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QUICK 3-Ingredient Barbecue Sauce (So GOOD…You’ll Never Use Store-Bought BBQ Again!)

April 9, 2022 by Wendy

QUICK 3-Ingredient Barbecue Sauce (So GOOD…You’ll Never Use Store-Bought BBQ Again!)

If you love southern-style home cooking, then don’t miss this easy homemade barbecue sauce! It’s super quick and easy, and everyone has the ingredients right in their pantry! So, if you find yourself with an empty bottle of Sweet Ray’s BBQ or Kraft sauce, no worries! Because, you can make this in a snap.

Barbecue sauce is a tasty addition to a whole bunch of favorite dishes. You can use this to marinade meat or as a dipping sauce. It’s perfect for chicken, beef, fish, hamburgers, seafood or even vegetables!

Why Make Your Own Barbecue Sauce?

There are lots of reasons to make your own barbecue sauce. Firstly, you’ll save a ton of money. For example, this recipe costs pennies to make compared to pre-made sauce which costs dollars. Typically, we pay for convenience and that holds true for prepared sauces as well.

Secondly, have you ever read the ingredients list in barbecue sauce? If you want simple ingredients to avoid those long chemicals you can’t pronounce — then make it yourself! It’s better for you to avoid all that stuff. If you’re thinking prepared mustard and ketchup has preservatives, then you’re right. Some do! However, you can buy ketchup with no high fructose corn syrup. Or, better yet — make your own!

Now, mustard on the other hand is much cleaner. For example, French’s brand prepared yellow mustard contains only: Distilled Vinegar, Water, #1 Grade Mustard Seed, Salt, Turmeric, Paprika, Spice, Natural Flavor, Garlic Powder.

Of course, brown sugar is pretty straight-forward. The ingredients in brown sugar are refined white sugar and molasses.

And thirdly, this is a great recipe to have on hand when you run out of store-bought barbecue sauce! It’s quick, easy and uses ingredients on hand.

About the Ingredients

As I mentioned above, one of the reasons to make your own DIY Barbecue Sauce is to avoid a lot of bad ingredients. Another reason is that you can alter it to get the taste you want.

I used light brown sugar this time, but if I have it I’ll use dark brown sugar. Dark and Light Brown Sugar are mostly interchangeable in recipes. Dark Brown Sugar just has a richer concentration of molasses in it. So, in this recipe, using dark brown sugar will give you more flavor.

Storing Homemade Barbecue Sauce

Unlike store-bought BBQ sauce which may contain a lot of preservatives, homemade barbecue sauce is going to be fresher and healthier depending on the ingredients you use to make it. But, as great as that sounds, you will want to remember that you can’t store this as long as name-brand barbecue sauces. Of course, you’ll want to store it in the refrigerator, similar to those big name brand bottles. But, unlike the name-brand sauces, your homemade sauce will not last for a year in the fridge. We’re talking a week to 10 days for homemade, versus 7-10 months for prepackaged after its opened. So, don’t make too much. But, don’t worry, it’s yummy and it’ll get eaten up!

 

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QUICK 3-Ingredient Barbecue Sauce (So GOOD…You’ll Never Use Store-Bought BBQ Again!)


  • Author: gimmie
  • Total Time: 2 minutes
  • Yield: 1.5 cups 1x
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This quick & easy homemade barbecue sauce has only 3 simple ingredients. Save time, money and eat cleaner with my tips!


Ingredients

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  • 1 cup ketchup
  • 1/4 cup prepared yellow mustard
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar (light or dark)

Instructions

Add ingredients to a medium-size bowl.

Whisk together until smooth.

Use in your favorite recipe!

Notes

Dark brown sugar will give a richer, deeper flavor because it contains a higher concentration of molasses.

  • Prep Time: 2 minutes
  • Category: Sauces
  • Cuisine: American

Keywords: barbecue, bbq, sauce, sauces, easy, quick, simple, clean

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Chocolate Covered Strawberry Trifle Dessert Recipe

May 15, 2015 by Wendy

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Jell-o Dessert Recipe

The other day I woke up with an idea to make dessert reminiscent of chocolate-covered strawberries, but something that could be displayed in my cool dish and could feed the masses with it’s sweet goodness.

