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Help recreating a Carolina sauce from my favorite restaurant?
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Help recreating a Carolina sauce from my favorite restaurant?


I love the original sauce they have, but they aren’t selling any bottles of it and I moved across the country where our BBQ is ASS. It’s actually offensive. I’m missing east coast bbq so much. How can I recreate this sauce? I’ve never made my own before.

by Ok-Amphibian

7 Comments

  2. RickySuezo

    I would watch a YouTube video making bbq sauce close to this style and then just change the quantity of ingredients to get closer to what theirs was like.

  3. treesmith1

    I guess you are talking about the golden mustard style Carolina sauce? This definitely isn’t the most common NC sauce. Most definitely delicious though. The usual sauces are completely vinegar based with the addition of various tomato concentrates depending on which side of the state your in. Those are usually very simple. Apple cider vinegar, brown sugar, crushed red pepper, paprika and varying spins from there. Lots of reputable joints have could deconstructions posted online. As
    far as a golden mustard sauce I always went
    with Golding Farms honey mustard out of Winston-Salem. Right down the road from Texas Pete. There are so many ways to do the golden mustard sauce as well, but the honey mustard is key to the local flavor profile you’re hunting.

  4. wtfbenlol

    look up any George’s BBQ Sauce copycat recipe and it will get you pretty close to the BBQ I get here in Eastern NC

  5. albacore_futures

    It’s vinegar with all that stuff (probably as dried seasonings, as opposed to say chopping up celery) thrown in. Then you cook it on a stovetop in a pot and taste.

    I dunno why they’d use pineapple and brown sugar, along with molasses. Personally I’d pick one of the three, the point there is to provide sweetness.