Carolina Style Mustard Bbq Sauce

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups prepared yellow mustard (french's)
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 cup tomato paste
• 5 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
• 1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper (can adjust to desired heat level)
• 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

Recipe

• 1 combine all ingredients in a saucepan & whisk over medium heat.
• 2 once the sauce is simmering, whisk until the sugar dissolves completely. this should take 5 minutes or less.
• 3 do not overcook (sauce requires less time simmering if sugar substitue is used).
• 4 remove from heat and cool before using.
• 5 store sauce in a sterilized glass jar in the refrigerator between uses.
• 6 (i sterilize a suitable empty bbq sauce bottle by capping with 1/2 cup of cider vinegar inside it, swirling it by shaking several times over a few days, & then draining well when ready to fill with bbq sauce.).
• 7 optional: in place of the light brown sugar, use 1/2 cup of sugar substitute + 1t molasses. the sugar substitute version (which i now keep on hand) is diabetic friendly & easier to adapt to sugar substitute than most tomato based sauces i have attempted to modify & encountered consistency problems.