Healthy BBQ sauce recipe
Who doesn't like BBQ sauce? Sweet, spicy and sometimes it just gives that extra wow factor to a dish. You can eat it with various dishes such as the 'Meatloaf' that is also on my blog, but also with potatoes or over a salad. It does not always have to be an unhealthy variant, because this BBQ sauce is completely healthy. Pure, no crazy additives and only whole foods.
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What do you need to cook Healthy BBQ sauce recipe
- 240 ml tomato sauce
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 60 ml apple cider vinegar
- 15 ml maple or agave
- 45 grams of brown sugar or coconut blossom sugar
- pinch of salt, paprika powder and onion powder
- Cumin
- Cayenne pepper
- White pepper
- 15 ml lime juice
- 1 pepper in adobo sauce
- 5ml olive oil
- Coriander
- Cornstarch
Kitchen supplies
Preparation of Healthy BBQ sauce recipe
- Mix the cornstarch with some water until smooth and set aside.
- Place all ingredients for the sauce in a blender and blend until smooth. Add spices in preferred amounts.
- When everything is mixed together, put the mixture in a pan and bring it to a boil over low heat for 20 minutes. Don't forget to keep stirring well in the meantime.
- Then lower the heat and add the cornstarch mixture to the sauce. Keep stirring until the sauce has become smooth.
- When the sauce gets a little 'thicker', leave it on the fire for about 5 minutes.
- And your healthy BBQ sauce is ready!
Tip: if you like more spicy barbecue sauce, add more cayenne pepper. A good replacement of Cornstarch are: Potato Starch, Rice Flour or Tapioca Flour. If you would like your BBQ sauce extra healthy up to the level of super-food just a add a spoon of Spirulina Organic Seaweed Powder. Spirulina Powder is rich with vitamin B12, protein, iron, B vitamins, and has antioxidant properties.
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