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Perfect Homemade Barbecue Sauce

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Looking for an awesome barbecue sauce recipe? Try this Perfect Homemade Barbecue Sauce. The flavors are out of this world good!

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup homemade ketchup, if you don't have homemade, use Heinz
  • 1 cup tomato sauce
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar, packed
  • 2/3 cup red wine vinegar
  • 1/4 cup molasses, unsulfered is best
  • 2 teaspoons liquid smoke, hickory flavor
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon paprika
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, or to taste
  • 1/4 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon powder

Details

Servings 3

Preparation

Step 1

In a saucepan, whisk the ketchup, tomato sauce, brown sugar, wine vinegar, molasses, liquid smoke and butter over medium-high heat. Then add the remaining ingredients and and simmer over low heat for 45 minutes.

For those that asked about canning this sauce: Omit the butter and ladle into clean canning jars while still hot. Process as pints or half pints for 20 minutes in a boiling water bath.

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