Carolina BBQ Sauce 2 Ways: Vinegar Pepper BBQ Sauce -&- Mustard BBQ Sauce Recipe

brown sugar

🥗Healthier: coconut sugar

💰Cheaper: white sugar

Coconut sugar has a lower glycemic index.

ketchup

🥗Healthier: sugar-free ketchup

💰Cheaper: tomato paste

Sugar-free options reduce calories.

Combine regular distilled white vinegar and apple cider vinegar in a small pot over medium low heat.

Add brown sugar, salt, paprika, cayenne, red pepper flakes, and ground black pepper to the pot.

Squeeze lemon juice into the pot and add the lemon halves.

Add about 2 tablespoons of hot sauce to the mixture.

Stir the mixture and heat until the sugars dissolve without boiling.

Let the mixture steep to meld flavors.

For the mustard sauce, add 1 cup of mustard to another pot.

Add brown sugar, black pepper, salt, a touch of hot sauce, and about 1/4 cup of honey to the mustard.

Add homemade oyster sauce and apple cider vinegar to the mustard mixture.

Stir the mustard mixture over low heat and let it steep as well.

Taste both sauces and adjust seasoning as necessary.

Remove lemon shells from the vinegar sauce and transfer both sauces into mason jars.

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