Easy homemade barbecue sauce
- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- no cooking required
- Serve
- Makes about 120ml/4fl oz
Homemade smoky barbecue sauce is perfect for sticky chicken wings, thighs and legs or roasted cauliflower. Make sure you get smoked paprika or you won't have that lovely smoky flavour.
Click the image to watch five more easy sauces, such as Cajun mayo, burger sauce, hot honey mustard, hot and sweet sauce and satay dip.
Ingredients
- 5 tbsp tomato ketchup
- 1 tsp mustard
- 2 tbsp treacle or maple syrup
- 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce (or vegetarian Worcestershire sauce)
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp salt
Method
Stir all the ingredients together. Use for dipping or on your favourite burger.
Recipe tips
The video shows you how to make barbecue sauce plus five other easy sauces.
There are a few types of paprika available in supermarkets and it's important to use the smoky variety as that's what gives the sauce it's smoky barbecue flavour.
You can use this barbecue sauce as a marinade, but it's best to thin it with a few tablespoons of cold water and use it on things that cook fairly quickly (the high sugar content means barbecue sauce burns easily – a little charring adds to the barbecue flavour but you don't want too much).
Homemade barbecue sauce can be made ahead and kept in the fridge for up to a week.
