Almost Bottled BBQ Sauce
A thick, glossy homemade BBQ sauce recipe that tastes like the bottle, built from pantry ingredients. Requires one pot and is ready in about an hour with lots of hands-off time as it simmers.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon avocado oil
- 1 medium-size yellow onion chopped
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon salt divided
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes
- 1/3 cup dark molasses
- 1/3 cup white vinegar
- 2 tablespoons organic sugar
- 1 tablespoon prepared yellow mustard Dijon is fine, too
Instructions
- Preheat a medium or large saucepan over medium heat. Sauté the onion in the avocado oil with a pinch of the salt until golden brown, about 10 minutes.
- Add the garlic and stir for about a minute, until fragrant. Add the smoked paprika, onion powder, allspice, and ginger and stir for 30 seconds or so to let them bloom in the oil.
- Lower the heat to medium-low. Add the remaining salt, red pepper flakes, crushed tomatoes, molasses, vinegar, and sugar, and bring to a low slow boil. Cook uncovered for 45 minutes or so, stirring with a wooden spoon occasionally. Lower the heat further if the sauce begins to splatter everywhere.
- Whisk in the mustard. Add a few cracks of black pepper if you like, then taste for sweetness/sourness. Adjust the flavors to your preferences and cook for 5 more minutes.
- Puree the mixture with an immersion blender, or if you don't have one, let it cool until you can puree in a regular blender.
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