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Kelly's BBQ Sauce

Kelly's BBQ Sauce

A tangy homemade barbecue sauce found on Kelly the Kitchen Kop's website. Mix it up well, do lots of taste testing, and play around with it until you like it.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Servings: 1 quart
Course: Sauce
Cuisine: American
Calories: 750

Ingredients
  

  • about ¼ cup brown sugar or honey
  • juice from 2 organic lemons
  • 2 tablespoons raw apple cider vinegar
  • 1 24-ounce bottle organic ketchup
  • 2 tablespoons mustard
  • ½ teaspoon onion powder
  • 3 tablespoons tamari (fermented soy sauce)
  • kosher or sea salt, to taste (do not use iodized salt)
  • ½ teaspoon paprika

Method
 

  1. Mix all the ingredients in a big mixing bowl, or use a stand mixer to make short work of it.
  2. Taste, and add small amounts of whatever is needed until the taste suits you.

Nutrition

Calories: 750kcalCarbohydrates: 193gProtein: 14gFat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 9520mgPotassium: 2126mgFiber: 4gSugar: 147gVitamin A: 4004IUVitamin C: 28mgCalcium: 140mgIron: 4mg

Notes

This makes a lot of sauce; you may want to halve the recipe.
Use glass jars to store the leftover sauce if possible. Plastic generally does not keep the sauce well since it is porous.
This is great on hot wings, too.
Gregg reconstituted about ¼ cup raisins in some of the vinegar and then blended it into a raisin paste, which he added to this recipe. It gave the sauce a much more "traditional steak sauce" type flavor and added some body. It tasted great on root beer barbecue beef sandwiches.

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