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I didn’t want to use that strawberry goo (glaze?) they use to make quick strawberry pie like. And, I didn’t want to have to cook it like you do to make strawberry pie filling. I wanted my berries firm and fresh! Yum!

I bought sugar-free everything to make this sinfully decadent treat something I could actually eat and enjoy without feeling guilty!

Here’s how to make this astonishingly good chocolate-covered strawberry dessert.

Seriously, this stuff is AMAZING!

And, I’m not just saying that because I invented it. (I Googled it, I think I really did come up with this! If nothing else, I haven’t seen it anywhere else… It’s an original idea, even if someone else did do it before me.) 😉

First, since I wanted to use my cool dessert bowl, I made a lot. You can make a little or a lot. For example, you could make 1/4 this much using just one box. But, I made up 4 boxes of sugar-free gelatin (like Jell-o). The package said to boil 1 cup water per package, mix well with the powder, and then add 1 cup of cold water. It takes up to 4 hours to set. If you’re in a hurry, you can use ice cubes and it will set faster – as quickly as 20 minutes.

While my Jello-o was gellin’, I hulled 2 lbs of fresh strawberries (hulled is fancy talk for removing the green things – the stems – from the strawberries). I used my nifty huller thingy my sister gave me, or you could use the drinking straw trick (but I’ve only gotten that to work with a rigid or glass straw, and then the whole middle of the strawberry stuck in the straw, which is weird). But, I digress. Hull the strawberries, then cut them in half.

When the Jell-o started to get firm and was no longer watery, I folded in the cut strawberries. I used a lot, you wouldn’t have to. But, I wanted this to be more of a strawberry pie filling effect and less of a Jello with a few pieces of fruit.

Now, put the dessert back into the fridge and let it completely gel. You want the Jello to bounce back when you touch it. No watery, no goopy, just good ol’ firm Jello.

While I waited for the Jello to firm, I made a batch of sugar-free chocolate pudding.  I used instant, so it was ready in about 20 minutes. When the Jello was firm, I piled the pudding on top and smoothed it around. Lastly, I topped with non-dairy whipped cream (like Cool Whip) and put back into the refrigerator to chill.

The result? It’s beautiful in my new dessert bowl. I’m so happy with how it turned out! And, it tastes amazing! Everyone had seconds (and thirds) and raved about how yummy, light and fresh it tasted. It would be a great dish to bring to a potluck summer barbecue or a 4th of July picnic!

Reader-submitted ideas we love:

…put the pudding mix into some heavy whipping cream, whip it until you get chocolate cool whip and top it with that – Christina

…layer chocolate whipped cream in the middle, so you don’t get half way down and all the chocolate and whip cream is eaten away with only strawberries/jello left – Kristina

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Chocolate Covered Strawberry Jell-o Dessert Recipe


  • Author: Wendy
  • Total Time: 1 hour 5 mins
  • Yield: 16 1x
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Sugar Free Chocolate Covered Strawberry Jell-o Dessert Recipe! Beautiful and tastes great! Light and fresh taste. For potluck summer barbecue or picnics.


Ingredients

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  • 4 boxes sugar-free strawberry flavored gelatin (aka Jell-O)
  • 2 lbs fresh strawberries, hulled and cut in half
  • 1 box sugar-free chocolate pudding
  • 1 cup non-dairy whipped topping (aka Cool Whip)
  • water

Instructions

  1. Prepare gelatin (1 cup boiling water per box + 1 cup cold water – or ice to set faster), set in fridge
  2. Rinse, hull and cut strawberries
  3. When gelatin starts to firm, fold in fruit with spoon; put back in refrigerator
  4. Prepare pudding as directed, put in fridge to chill
  5. When gelatin has solidified completely and pudding is firm, pour on pudding and smooth
  6. Add whipped cream to top
  • Prep Time: 5 mins
  • Cook Time: 1 hour
  • Category: Dessert
  • Cuisine: American

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