11 Award-Winning Southern BBQ Sauce Recipes

Recipe: Texas Red Sauce

This classic BBQ sauce is heavy on the ketchup and vinegar, with cumin, allspice, and chili added for that warm barbecue flavor.

Recipe: South Carolina Mustard BBQ Sauce

This simple sauce has only 6 ingredients and is super easy to make. It's slightly sweet from the brown sugar and honey, almost like honey-mustard, and just a touch spicy from the cayenne and black pepper.

Recipe: Eastern North Carolina Vinegar BBQ Sauce

This sauce is made with only four ingredients and truth be told, is mostly vinegar. It requires no cooking and just a little patience while it sits for at least four hours so that the spices can infuse. 

Recipe: Texas-Style BBQ Sauce

Texas barbecue is in a league of its own. The state has its own take on ribs and of course, brisket, but it also has its own formula for barbecue sauce as well. Ketchup-forward and slightly spicy, this Texas-style sauce is full of savory flavor thanks to the Worcestershire sauce and cumin. 

Recipe: Honey Barbecue Sauce

If you like your 'cue sweet, then this is the sauce for you. This quick Honey Barbecue Sauce also includes lemon for acidity and freshness.

Recipe: Melting Pot BBQ Sauce

This recipe combines several regional BBQ sauce components to make one melt-in-your-mouth sauce.

Recipe: White BBQ Sauce

Use this vinegary, piquant North Alabama specialty as both a basting and finishing sauce on smoked or grilled chicken.

Recipe: Fancy Barbecue Sauce

Upgrade your bottled BBQ sauce with just a few extra ingredients to make this Fancy Barbecue Sauce.

Recipe: Coca-Cola BBQ Sauce

Your favorite sugary soft drink is the secret ingredient to this multi-dimensional BBQ sauce.

Recipe: Kansas City BBQ Sauce

This sauce is thick and spicy with dynamic layers of flavor from the chili powder and cayenne pepper. It's also a pretty rusty orange color that glazes anything from brisket to ribs beautifully. 

Recipe: Sweet-and-Spicy Barbecue Sauce

With spice from jalapeño and crushed red pepper, plus sweetness from honey and dark brown sugar, this Sweet-and-Spicy BBQ sauce hits all the right notes.