This is a super easy BBQ sauce recipe straight outta Texas by the Pitmaster himself, Aaron Franklin. This basic sauce recipe is great to serve alongside your meat.
Whether you are a beginner looking for a simple place to start, or an advanced pit master who needs a highly customizable recipe, this will suit your needs.
Easy BBQ Sauce Recipe Video Tutorial
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Easy BBQ Sauce Recipe Ingredients
- 1/2 lb butter
- ½ yellow onion
- 1½ cup Ketchup (NO High Fructose Corn Syrup)
- ½ cup Apple Cider Vinegar
- 2 oz lightly packed Light Brown Sugar
- 1 t Kosher Salt
- 1 t Black Pepper
- ¾ t Chilli Powder
- ¾ t Garlic Powder
- Juice from ½ Lemon
Sauce Instructions
Heat up a stock pot. When it is hot, melt the butter and then add the onion. Let it cook down for a little. Add the ketchup, light brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, kosher salt, black pepper, chili powder and garlic powder. Stir up, add the lemon juice, then stir again.
Let the sauce simmer for a bit, then bottle it or use it right away on whatever meat you have on your smoker
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Enjoy!
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Two mistakes in translating this recipe from video. Wrong quantity on the butter and he calls for “no high fructose ketchup”
Thanks for your feedback Peter, we edited those mistakes, we appreciate you!
Two mistakes in translating this re iOS from video. Butter quantity is wrong, as is your call for “high fructose corn syrup ketchup”. He clearly says “ANO high fructose…”
how do you measure 2 oz of brown sugar?
Measuring cups would work.
2oz is how much? 1/4 cup? 1/2 cup?
Hi Jerry, 2 ounces equals 1/4 cup 🙂
Do yourself a favor and get a digital scale on Amazon, bout $12-15 and you will forever be grateful because you’ll use it every time you cook specially if you bake some no-knead bread to scarf with your brisket or pulled-pork. Life will never be the same. Trust me on this. 👍
Great suggestion Bob, thanks for that!
Can we replace ketchup with tomato paste? I can only find very sweet ketchup here in Thailand. Or just use that and cut down on brown sugar quantity?
Hi made this and it’s great Thank you.
On the video Aaron calls for 1/2 lb of butter but the written one on the web site says 1/4 lb. I doubled the recipe with a little more than 1/2 pound of butter and it turned out great
Thank you