Apple BBQ Sauce

Making homemade BBQ sauce is super easy and super delicious. I've made a few different sauces this summer, but I seem to keep coming back to this one.

The original recipe is courtesy of Chuck Hughes from Chucks Day Off on the Food Network. I've made it a few different times and tweaked it and now make it like this.

Apple BBQ Sauce

2 Tbsp olive oil

1 onion, peeled and chopped

1 clove of garlic, minced

 Salt and pepper to taste

1 tbsp smoked paprika ( use regular paprika if you don't have smoked paprika)

1 cup apple sauce (250 ml)

1 cup ketchup (250 ml)

1/2 cup honey (125 ml)

2 tbsp molasses (60 ml)

2 tbsp cup soy sauce (60 ml)

1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce (15 ml)

Juice of 1 lemon

2 tsp of hot sauce (tabasco, etc...)

DIRECTIONS:

Cook the onions and garlic in the olive oil until they are soft but not browned. Season with salt and pepper and then add the apple sauce. Let the sauce heat up and then add the ketchup until that it simmering. Add the honey, molasses, soy sauce and Worcestershire and stir. Add the lemon juice and hot sauce and then the paprika.

Bring to a simmer and serve with what you can use BBQ sauce on.

Donair Sauce

I can see this blog post being one of the more popular posts I will ever put on this site. For those who aren’t from the east coast of Canada, donair sauce is a staple in any pizza joint, deli, pub, etc...

It is most commonly found on donairs (known as kebabs to most of the world), but also served on garlic fingers (another thing that is primarily found on the east coast) and I’m sure most people at one point in their life have poured it on a slice of pizza at 3am.

So incredibly tasty, so incredibly un-healthy, but so incredibly easy to make, so it balances out right? RIGHT???

You can’t seem to find this sauce outside of eastern Canada. I’ve been in deli’s all across our beautiful country and tasted things called Sweet Sauce, Garlic Sauce and even seen people put Tzatziki on donairs. All of these were delicious, but to the east coast purists, there is only one sauce that fits the bill.

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Ingredients:

Condensed Milk (or Evaporated Milk)

Sugar

Vinegar

Garlic Powder

Think of this recipe as a ratio.

The ratio is (wait for it) 1:1, condensed milk:white sugar. So if you have a cup of condensed milk, you have a cup of sugar. The easiest way to do it is empty the can of milk in a bowl and fill the empty can up with sugar. Add the vinegar to taste. Start with 2 teaspoons and try it. Add more if you think it needs it. Same with the garlic powder, add it to taste. Start with 1/4 teaspoon and go from there. Chilling it in the fridge will thicken it but you can eat it right away. A little bit of this goes a long way, so you don't need to buy a big can of milk.


Using condensed milk will give you a thicker sauce than using evaporated milk.

That’s all that’s to it. Doesn’t get much easier than that. Enjoy the extra calories on the already high calorie food that you are putting this on! (It's worth it)