Homemade Barbecue Sauce Recipes Add Fresh Flavor To Your Smoky Meats (2024)

Even though some meats are fine as they are, straight from the smoker, some just taste better with a little sauce. This collection of barbecue sauce recipes provides a range of flavors that pair well with a variety of smoked meats.

Having the ability to make a delicious sauce is critical in high-class cookery. Making a great tasting barbecue sauce for your smoked ribs might not have the same importance, but a good tasting sauce can sure make a difference.

Many store-bought sauces are fine to use, but you might have to try several mediocre bbq sauces before finding a few that please your discriminating palate. Another option is to make your own homemade barbecue sauce.

A Variety of Barbecue Sauce Recipes for Whatever You're Cookin'!

Sometimes You Just Gotta Slop On The Sauce!

If you'd like to sample something a little different than store-bought sauces, give one or two of these sauce recipes a try. Serving a great tasting sauce that you made with your own two hands with your smoked meats makes the meal all the better!

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Odds and Ends - Ham Glaze, Mopping Sauce And a Basic Vinegar Sauce

Cherry Mango Salsa Recipe

Use it as a topping, a side dish or a dip for chips. This bright cheery fruit salsa recipe goes well with most of your smoked meats

When I first made cherry lime ham glaze it was love at first taste! I found that it's great on any type of pork. It's even good on my morning toast!

Most anything you smoke can be basted with a mop sauce, which adds flavor and help build up a nice bark. The vinegar sauce can also be used to baste meats, and is most often used on pork shoulders.

A Brand New Barbecue Sauce Recipe - Spicy Cherry Pork Sauce

Although it's not technically a barbecue sauce, the cherry sauce I whipped up was the perfect match to the pasilla chile pepper pork loin I smoked yesterday.

Here's the recipe ingredients and instructions.

• 6 cups pitted and halved sweet red cherries
• Juice and zest of 1/2 a lime
• 2 teaspoons minced fresh ginger
• 1 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
• 3/4 cup white sugar
  

Combine the cherries, lime zest and juice, ginger, pepper and sugar in a large sauce pan. Bring it all to a gentle boil over medium heat. Continue cooking until it has reduced by half.

Chill it, bottle it, and use it. The cherry sauce (or jam, or preserves... whatever you wanna call it) tasted great on my pork loin slices. The black pepper gave it both flavor and heat, and the ginger was subtle in the background.

It might have been a little too limey, but the extra tartness worked well with the spicy pork. I might cut the amount of lime juice and zest in half next time I make it.

I even tried a spoonful of the sauce in my evening bowl of plain yogurt with walnuts. Pretty tasty!

Refining a Recipe To Make It Your Own

Make a barbecue sauce recipe "by the book" the first time, and consider the taste. You might decide it needs a little something more (or less)in the flavor department.

Too sweet? Cut back on the sugar.Lacking that celery taste that the sauce you grew up using had? Add alittle celery salt. Not spicy enough? Boost the amount of black pepperor add a pinch of ground cayenne pepper.

And when you'veperfected your recipe, put some up in half-pint or pint sized canningjars. A bottle of your special sauce would be a greatly appreciated giftfor a birthday or at Christmas time!

Finishing Up With Saucy Tips

If you brush sauce onto the meat as it's smoking, do so only during the last half-hour. Sweet sauces can burn rather easily. And in this part of the world, letting sauce burn on the ribs is considered rib abuse!

Mopping sauce is included with these barbecue sauce recipes, but is not so much a sauce as it is a basting liquid. It's a lot thinner in consistency and has very little sugar. Mopping it on during the smoking session will keep your smoking brisket nice and moist. It'll add some flavor, too.