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Kansas City style barbecue sauce is the Constantinople of barbecue, where pork meets beef, and vinegar meets tomato, where sauce is spread on the meat, and where its served as a side dish.  Bottled Kansas City barbecue sauce is good, but when you make it yourself, a good barbecue sauce morphs itself into a great bbq sauce!


Special tools:  Cast iron frying pan, but any frying pan will work
Preparation time:  About 10 minutes
Cooking time:  About 12 minutes
Yield:  1 cup, about 4 servings


2 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 cup very finely diced white onion
3/4 cut ketchup
1 teaspoon  garlic, minced very fine
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon diced fresh chives,
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1 tablespoon Tabasco sauce, or Mexican picante sauce, to taste
1 teaspoon ground cumin


Heat olive oil in cast iron frying pan.  Add onion and cook over medium-high heat, stirring every minute or so, until translucent; about 4 minutes.  Add miced garlic and cook for an additional minute.  Add remaining ingredients, including Tabasco or picante sauce, and bring to a boil and boil all ingredients together for about 30 seconds. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes, while stirring mixture every 2 minutes.  

Left:  The wet ingredients are mixed together, and the garlic, onion and fresh chives are on the plate at the side, ready to be mixed together.  Right:  All ingredients are mixed together and are cooking on the stove.


If you cook the onions just right, this barbecue sauce will have a little bit of "crunch" which is something that you won't find in the bottled stuff that you purchase at the grocery store.

Sure, many times I use the bottled sauce, as it has preservatives and it will keep in the refrigerator for several weeks.  However, if you're anticpating a meal, event or whatever that requires a finite amount of Kansas City style barbecue sauce, forget about the bottle and make your sauce using my recipe.  You'll never open a bottle again...

Photo:  The finished product.  After making this recipe and enjoying homemade Kansas City style barbecue sauce, you'll leave the bottled stuff at the grocery store.

 

 


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