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EASY Blender BBQ Sauce

Loves!! It’s time for some easy, homemade, vegan, healthy blender BBQ sauce!

This week’s recipe is brought to you by one of my dear friends who is also a FANTASTIC nutritionist. Suzanne Pirkle is a gifted female- and you know how I feel about supporting the amazing creative women we have in this world- and she has BLESSED us with a month full of healthy, fun recipes to feed you and your family! So make sure you check out her site for more info!

Homemade Barbecue Sauce

Starting with this fantastic barbecue sauce. Oh, and you don’t EVEN have to turn on a stove to make it. YOU MAKE IT IN A BLENDER. It’s as simple as pouring your ingredients and blending. Brilliant! Plus, you may already have all of these things on hand! (Especially if you are like me and find that you can put applesauce  in pretty much anything to make it taste great).

Why, might you ask, would I make this homemade? One- it tastes amazing. But two- a lot of the barbecue sauces you find in the store have sugar or high fructose corn syrup listed as one of the first ingredients (some even, according to Suzanne, have modified food starch). So this way you can make your own, it’s super simple, and it has all the good stuff in it!

Also- you guys- have you subscribed to the Luv Cooks YouTube channel yet? If you haven’t, you TOTALLY should, so you can stay up to date on all of these fantastic barbecue recipes as they are released! This month we will have a TWO ingredient slow cooker BBQ chicken, plus FIVE different ways you can eat that chicken in a week! So get ready, ’cause it’s going to be a barbecue party around these parts!

Homemade Barbecue Sauce

EASY Blender Barbecue Sauce (brought to you by Suzanne Pirkle!)

What You Will Need:

  • 1 cup filtered water
  • 6 ounces tomato paste
  • 1/2 cup organic applesauce
  • 3 tablespoons molasses
  • 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon onion powder
  • 1 tablespoon garlic powder
  • 3 tablespoons dijon mustard
  • 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil

What You Will Do:

  1. Pour all ingredients into a blender and blend until completely combined. Store in a glass jar in the fridge until ready to heat up and eat!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White BBQ Sauce

Pure, saucy deliciousness
Pure, saucy deliciousness

Y’all, if there ever was a sauce that is as loved or divisive in the South- maybe as much or more than how you take your tea, which football team you cheer for, or who you invited to your last get together- it’s white BBQ sauce.

Your standard BBQ sauce is essential for any proper barbecue, of course.  Whether it’s sweet, spicy, tomato-based or laced with vinegar, frankly, that’s up to you. But white BBQ sauce? I land on it’s side. To me, that sauce is the piece de resistance, the cherry on the sundae, the touch that brings all of the smoky, juicy flavors of barbecue to their pinnacle.

And the power of a good white BBQ sauce doesn’t just end with the meats. In fact, I am such a fan of this sauce that I feel it absolutey necessary that I list my top five favorite foods to douse it with:

1. Smoked chicken (specifically from here, Oh my Lord, is it goooood!)

2. Scrambled eggs

3. White sticky rice

4. Mashed potatoes

5. Sandwiches of any type (BLT, turkey, ham, roast beef, etc.)

The possibilities are endless, and this sauce is oh-so-easy to make. Therefore, I highly recommend you spreading the white BBQ luv and making some for Labor Day weekend.

Without further waxing of the bbq poetic, I give you a slightly tweaked version of the white bbq sauce from Southern Living. For those of you who don’t know about this magazine, their look is absolutely lovely and reminds me of home. Oh, and check out The Daily South for a daily dose of all things Southern and fabulous. It’s currently a standard site in my blog feed!

I hope each of you takes time to get away, love on those around you, and eat some delicious food this weekend. Topped with white BBQ sauce, of course.

White BBQ Sauce

White BBQ Sauce (This recipe is tweaked a bit from the version here from Southern Living)

What You Need:

  • 1 1/2 cups plus 1-2 tablespoons mayonnaise; I prefer Duke’s
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon coarsely ground pepper
  • 1 tablespoon Creole mustard (I used Zatarain’s)
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon white sugar
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 2 teaspoons prepared horseradish

What You Will Do:

1. Whisk together the 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise, water, vinegar, pepper, mustard, salt, sugar, garlic, and horseradish.

2. Taste your sauce and see what you think. I like mine a bit creamier, so I whisked in about 1 1/2 tablespoons more mayonnaise.

3. Enjoy and serve alongside anything you choose! Can’t wait to hear what your fellow tasters think.