Barbecue Sauce / Mop - American Style Tomato Based

Total Time: 2 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• 16 ounces butter
• 6 ounces vegetable oil
• 5 large onions, chopped
• 6 pieces garlic, diced
• 48 ounces ketchup
• 4 ounces cider vinegar
• 4 ounces mustard
• 2 ounces sri racha chili sauce
• 64 ounces water
• 32 ounces brown sugar
• to taste black pepper
• to taste hungarian paprika

Recipe

• 1 note of caution: this sauce, while cooking, will "bubble and burp". do not cover completely, but a spatter screen or a lid partially closed is a good idea. whenever cooking anything that has this much sugar in it be careful!
• 2 sweat all ingredients in step 1 in a non -aluminum pot until clear, do not brown.use more garlic if you like or roast the garlic and onions first.
• 3 add remaining ingredients and simmer on low until it is as thick as you like it. this could take any where form 1 to 2 hours.
• 4 do not skim. when using stir first to incorporate butter back into the sauce. that's where a lot of the flavor is.
• 5 note: sri racha chili sauce is a thick thai style chili sauce available in most markets around the world now. if you can not find it use tabasco but do not use as much. tabasco is a lot more sour than sri racha sauce is. if you like it spicy-hot just add jalapenos or chilis while it is cooking but keep in mind that it cooks and reduces for quite a while and it will get very spicy if you use a lot of peppers.
• 6 after cooking let cool and store in any non-reactive container (no aluminium). keep it refrigerated and it will last "forever". only take out what you need and return the rest to the frig.