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Top 10 Barbecue Sauce Recipes

Most Popular and Best Barbecue Sauce Recipes

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Barbecue Sauces come in all kinds of flavors, colors, and types. Everyone knows the thick, sweet sauces found on the shelves of most grocery stores. However, there is so much more to barbecue sauce than these bottled condiments. These 10 barbecue sauce recipes represent the best and the most popular sauces on my site. From thin, vinegar sauces to thick, tomato sauces to mustard based sauces there is something for every kind of barbecue and for everyone. Try something new and make a new kind of barbecue.

1. Big Daddys Carolina Style Barbecue Sauce

Big Daddys Carolina Style Barbecue SauceRegarding BBQ, Inc.

Big Daddy says, "This is Carolina style barbecue sauce." This means that it is vinegar and mustard based, as opposed to the ketchup and molasses based sauces of the mid and southwest. The combination of sweet and tangy flavors brings out the absolute best in grilled or smoked pork or chicken.

2. Kansas City Rib Sauce

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This is a rich, thick, tomato based barbecue sauce recipe often associated these days as Kansas City Style. You get that traditional combination of sweet with a touch of heat in a dark and thick tomato sauce. Adjust the heat by changing the amount of cayenne.

3. St. Louis Barbecue Sauce

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St. Louis Barbecue Sauce is thinner and has more of a tangy flavor than its Kansas City cousin. Being at the crossroads, St. Louis style barbecue has many influences, so there are a number of ways of making this style sauce, but this sauce has many of the elements that make up St. Louis Barbecue.

4. Classic BBQ Rib Sauce

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There is a flavor that is great BBQ Ribs. This sauce helps you get there, whether you smoked your ribs low and slow for hours, or baked them in the oven. This BBQ Rib Sauce has a touch of heat, a touch of smoke, and a lot of flavor.

5. Memphis Barbecue Sauce

Traditionally Memphis Barbecue is typically served without a sauce, but since rules are made to be broken, many Memphis BBQ Joints have sauces available, either on the side or by special order. This sauce captures the complexity of Memphis Barbecue in a rich sauce that has a mixture or sweet and vinegar with a hint of heat. A good Memphis Barbecue Sauce is thinner than most tomato based sauces

6. Piedmont Barbecue Sauce

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This is a classic Carolina style Barbecue Sauce. Typically, served on smoked pork (at the table), this thin, vinegar based sauce has tons of flavor. This vinegar BBQ sauce comes from the region of the Carolinas north of the mustard belt. This sauce gives food a tangy flavor, perfect for pork, but simply put, a great sauce for almost anything.

7. Mustard Sauce

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If you haven't tried a mustard based barbecue sauce then you are really missing out on something. This sauce works well with almost anything, but particularly pork. This is a variation of a favorite sauce from the western part of the Carolinas and Northern Georgia. This is a great way to add a savory flavor to almost anything, but this sauce was invented for smoked pork.

8. Jack Daniel's Rib Glaze

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Use this barbecue sauce toward the end of cooking and keep the temperature low. You want the sauce to cook on the surface of the ribs, but you don't want it to burn. With the long simmer time of this sauce, the alcohol is going to evaporate, leaving behind a hint of whiskey flavor.

9. Best Odds Pulled Pork Sauce

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This is the sauce you add to a pulled pork after it has been smoked and pulled. It is best to combine it with the pork in a large saucepan or a slow cooker over low heat. This vinegar BBQ sauce had a hint of heat and a little bit of sweet that makes it a perfect sauce for pork.

10. North Carolina BBQ Chicken Sauce

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Smoked and pulled chicken takes half the time of pulled pork and gives you the fixings for a great barbecue sandwich. This sauce finishes off barbecue chicken perfectly. This vinegar based BBQ sauce has everything you want on smoked chicken, a tangy vinegar taste, a hint of sweet, and a savory combination Worcestershire and steak sauces. This helps keep this chicken tasting smoky.

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