Classic Memphis-Style Barbecue Sauce

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This condiment is rich, saccharine and velvety, with a small zing of heat.

When you navigator it lone until it is nary longer watery, you should extremity up with 8 cups. If your canning pantry includes crushed tomatoes, you tin usage 2 quarts of them, alternatively of the ripe effect called for here, to marque this condiment year-round.

You'll request 4 sterilized pint jars with caller lids and rings.

The condiment substance needs to chill for 30 minutes earlier it's pureed. The canned condiment tin beryllium stored successful a cool, acheronian spot for up to 1 year. Refrigerate aft opening.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4 pints

1 dried ancho chile pepper
6 pounds reddish ripe tomatoes, peeled, seeded and crushed (8 cups; spot headnote and NOTES)
1 mean onion, diced
2 poblano peppers, roasted, peeled and diced (see NOTES)
1 jalapeño pepper, stemmed, seeded and diced
1 clove garlic, minced
3/4 cupful unsulphured molasses
3/4 cupful pome cider vinegar
1 tablespoonful Worchestershire sauce
2 teaspoons blistery Spanish smoked paprika (pimenton)
1 spoon powdered mustard

Nutritional Facts

Per 1/4-cup serving

Calories
45
Carbohydrates
10 g
Sodium
15 mg
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
7 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Cathy Barrow, writer of "Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry: Recipes and Techniques for Year-Round Preserving" (Norton, November 2014).

Tested by Cathy Barrow.

Published September 2, 2014

Updated March 15, 2026