Sweet and Spicy Maple BBQ Sauce Recipe

Sweet and spicy maple BBQ sauce with a little tangy flavor too. Get ready to grill and bring on the heat and sweet! | ethnicspoon.com

Sweet and Spicy Maple BBQ Sauce Recipe

A sweet and spicy BBQ sauce to add a bit of zing to your favorite grilled items. Here is a super easy homemade BBQ sauce for chicken, ribs, pork chops or pulled pork.

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Course: Sauce

Cuisine: American

Keyword: bbq, bbq sauce, grilling, homemade, summer

Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 35

Total Time: 45

Servings: servings

Calories: 223kcal

Author: Analida Braeger

Ingredients

2 Tbsp vegetable oil
½ onion medium sized, diced
2 garlic cloves minced
½ tsp ginger ground
¼ tsp thyme
1 tsp Kosher salt
1 ¼ cup apple juice
2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 cup maple syrup
2 Tbsp tomato paste
3 Tbsp hot sauce Texas Pete hot sauce works nicely
1 Tbsp brown sugar
¼ tsp Worcestershire sauce

Instructions

In a small sauce pan on medium heat vegetable oil. Saute onions and garlic until translucent. Sprinkle ginger, thyme and salt. Pour in apple juice, apple cider vinegar, and maple syrup. Mix in tomato paste, hot sauce, brown sugar and Worcestershire. Stir until well blended.
Using an immersion blender break up as much of the solids as possible. Allow it to come to a boil for about 2 minutes.
Turn heat down and cook uncovered for about 35 minutes.

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