Kansas-Style BBQ Sauce

Votes: 2

Time: 50 min.
Complexity: easily
Quantity: 1 l.

Kansas-style barbecue sauce is a tomato-based sauce with a distinctive sweet and tangy flavor. It pairs perfectly with any grilled meat, poultry, or ribs. The sauce is made with ketchup and tomato paste, molasses, brown sugar, and a whole host of aromatic spices. Despite the extensive ingredient list, it's quite simple to prepare: simply combine everything in a saucepan, adding the ingredients in the order listed, simmer for 30 minutes, and enjoy.

The recipes use measuring containers with the following volumes:
1 glass (st.) - 250 ml.
3/4 cup (st.) - 180 ml.
2/3 cup (st.) - 160 ml.
1/2 cup (st.) - 125 ml.
1/3 cup (st.) - 80 ml.
1/4 cup (st.) - 60 ml.
1 tablespoon (tbsp) - 15 ml.
1 teaspoon (tsp) - 5 ml.
1/5 teaspoon (tsp) - 1 ml.

Ingredients for the recipe:

2 tbsp. neutral vegetable oil
6 cloves garlic, crushed
2 tbsp tomato paste
1 heaping tbsp chili powder
1 tbsp paprika
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1/4 tsp ground allspice
A pinch of ground cloves
2 tbsp. ketchup
2 tbsp of water
0.5 cup apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup dark molasses
1/4 cup dark brown sugar
1 tbsp coarse salt
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2 tsp English dry mustard
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 bay leaf

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Cooking the dish according to the recipe:

In a medium saucepan, heat the vegetable oil over medium heat. Add the garlic, tomato paste, chili powder, paprika, red pepper, allspice and cloves and cook, stirring, until the paste turns brick red, about 3 minutes.
Add ketchup, water, vinegar, molasses, brown sugar, salt, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, black pepper and bay leaf.