Homemade Barbecue Sauce

Making delicious food from wholesome ingredients is key to eating healthy. Most store bought BBQ sauces contain fructose corn syrups and a chemistry degree is required to interpret the ingredient label. Here is a homemade barbecue sauce recipe that I like to use for ribs, chicken, and sometimes burgers.

Ingredients

1/4 cup diced onion
2 cloves garlic, minced
1-Tbsp Avocado/Olive oil
3/4 6oz can tomato paste
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup vinegar
2.5 tbsp molasses
1 Tbsp brown sugar
3 tbsp whiskey or bourbon
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper (dash)
1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp salt

Directions

In a medium pan cook onion and garlic in hot oil until tender
Stir in tomato paste, vinegar, brown sugar, molasses, cayenne, Worcestershire, and Salt
Bring to boil, reduce heat simmer for 30 minutes. Depending on how thick you’d like the sauce, you may want to add a couple tablespoon of water.

The key to this recipe is to cook off the whiskey and use water to control consistency.