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Easy Bourbon Barbecue Sauce

August 10, 2020 · 2 Comments

bourbon and ribs with barbecue sauce

I have a confession to make this week.  When I cook barbecue for people, they just assume I made the sauce and most of the time I don’t correct them.  They seem so touched that I slaved all day smoking their meal and then mixed up a sauce from scratch.  If I’m truthful though, I rarely feel like messing with the sauce after smoking all day.  Luckily, there are a bunch of better sauce makers than me that are willing to bottle their product. When I am feeling saucy though, this bourbon barbecue sauce recipe is really simple to throw together.  Bourbon, ketchup and brown sugar form the base.  If I have everything listed below in the cupboard, then great.  If not, I make the base and then add and taste until I get the results I am after.  So get creative with it….or just keep pretending that bottled sauce is your recipe.  By the way, this may be my shortest recipe yet.  I could drag it out, but you have other things to do, right?

 

bourbon and ribs with barbecue sauce
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4.8 from 5 votes

Easy Bourbon Barbecue Sauce

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup Bourbon whiskey (like Four Roses)
  • 1 cup ketchup
  • 1/4 cup dark brown sugar, packed
  • 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoons dijon mustard
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

Instructions

  • Combine all ingredients in a small sauce pan.
  • Bring to a simmer gently (so we don't burn all of that sugar).
  • Simmer for 10 minutes, stirring often.
  • Brush onto your favorite protein right before it is done cooking.
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  1. Steve says

    August 12, 2015 at 1:26 pm

    5 stars
    Have enough bourbon for the cook

  2. Stephanie says

    May 30, 2016 at 11:48 am

    5 stars
    Turned out great. My first time making homemade bbq sauce
    I doubled the recipe, added a tsp of onion powder and a tsp of paprika. I used Jim Beam. My family loved it.

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