Homemade Slow Cooker Barbecue Sauce
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Homemade Slow Cooker Barbecue Sauce is the perfect blend of sweet, spicy, and tangy flavors. Easy to make and packed with bold taste, it’s your go-to BBQ sauce for any dish!
Slow Cooker Barbecue Sauce
I’m just going to say it again: if you’re not putting this on everything you eat, you are not living!
Like, seriously! My Homemade Slow Cooker Barbecue Sauce is that good! Lincoln and I made a big batch of the BBQ Sauce for holiday gifts. It’s so easy just throw everything in the slow cooker and let time and the slow cooker do all the work.
Do you barbecue? Do you bbq just during the Summer or all year? We barbecue, grill, smoke, whatever term you use for it, all year. It’s one of the activities all four of us get involved in. A lot of our friends grill all year as well. I had a ‘light bulb’ moment and thought about making this Slow Cooker Barbecue Sauce as gifts. It was kind of a win-win for me. I got to spend time with Lincoln, and we made homemade gifts for our friends!
So. If you decide to make the BBQ Sauce and decide you like it so much you can’t give it away, that’s totally find too! Enjoy and consider it my gift to you! 🙂
Ingredients
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- light corn syrup
- brown sugar packed
- cornstarch
- chili powder
- tomato sauce
- apple cider*
- ketchup
- Bourbon
- garlic clove minced
- Vidalia onions grated
- Cavender’s Greek seasoning
- water
The longer you let it simmer the thicker the sauce will get. I like a thick bbq sauce.
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Ingredients
- ½ cup light corn syrup
- ⅓ cup brown sugar packed
- 1 Tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 8 oz tomato sauce
- ¼ cup apple cider*
- ½ cup catsup
- ¼ cup bourbon
- 1 Tablespoon garlic clove minced
- ½ cup Vidalia onion grated
- 1 teaspoon Cavenders Greek seasoning
- ½ cup water
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a slow cooker. Stir to combine. Heat to 200 degrees F. Cook 4 hours. If sauce isn’t desired consistancy remove lid and cook 1 to 2 hours longer. Stir occastional with a whisk. Bottle and store in the refrigerator.
- *For a completely smooth sauce, puree in a blender until smooth. I have left it chunky and I have pureed. It’s good both ways. When I pureed the sauce, I did so before cooking it.
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
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Your barbecue sauce sounds so flavorful! I keep wanting to make my own too, yours sounds so delicious!
Paula, this looks fabulous. I’ve made bbq sauce before (not in the slow-cooker) and loved it, but it called for liquid smoke and I wound up with a bottle of that stuff in my fridge for ages. Love that this recipe doesn’t call for things I don’t have on hand (besides the bourbon that I can borrow from a pal). Thanks for sharing. Pinned!
Thank you so much. I hate hard to find ingredients too, because, like you said they’ll be one recipe you use it in and end up wasting the rest.
Do you preserve this or just refrigerate? Could you process it in a hot water canning kettle? And does it have to be corn syrup or can it be molasses?
Molasses would be wonderful in it, I’ve never made it with molasses, but I think that’s a great idea.
I don’t preserve it. I just seal it tightly and refrigerate it. If you canned it by scalding the jars and sealing it airtight it would be fine not refrigerated. I use it too fast really to go through that though.
Your bbq sauce looks amazing Paula! I love that it’s made in the slow cooker too. My husband puts bbq sauce on almost everything and would go nuts for this 🙂
I do too, I love bbq sauce that’s why I have to do the hands-off way in the slow cooker we eat so much of it.
Looks delicious! I make homemade bbq sauce all the time, but never in the crockpot! Definitely need to try this!
I throw anything I can in the slow cooker, so easy. 🙂
This is great! We are bbq sauce lovers in this household. 🙂
Paula, I just love your blog and wanted to let you know that you are Featured Blog Of The Week on Ducks ‘n a Row this week. Got your button top of the page!
Stop by the hop tonight 🙂
Blessings
Sinea
Thank you! That is so awesome, Sinea!
Your BBQ sauce looks amazing! The kids enjoy it on almost anything!
Thank you, Serena. I’m about the same way, I love sweet and smokey bbq sauce, it just makes everything better.
What a great idea to make BBQ Sauce for gifts. Thanks for this post. Pinned.
Thank you Lea Ann. My husband’s men friends love BBQ sauce, it’s the perfect gift for them. Thanks for visiting and sharing!
I do eat BBQ sauce on everything. I also love Cavendar’s Greek seasoning from ARKANSAS but I have never used it in my BBQ sauce. Thanks for the post.
Blessings,
Diane Roark
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My husband thinks I’m strange when I put bbq sauce on baked potatoes sometimes, I do prefer butter but when I’m cutting back on fat I still need flavor!
Paula, my hubby is a barbeque junkie, so I just have to try this! It sounds awesome! Thanks so much for sharing your recipe – pinned and buffered! Hope you have a happy Monday!
YOu’re welcome Cindy, hope you enjoy and thanks for sharing!