Barbecue sauce

This smoky barbecue sauce will be the red-hot favourite in your essential summer barbecue kit.

Australian Good Taste

Photography by Ben Dearnley

• Ingredients

• 250ml (1 cup) passata (tomato pasta sauce)
• 125ml (1/2 cup) treacle
• 80ml (1/3 cup) maple syrup
• 60ml (1/4 cup) tomato sauce
• 60ml (1/4 cup) white wine vinegar
• 2 tbs Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tbs Dijon mustard
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1/4 tsp sweet paprikat

• Method

1. Step 1
   Place the passata, treacle, maple syrup, tomato sauce, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, garlic powder and paprika in a medium saucepan. Bring to the boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 12 minutes or until the sauce thickens. Taste and season with salt and pepper. Set aside for 20 minutes to cool slightly.
2. Step 2
   Pour the sauce into sterilised airtight bottles. Place in the fridge until required.
   Australian Good Taste - December 2006 , Page 138
   Recipe by Louise Pickford
   taste.com.au