No more tubes – we want to make our barbecue sauce ourselves from now on! We’ll show you how easy it is in six delicious recipes (with and without yoghurt). With a good barbecue sauce, many a botched piece of steak or sausage can be saved. The spices are often the best thing about grilling.
The Benefits Of Homemade Barbecue Sauce
It makes a big difference whether you choose store-bought pastes or whether you make your barbecue sauce. In terms of taste and health, many ready-made sauces are full of artificial flavours, stabilisers, colourings, and sugar.
With a homemade barbecue sauce, you decide how much sugar goes in. You can also flexibly choose how hot the sauce should be. Even the quantity can be increased or decreased.
Adapt the barbecue sauce recipes to your eating habits. Those who live vegan, for example, use soy yoghurt and a plant-based milk alternative to classic cow’s milk.
Barbecue Sauce Recipes: Interchangeable Basics
In addition to homemade dips such as aioli, hummus or guacamole, most barbecue sauce recipes can be divided into two categories. Once red sauces are based on tomatoes, the light spices are prepared with sour cream, yoghurt, mayo, or creme fraiche.
It is usually enough for a delicious barbecue sauce to fold in fresh herbs (preferably from your garden) and season with salt and pepper. In addition to evergreen garlic, the following flavours are also suitable for spicing up the sauce.
Mediterranean Barbecue Sauce Spices:
- oregano
- thyme
- rosemary
Oriental BBQ Sauce Spices:
- (Cumin
- pimento
- nutmeg
Indian BBQ Sauce Spices:
- curry
- turmeric
- fennel
Asian BBQ Sauce Spices:
- coriander
- chilli
- Ginger
Grilled fruit such as bananas, pineapple or melon can be refined with sweet barbecue sauces. What works is fresh whipped cream or a homemade syrup made from pureed fruit, lemon juice, and honey. Of course, you can also deglaze the baked fruit with a liqueur or drizzle it with sugar syrup. You boil the ratio of half-half sugar and water.
Sweet Barbecue Sauce Spices:
- vanilla
- Cinnamon
- cardamom
Make Your Barbecue Sauce: The Smoky BBQ Classic
When it comes to spicy barbecue sauces, the barbecue sauce with its classic smoky aroma is way ahead. It would be best if you had a little patience to make your barbecue sauce. Unlike most quick yoghurt or tomato sauces, it is heated on the stove.
The video above shows you how to conjure up a delicious BBQ sauce with espresso. The recipe comes from the book “Project Fire: The best grilling techniques and 100 irresistible recipes for beginners and professionals” by Steven Raichlen. You can also order the cookbook with many ideas and recipes for grilling in the embers, on the rotisserie or on the plancha right.
Aren’t you the barbecue sauce fans? Then try one of these five barbecue sauce recipes.
Make Your Barbecue Sauce: Chimichurri
Chimichurri is beautifully herbal and just as easy to make yourself as a pesto. Argentinian steak sauce is traditionally eaten with meat. Still, it also goes great with hamburgers, as a marinade for fish or other seafood, and with potatoes and grilled vegetables.
You Need These Ingredients:
- 80 g olive oil (extra virgin)
- 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
- 50 g parsley (chopped)
- Three garlic cloves (chopped)
- 1/2 tsp chilli (chopped)
- 1/2 tsp oregano (dried)
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- pepper
Chop all the ingredients finely – preferably in an electric chopper – mix, season with pepper and leave to infuse for at least an hour (overnight is better).
Tip: If you like Asian, you can add some fresh coriander to the chimichurri. Other herbs can also be used as leftovers.
Make Your Garlic Barbecue Sauce
Were you grilling without Kofi? Inconceivably. And that’s precisely why here is a simple basic recipe that you can use to make your garlic barbecue sauce. It tastes like in the kebab shop and refines meat, fish, and flatbread, no matter how dry.
You Need These Ingredients:
- Three tablespoons of mayonnaise
- Six tablespoons of plain yoghurt
- Two garlic cloves (chopped)
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1 tbsp chives
- pepper and salt
Mix all ingredients and season with pepper and salt. Pour into a mason jar and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Make Your Own Sweet Chili BBQ Sauce
Your grilled food gets an Asian touch when you dip it in a sweet and sour sauce. As with the barbecue sauce, you have to turn on the stove to make the chilli barbecue sauce yourself, but it’s worth it. It is best to pre-cook a large amount and pimp the wok pan with it in everyday life.
You Need These Ingredients:
- 60 g rice vinegar 60
- 90 grams of water
- 50 g brown cane sugar
- Two teaspoons of light soy sauce
- Two garlic cloves (chopped)
- 1 tsp Sambal Oelek
- One pinch of black pepper (or cayenne pepper)
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp water
- Put the rice vinegar, water, sugar, soy sauce, pepper and garlic in a non-stick pan. Melt the sugar over low heat, stirring constantly.
- Then turn the stove up to medium-high and let the sauce simmer for 2 minutes. Add sambal oelek and stir. Mix the cornstarch with one teaspoon of water until there are no lumps. Let the chilli sauce cook for 5 minutes until it is as creamy as desired.
- Rinse glass jars with hot water and pour in the sauce. Close with a lid and let cool at room temperature. The homemade chilli grill sauce will keep in the fridge for two weeks.
Tip: For a quick homemade chilli sauce, mix 60 g ketchup with 30 g honey, 1 tbsp rice vinegar and 2 tbsp soy sauce. You can also easily make ketchup yourself!
Make Your Pomegranate And Tomato Barbecue Sauce
This homemade barbecue sauce is perfect as a fruity-oriental counterpart to grilled lamb, chicken or even salmon and grilled cheese. The mint and pomegranate seeds make it taste surprisingly fresh and sweet. The chopped tomatoes support the salad feel.
You Need These Ingredients:
- 5 tbsp tomato paste
- Two cocktail tomatoes (or one large vine tomato)
- 1 1/2 tbsp olive oil
- ½ pomegranate
- ½ shallot
- Juice half a lime
- 1 tbsp fresh mint (chopped)
- curry powder, salt and pepper
Cut the fresh tomatoes into small pieces and remove the seeds. Mix in the tomato paste and lime juice. Cut the shallot into small cubes and stir them into the tomato sauce and the pomegranate seeds and mint—season with curry powder, salt and pepper to taste.
Make Your Coconut Curry Barbecue Sauce
Sure, honey-mustard dips go great with fish. If you want something a little more exotic, you can mix yoghurt, coconut milk, lime and curry paste into a barbecue sauce that tastes like summer and holidays. But not only fish goes well with it, but also meaty or vegetarian.
You Need These Ingredients:
- 150 g natural yoghurt
- 3 tbsp coconut milk
- 2 tbsp green curry paste
- 1 tbsp lime juice
- One stalk of lemongrass (chopped)
- 1 tsp honey
- 1/2 tsp ginger (chopped)
- salt and pepper
Mix all the ingredients, fill them into a container and place in the fridge until the barbecue sauce is ready to use. Enjoy the meal!
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