Sauce is thinner and has more of a tangy flavor than its Kansas City cousin. Being at the crossroads St. Louis style barbecue has many influences, so there are a number of ways of making this style sauce.
Memphis Barbecue Sauce
Traditionally Memphis Barbecue is served without a sauce, but since rules are made to be broken, many Memphis BBQ Joints have sauces available, either on the side or by special order. This sauce captures the complexity of Memphis Barbecue in a rich sauce that has a mixture or sweet and vinegar with a hint of heat.
Mango Grilling Glaze
This sweet glaze has a little heat and is perfect for brushing on chicken, pork, or fish. Add it towards the end of grilling and it will cook right into the meat.
Texas BBQ Sauce
Traditional Texas BBQ Sauce is a sweet and spicy mixture of tomato, spices and vegetables. Somewhat old fashioned when compared to popular sauces of today this sauce takes a little more time but is definitely worth the effort with its rich flavor.
Spicy Apricot Barbecue Sauce
This is an excellent sauce for pork and chicken.
Horseradish Barbecue Sauce
This sauce works really well on chicken and pork ribs.
Spicy Molasses and Ginger Barbecue Sauce
This is a richly flavored sauce with some definite heat to it. If you don't want it spicy, omit the chile or subtitute with a milder pepper.
Chipotle and Red Wine Barbecue Sauce
This sauce can be used as a serving sauce as well as a basting sauce. It works well on just about any meat.
Spicy Root Beer Barbecue Sauce
If you can use cola in a barbecue, why not use root beer? This sauce works well on poultry and pork.
Apple and Curry Glaze
This glaze is best suited for grilled pork chops or chicken breast. It can be used on rotisserie chicken as well.
Chile and Beer Barbecue Sauce
This is a great barbecue sauce for pork and chicken.
Sweet Mustard Sauce
Here is a fruit-based version of a Carolina mustard sauce.
Hot Smoke Finishing Sauce
This finishing sauce is absolutely delicious! You can add it to all sorts of grilled and smoked meats.
Bourbon Sauce
This sauce works well on steaks and chops. It's does wonders for venison steaks too.
Apple Barbecue Sauce
A delicious apple-flavored barbecue sauce. This sauce would work well with pork ribs or with chicken.
Apple City Barbecue Sauce
This award-winning sauce enhances just about any barbecue. Some barbecue sauce is very thick and just sits on top of the meat. This sauce is smooth and on the thin side, and it seeps down into the meat.
Cajun Barbecue Sauce
This rich and tart yet spicy sauce is sure to liven up anything from grilled chicken breasts to pork chops.
Green Chile Barbecue Sauce
This barbecue sauce gets a healthy dose of chiles to heat it up. You can adjust the heat by using hot or mild peppers.
Hot Chile Pepper Barbecue Sauce
This barbecue sauce has a lot of flavor and a lot of ingredients. You can adjust the heat by changint the amount of peppers you add.
Strawberry Habanero Barbecue Sauce
Combining sweet with heat is a great way to get the perfect barbecue sauce. This sauce can be used on anything but is particularly good on chicken and pork.
Owensboro Mutton Barbecue Sauce
This isn't like most any barbecue sauce you have seen. This is the traditional barbecue sauce of Western Kentucky Mutton Barbecue.
Plum Barbecue Sauce
This barbecue sauce is sweet and flavorful with a great fruity flavor. You will find this is a great sauce for pork and chicken.
Black Cherry Barbecue Sauce
This sweet barbecue sauce has a great flavor from the combination of cherry soda, cherries and cherry jam. While you might think this a strange barbecue sauce the taste is fantastic and it works well on most any kind of meat.
Molasses Barbecue Sauce
This sweet barbecue sauce has a little tomato and a lot of flavor.
Honey & Boubon Barbecue Sauce
The combination of good Kentucky Bourbon with honey makes a great barbecue sauce, the likes of which have been used in the South for longer than people can remember.
Raspberry Barbecue Sauce
You can make your own raspberry vinegar by adding fresh or frozen raspberries to regular white vinegar and letting it sit for a couple of days. This recipe has a sweet, tart flavor that is perfect on pork, poultry or fish.
Country Bumpkin Squeeze Sauce
This is a recipe I got from someone's family picnic - I asked for it knowing I was never going to get it and low and behold it had already been written down for me. It is the perfect "squeeze on" sauce I have ever had.
