North Carolina BBQ sauce is a sauce based on vinegar and hot sauce, instead of on tomatoes and sugar. It’s delicious, and for those of us on a keto or low carb diet, it’s the perfect solution. We get to enjoy flavorful bbq without the extra carbs found in tomato-based barbecue sauces.
How to Make Carolina BBQ Sauce. Many homemade Carolina BBQ sauce recipes are short and simple; vinegar, a little sugar, salt and pepper, and maybe some red pepper flakes for heat. Simmer the ingredients until the sugar and salt dissolve. Cool, then store in a jar or a squeeze bottle.
Using just 4 ingredients, our Eastern North Carolina Vinegar BBQ Sauce leans heavily on distilled white vinegar, only adding three spices (salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes) to draw out the flavor. Since this BBQ sauce is essentially a seasoned vinegar, the longer it sits, the more infused and flavorful it will become.
Eastern North Carolina and Middle Tennessee tend to have vinegar-based sauces. This is a great South Carolina-style sauce particularly for a low-carb version. As with most barbecue sauces from the South the classic use is with pulled pork. Read More This the best low carb BBQ sauce recipe I've come across.