Truly Yummy BBQ Sauce

Truly Yummy homemade BBQ sauce that’s gluten free and dairy free. Perfect for burgers, chicken, steak and more.

My Truly Yummy BBQ Sauce is a rich, smoky, gluten free and dairy free sauce that takes your barbecued meats to the next level. It’s delicious with rump steak, chicken, fish, my Truly Yummy Beef Burgers or even drizzled over some new potatoes.

Once you’ve tried homemade BBQ sauce, it’s hard to go back to the bottled versions. This sauce is packed with flavour and has a depth that shop-bought sauces simply can’t match.

I grew up with this recipe, as my mum started to make it in the 70’s after discovering it in a Woman’s Own magazine many years ago. Over time, she added her own twist by using my Dad’s homemade strawberry and rhubarb wine instead of the red wine vinegar. A change that gave the sauce a distinctive flavour. 

Today I either use red wine vinegar or, if I have a little red or white wine left in the bottle, I’d replace the vinegar with that instead.

Over the decades this sauce has never failed to impress family and friends. In fact, I’d recommend doubling the recipe to make sure there’s enough to go round. 

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Truly Yummy BBQ Sauce

Gluten free and dairy free BBQ sauce. Recommended ingredients olive oil, onion, garlic, red wine vinegar, cold water, Coleman's English Mustard Powder, dark brown sugar, lemon slices, bay leaves, cayenne pepper, Henderson's Relish, M&S Only 8 Ingredients Tomato Ketchup, Mutti Double Concentrate Tomato Purée, Salt & Pepper.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 25 minutes mins

Total Time 30 minutes mins

Course Sauce, Side Dish

Cuisine English

Servings 6

Equipment

• 1 large shallow pan and lid

Ingredients

  

• 1 tbsp olive oil recommend extra virgin or avocado oil
• 1 onion, peeled and finely diced
• 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
• 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
• 150 ml cold water
• 1 tbsp English Mustard recommend Coleman's English Mustard Powder mixed with water enough to make a tbsp of mustard
• 2 tbsp dark brown sugar
• 2 slices of lemon
• 2 bay leaves, dried or fresh
• 1 pinch of cayenne pepper
• 2 tbsp Henderson's Relish
• 6 tbsp tomato sauce recommend M&S Only 8 Ingredients Tomato Ketchup
• 2 tbsp tomato purée recommend Mutti Double Concentrate Tomato Purée
• Salt & Pepper

Instructions

 

• In the shallow pan heat the oil and gently fry the onion and garlic until soft.
• Add the vinegar or wine, water, mustard, sugar, lemon, bayleaves and cayenne pepper. Mix and bring to boil then simmer for 15 minutes with the lid on.
• Stir in the remaining ingredients together with a grind of salt & pepper and simmer for a further 5-10 minutes until the sauce has heated through. If a little thick add a little more water.
• Pour into a serving bowl or sauce boat and serve with your favourite BBQ food.

Notes

Please be aware some English mustards contain wheat flour therefore it is safer to use mustard powder as it is 1 ingredient. Mix it with a little water to get the consistency of mustard.

Although the recipe usually calls for Worcestershire sauce, I use Henderson’s Relish as it does not contain any allergens unlike Worcestershire sauce which contains barley malt vinegar.

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