This delicious low carb barbecue dry rub is one of the seasoning recipes from my cookbook – Craveable Keto. It is fantastic on ribs, chicken, steak, pork chops, or even prawns. Plus, it’s super quick and easy to whip up and without all the additives and sugar that you would typically find in a store-bought mix.
This deliciously sweet and savory low carb barbecue dry rub is fantastic on ribs, chicken, steak, or even prawns. Even though it's a beautiful February day here in the Pacific Northwest, I'm already dreaming of barbecue season.
Most standard dry rubs are salt and pepper based. Add in seasonings like garlic powder, some paprika for color and a little cayenne pepper for heat and you have a good base to start with. What makes a rub a BBQ rub specifically is usually the addition of brown sugar.
The ingredients in this recipe are sweetener, kosher salt, pepper, smoked paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, ground mustard, turmeric, and chili powder. If you want the dry rub on the spicy side, you can kick it up with some ground cayenne pepper. For the sweetener, I used a sugar free sweetener to keep this BBQ rib rub keto.