Sweet Cherry Barbecue Sauce
This sweet barbecue sauce really is very good. Try it on chicken. Remember, since this barbecue sauce has a good dose of sugar in it you don't want to put it on foods while they are cooking because it will burn quickly. You can add it right on the end as you are getting ready to remove items from the grill.
Apricot-Habanero Barbecue Sauce
You probably didn't think about making a barbecue sauce out of fruit. Well this sauce is sweet and hot. It works perfectly on poultry and pork. If you make it in advance the heat from the habanero will have time to mix with the other ingredients.
Maple Syrup Barbecue Sauce
Mike Renchko sent me this great recipe for a thick, sweet barbecue sauce that has a great flavor. This barbecue sauce works best on pork or poultry.
Savory N Sweet Mustard Sauce
This mustard and vinegar based barbecue sauce is perfect on any kind of pork, grilled or smoked.
Chinese Barbecue Sauce (Char Sui)
The traditional Chinese barbecue sauce doesn't have any tomatoes, but it does have a lot of flavor. This thick sauce works perfectly on any grilled or smoked foods, but like most barbecue sauces can burn because of the sugar content so use it only at the end of cooking.
Best Odds Rib Sauce
This is a classic barbecue sauce for ribs. The combination of flavors adds to the ribs, but doesn't overpower them. If you add this sauce to ribs while they are still cooking make sure it doesn't burn. The sauce should be rich and thick, not black and burned.
Peach Barbecue Sauce
This is a great barbecue sauce that doesn't look anything like barbecue sauce. The sweet fruit flavors add to most anything you can grill or smoke but is particularly good on poultry.
Lee Custer's Barbecue Sauce
Lee Custer sent me this great barbecue sauce recipe. He gives you the option of using tomato paste or ketchup and while both are good they each give a unique take on the classic barbecue sauce recipe. If you haven't tried using tomato paste or tomato sauce for that matter, give it a try. You get a richer tomato flavor than with ketchup.
Robert Murch's Southern Barbecue Sauce
Robert Murch sent me this recipe for a great southern style barbecue sauce that combines tomato, vinegar and mustard into one sauce. Perfect for practically anything.
Chipotle Barbecue Sauce
This is a classic style barbecue sauce with the added smokey flavor of chipotles (smoked jalapenos). You can buy or make your own chipotles.
Mango Barbecue Sauce
This unique barbecue sauce combines fresh tomatoes with mango to make a sweet sauce heated up a little by chili peppers. This is a great sauce to add an authentic South American flavor.
Sweet Bourbon Sauce
This tomato based sauce is sweet with a tangy taste from the bourbon. A great general barbecue sauce for practically anything.
Honey Mustard Barbecue Sauce
This sweet mustard sauce works great on poultry and pork.
Burning Tomato Barbecue Sauce
This tomato based sauce has a lot of Louisiana Sytle hot sauce to give it a good heat. You can adjust that heat how you want.
Chipotle Barbecue Sauce
This barbecue sauce uses the great flavor of chipotles giving it heat and a great rich flavor. You need to rehydrate the chipotles before you make the sauce or you'll get dry chucks of chiles.
Sweet Finishing Sauce for Brisket
This is a side sauce, meaning that you put it on the table and let people add it to smoked brisket if they want. Traditionally barbecue is never made with the sauce on it. It's the diner who gets to decide about sauces.
Wicker's BBQ Sauce
This vinegar based barbecue sauce works equal well as a mop.
Sheila's Backyard Barbecue Sauce
This barbecue sauce has it all from orange juice to mustard. I suggest you make this one in large batches so you have it on hand. You can omit the liquid smoke if you want.
Barbecue Sauce Base
What to make your own perfect barbecue sauce? Try this base to get you started. This recipe will give you a good, thick tomato sauce that you can then add the flavor you want.
North Carolina BBQ Chicken Sauce
Smoked and pulled chicken takes half the time of pulled pork and gives you the fixings for a great barbecue sandwich. This sauce finishes off barbecue chicken perfectly.
Harrison Lee's Bar-b-que Sauce
This is fantastic if you are a spicy, burn those lips, fan. Great as a finishing sauce for brisket, or a hot marinade for chicken or pork ribs.
Cornell Barbecue Chicken Sauce
This is the famous sauce devised at Cornell University's Farm Home Extension sometime in the 1950's.
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