Basic Texas-style BBQ Sauce

Is your brisket resting and you don’t have any BBQ sauce, and there’s a certain member of your household that just needs to have some sauce whenever they have BBQ? This recipe is super quick to whip up, with ingredients that you likely already have at home!

This recipe is also a fairly basic recipe that you can easily modify, dress up, and make your own! It is based on the typical ‘house BBQ’ sauces that we find here in Central Texas, and has that mild vinegar, tomato-y, just slightly sweet flavor that we find here.

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Central Texas Basic BBQ Sauce

A quick and easy BBQ sauce to kick off the summer BBQ season.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Course Sauce

Cuisine American

Servings 2 cups

Equipment

• small saucepan

Ingredients

  

• 1 stick butter unsalted
• ¼ yellow onion diced
• ¾ cup ketchup
• ¼ cup apple cider vinegar
• 1 oz light brown sugar
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp pepper
• ½ tsp chili powder
• ½ tsp garlic powder
• ¼ lemon juice

Instructions

 

• Melt butter over medium heat in a small saucepan.
• Add diced onion and saute until the onion in translucent.
• Add remaining ingredients and whisk together. Reduce over low heat for about 10 minutes.
• Allow to cool, refrigerate leftovers.

Keyword bbq, BBQ sauce