Smoked food lovers are of two camps…saucers and non-saucers. These barbeque sauce recipes are for the "saucers". (Flying saucers if the keg's been tapped!)
Sometimes You Just Gotta Slop On The Sauce!
The United States is home to a wide variety of barbeque sauces. To learn more, take a look at
Regional Barbecue Sauce Styles
. In it I describe a few of the sauces you just might encounter on a cross-country barbeque sampling vacation.
If you'd like to sample some unique sauces, give these barbeque sauce recipes a try.
A kindly gentleman that loved both Beam and barbecue was generous enough to share this recipe with me. And now, I will share his special recipe with you.
When a person is bored, they come up with ideas like this recipe. I should be bored more often. This lemony barbecue sauce tastes great on chicken, and about anything else.
This sweet and tangy red sauce includes just a touch of spiced Captain Morgan Private Stock rum, which adds great flavor. Don't worry about the alcohol...it all boils out as the sauce is cooked to thicken.
These thin consistency liquids add flavor to the smoking meat while helping preserve the moistness. Made with very little sugar, there's little chance of these scorching as the meat smokes.
One of my favorite non-tomato based sauces, the tanginess of the mustard and the vinegar is balanced by the addition of sugar. A bit of hot pepper adds a touch of heat to the party!
This very basic sauce gets back to the roots of barbecue. Vinegar was the original "barbecue sauce" way back when. This one has some sugar and spice added and is a favorite in the Carolinas.
Brush this sauce onto Jalapeno marinaded pork ribs right before serving. The sweet Jalapeno flavor is a unique experience.
They say that rules are made to be broken...and barbeque sauce recipes are made to be refined and adjusted. Any of these recipes can be a starting point for you to create your very own barbeque sauce recipe that pleases you like no other.
Make a batch by the book the first time, and as you experience the flavor, take notes about the taste. Do you want it to be hotter? Sweeter? With a bit more tang? Use these notes to make adjustments to the next batch. Repeat the process. Soon, you will have developed your very own signature recipe.
If you brush sauce onto the meat as it's smoking, do so only during the last half-hour. Sweet bbq sauces can burn rather easily. And in this part of the world, letting sauce burn on the ribs is considered rib abuse!
Mopping sauce is not so much a barbecue sauce as it is a basting liquid. It's a lot thinner in consistency and has very little sugar...you mop it on throughout the smoking session. Using
brisket mopping sauce
will keep your smoking brisket nice and moist, while adding flavor.
When I'm enjoying my barbeque, I like to have a little something on the side. A big pile of
smoky baked beans
goes along great with about any smoked food you can think of. And a few
grilled vegetables
alongside the main course completes the feast nicely!
I know that you'll enjoy trying these easy barbeque sauce recipes. Ocassionally, I will include bbq sauce recipes in my newsletter, The BlueSmoke Gazette.
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