BBQ sauce...

[Nurian]

Making a Kansas City Style bbq sauce tonight. So far, so good. Hope a thickens a bit more, though.

[Amina516]

Sounds good.

Dont set your grill on fire....(just happened to me tonight!!! I blame hubby tho)

[Nurian]

Sounds good.

Dont set your grill on fire....(just happened to me tonight!!! I blame hubby tho)

lol, nah, not grilling tonight. Just making the sauce for future dishes

[Whiskey]

so.. recipe..

I found the offshoot brand of Kraft (cant remember it) makes a really great "KC Style" bbq sauce. No High fructose corn syrup either. It was the only one without it.

[Nurian]

Well....

2 cloves of garlic
1 big can of tomato sauce
1/2 cup of 3 pepper vinegar
1/2 cup of water
2 cups of brown sugar
salt, pepper, red pepper to taste

Brown garlic in a saucepan then add all other ingredients. Cook for 15 minutes until thickened.

I have to tweak it some. It's not thickened as much as I want. Hopefully, it'll thicken some when it cools (doubt it).

[Whiskey]

Well....

1/2 cup of 3 pepper vinegar


I have to tweak it some. It's not thickened as much as I want. Hopefully, it'll thicken some when it cools (doubt it).

where do you get "3 pepper vinegar"? Ive never heard of it. You could try throwing a bit of flour in it if it doesnt thicken up the way you like.

[Nurian]

Vinegar that has had peppers suspended in it for over a year. A friend gave me a bottle.

As for flour... nah, not this time. It'll burn off nicely when I cook with it

[Jester]

1/2 cup of 3 pepper vinegar

I cook a lot, and I've never even heard of pepper vinegar, let alone THREE pepper vinegar! Amusingly, I'm off to the grocery store, so will definitely look at the various vinegars.

It's not thickened as much as I want. Hopefully, it'll thicken some when it cools.

Probably not, though it is possible. Two ways to thicken it nicely without going the flour route:

Cook it more so it reduces more, thus thickening it and concentrating the flavors,

OR

Add a small can of tomato paste to it. Thickens it without taking any of the tomato base taste from it or adding clumps as flour might.

Impressed that you are making a barbecue sauce without ketchup. Props to you.

(For the record, the only use I can ever think of for ketchup is as a sauce base, as I really don't care for the stuff myself. That being said, I have never actually used it as a sauce base. I also have never made my own barbecue sauce. Yet.)


Edited to Add: Or next time, if you want it thicker, use more tomato sauce or less (or no) water.

[Amina516]

Recipe sounds really good.

I wonder if the pepper vinegar can be something you make yourself since no one knows WTF it is or has seen this elusive beast before.

[Whiskey]

Recipe sounds really good.

I wonder if the pepper vinegar can be something you make yourself since no one knows WTF it is or has seen this elusive beast before.

you can make it but you have to sanitize your mason jar first and im entirely too lazy to do that. Its a home made concoction im assuming, since I cant find it for sale online.

[SteeleDragon78]

1 big can of tomato sauce

2 cups of brown sugar

I have to tweak it some. It's not thickened as much as I want. Hopefully, it'll thicken some when it cools (doubt it).

was it a 28oz can or a 14? as was stated tomato paste will help thicken, adding a little molasses would help too halve your sugar and then use about 2/3 the amount of molasses

[AdminAssistant]

If it's what I think it is, pepper vinegar (aka pepper sauce) is widely available, in the South at least. (We use it to sprinkle on greens.) I think the same folks that make Tabasco makes it...I'll have to check on that.

ETA: I found some here:http://www.peppers.com/cube/Ketchup-...prod_1154.html I know that there is a national brand that makes it, I just can't find it. Apparently not Tabasco, though.

[Jester]

Ah, damn it....I was at the grocery store and completely forgot to look in the vinegar section. Fuck!

[Whiskey]

Oh ive seen that. Grocery stores do carry it.

[Nurian]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I think the tomato paste is what this batch lacked. Maybe a small can.

The can of tomato sauce was a 29oz can. I wanted to make a large batch this time.

I won't call this a failure. Far from it. Despite being watery, it's got a LOT of flavor with some heat just behind it. I have a feeling I'm going to have fun tweaking this