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Maple Bourbon BBQ Sauce

Name: Maple Bourbon BBQ Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 32 oz bottle Ketchup; 4 Garlic cloves (or 1 Tbsp minced/powder); 1 cup Brown sugar; 1 cup Apple cider vinegar; ½ cup Worcestershire sauce; 4 oz Bourbon (or ½ can of your favorite beer); 1 Tbsp BBQ seasoning; 2 tsp Cayenne pepper; 2 tsp Smoked paprika; 2 tsp Onion powder; 2 Tbsp Frank's Red Hot; ½ cup Honey (habanero honey used); ⅓ bottle Apple cider adult beverage

A from-scratch bourbon BBQ sauce finished with honey — the base sauce behind the smoked whole chicken. Mix and taste as you go; make it yours.

🥃 Bourbon-based 🍯 Honey finish ⏱️ ~5 min prep · ~1 hr simmer

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Dipping a piece of smoked chicken into a bowl of maple bourbon BBQ sauce, with the pot of sauce and the smoked chicken in the background

Instructions

Mix

Combine all ingredients. Taste and adjust as you go — make it to your liking.
Simmer

Simmer for about an hour, stirring every so often.

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