Please note, this is not a tomato based barbecue sauce. this is a sauce representing the South Carolina mustard barbecue sauce. this is a good recipe of a low carb sauce, it will never be a sticky sweet Memphis style sauce or a Kansas city style, both which are based on tomatoes. In the USA there are four distinct style of BBQ. if you would like to know more about this Wikipedia has a good article.
We live low carb and this is by far the best low carb sauce recipe that I have run across. My husband just loves it. I often mix it up and throw in some boiled or grilled chicken without even allowing it to sit overnight and it's wonderful. We always keep a jar in the refrigerator. Thanks for a great recipe!
can you say AWESOME!?!?!! I needed a bbq sauce to use in the Texas Chicken quesadilla recipe so I decided to try a red sweet sauce and a mustard savory sauce. This was a winner hands down. I will be making this sauce again to try on chicken steak and ribs on the grill this summer. This would be good on sandwiches too!!
The reviewers saying this does not taste like barbecue sauce probably have a narrow definition of barbecue sauce and only know the Kansas City-style tangy tomato-based sauce and other tomato-based styles. The South Carolina style of barbecue sauce is traditionally a mustard-based sauce. Eastern North Carolina and Middle Tennessee tend to have vinegar-based sauces. This is a great South Carolina-style sauce particularly for a low-carb version. As with most barbecue sauces from the South the classic use is with pulled pork.
This the best low carb BBQ sauce recipe I've come across. I made it to go with pulled pork for a family get-together & everyone went nuts! We are usually a tomato-based BBQ family but since we've gone low carb this will be our #1 choice.
This is the first mustard based sauce I've made, and it is fantastic. I'm on a low-carb diet, so I had to forgo the usual sweet tomato based sauce. I altered slightly:
I used EZ-Sweet liquid sucralose, because "granulated Splenda"has net carbs while pure sucralose does not.
I added a tsp of both onion and garlic powder.
I only used 1 Tbsp of chili powder, and replaced the other Tbsp with chipotle powder.
I hate liquid smoke, so instead I put the sauce in a shallow cake pan and smoked it for 2 hours, stirring every 30 minutes.
It came out delicious, and made a believer of mustard base, out of 8 people. Happy cooking!
PS If you wondering what's next to the sauce in the photo, it's sea salt that I'm smoking also.
I have used only black pepper and increased that to 1.5 tsp. This really grills well particularly on Pork Tenderloin.
This tastes like sweet vinegary mustard. I wouldn't call it "barbecue sauce" at all although it might be good as a basting sauce for the grill. However I wanted to use this to add to pulled pork and it wouldn't have served that purpose. If you make this and feel like you just wasted a bunch of ingredients I'll share what I did to save it. I added 1/4 cup water 1 small can of tomato paste and a TBSP of paprika. It is still tangy and strong and you can still taste the strong mustard influence. However it has more of a traditional "barbecue sauce" flavor.
This is incredible. Ten times better than the store bought sugar free BBQ sauce.
