BBQ Sauce for Ribs and Pulled Pork

Here is a recepie of my standard BBQ Sauce for Ribs and Pulled Pork that has never failed me …

At the moment this blog has a lot of BBQ content, but this will change in the near future!
For me it is important that basic recipes are well documented. I had them written down in a small book at home. But it was always annoying sending it around, making a copy or a picture. So now it is time to put it on my blog and refer to it 😉

Let’s start with the BBQ Sauce:

Ingredients:

• 2 cups tomato ketchup
• 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
• 8 tbsp brown sugar
• 3 tsp worcestershiresauce
• hotsauce – spice it up as much as you like
  
• 2 tsp kosher salt
• 1 tsp mustard seed
• 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
• 1 tsp liquid smoke hickory

Preperation:

• Put ketchup, sugar, worcestershiresauce, salt, pepper, mustard seeds and the liquid smoke in a pot and start warming it up slowly.
• Slowly add the vinegar. You should do this in small steps and taste in between. Some people dont like a sauce with too much vinegar. – In general this is not easy. The BBQ Sauce tastes different on meat and the vinegar does not taste that strong then…
• If you think you had added enough vinegar, it is time to spice it up with the hotsauce. – Be careful! It burns twice!
  
• I let the sauce simmer for about 15-20 min or so with the lid closed. – It is important that you reach a boiling temperatur so that the mustard seeds can deliver their aroma.
• Now it is time for the BBQ Sauce to cool down a bit. You can fill it into some jars then.
• I guess,because of the vinegar, the BBQ Sauce should be good in a fridge for a couple weeks.

Suggestions:

1. For Partys: Fill the BBQ Sauce in a skull bottle. I put the spiced up version in a skull bottle just to differ from the normal version.
2. The BBQ Sauce in combination with the Killer Hogs BBQ Rub is awesome!
3. Try the BBQ Sauce on a burger!