BBQ Sauce. Chef John's Alabama White BBQ Sauce. See how to make what Chef John calls a "devastatingly delicious marinade, basting sauce, and serving sauce." Big Al's K. I use a pinch of cayenne because of the kids, but this is far better than ANY store-bought recipe.

Bring mixture to a boil, reduce heat to simmer. Take that bottle of store-bought sauce and throw it in the trash. BBQ sauce is one of those topics that people can become really, really passionate about. You can have BBQ Sauce using 5 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of BBQ Sauce

You need 1 cup of apple sauce.
It's 1/2 cup of ketchup.
Prepare 1 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
Prepare 1/3 cup of lemon juice.
You need 1/3 cup of Whiskey.

There are the regional camps of North Carolina style BBQ sauce, Kansas City style BBQ sauce, white Alabama BBQ sauce, and then the Memphis style with no sauce at all (well, maybe just a smidge). Forget honey: tamarind, a fruit used frequently in Asian and Mexican cuisine, is the key to this unique BBQ sauce's tart, tangy flavor. Texas-Style BBQ Sauce We love a barbecue sauce with all the right moves: ketchup, mustard, lemon juice, chili powder, Worcestershire and brown sugar. —Sandy Klocinski, Summerville, South Carolina St. Louis-style barbecue sauces are thinner and tangier than those served in Kansas City.

BBQ Sauce instructions

Mix all ingredients.

This recipe presents the perfect combination of flavors to make St. Barbecue season approaches, and with so many barbecue sauces on the market, it can feel impossible to choose. Many homemade BBQ sauce recipes call for using ketchup as the base. This BBQ sauce is made without ketchup, because I wanted to use all real food ingredients in my recipe. Instead of ketchup, I use a combination of tomato paste and water to make a homemade BBQ sauce that is thick and rich.