Eastern NC BBQ Sauce. Vinegar-based sauce prepared with crushed red peppers, apples, and spices. Perfect for marinades, oven, slow cooking and grilling. Typically, Eastern NC sauce only consists of vinegar, sugar, salt and hot sauce/peppers.

I've lived there all my life and have never had one that contains ketchup. There are lots of BBQ Sauce recipes out there, but I love the vinegar based NC sauce. It is very wet, and is great on pulled or chopped pork. You can have Eastern NC BBQ Sauce using 7 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Eastern NC BBQ Sauce

Prepare 1 cup of cider vinegar.
It's 1/3 cup of water.
It's 1/2 tbs of molasses.
It's 1/2 tbs of corn syrup.
Prepare 1 of ⁄2 tbs Worcestershire sauce.
Prepare 1/4 tsp of red pepper flakes.
It's 1 of ⁄2 tsp kosher salt.

Combine the white vinegar, cider vinegar, brown sugar, cayenne pepper, hot pepper sauce, salt and pepper in a jar or bottle with a tight-fitting lid. I cant give you a full recipe but I do know it's heavy on the vinegar. I really don't care for it all that much. Ah.now I feel like I've really accomplished something.

Eastern NC BBQ Sauce step by step

Put in bottle and shake to blend. Ready to use after about 3 days..
Probably doesn't need refrigeation but we keep it there..

From my uncle's own recipe (or one of them, at least). I knew there was a reason I went home for Thanksgiving. The original, Eastern North Carolina BBQ sauce flavor. Eastern Carolina BBQ Sauce - Carolina Vinegar Barbecue Sauce Recipe. Another North Carolinian here - great Western NC-style Dip!