Homemade Tangy BBQ Sauce

A jar of this homemade tangy BBQ sauce makes a great Fathers Day Gift!!! ……And you can make it without granulated sugar! Its sweet, tangy, sticky, thick and all those things that make a perfect BBQ sauce.

Do you need a quick and easy to make Father’s Day gift?  Today I’m sharing my homemade Tangy BBQ sauce recipe and how I make it into a wonderful fathers day gifts to give to Grandpas & Dad’s that love to grill. Your kids could even help you make this for giving to their Dad on Fathers Day!

Homemade BBQ sauce really makes a great gift for giving, its quick, easy , inexpensive, practical and exactly what Dad’s appreciate…..
When dad’s get older it gets harder and harder to think of a gift to bless them with. My dad’s birthday also is in the month of June so I like to do something extra special.  This year the Gran-dads got a jar of my homemade BBQ sauce, even though my Dad is in his 70’s, he still loves to grill (and most dads do!)   So if you need a practical gift most all Dad’s appreciate, then  make a couple jars of this up to give and an extra jar to keep some for yourself  on hand for grilling some great chicken!

Here’s the basic ingredients you need to make up yummy jars of BBQ sauce – 

4 cups ketchup (I use one without sugar)
2/3 cups honey -(you can use brown sugar here, its what the orig. recipe called for)
1 Tbsp. organic white vinegar
1 Tbsp. Nama Shoyu – a fermented soy sauce 
¼ tsp. onion powder
¼ tsp. garlic powder
1 Tbsp. steak sauce (your favorite brand, this is optional but it gives a nice smoky flavor to your sauce)
1 Tbsp. maple syrup
A few shakes of black pepper, Celtic sea salt, and 1/4 teaspoon Smoky Paprika! Smoky paprika is important because it also adds a very nice smokey flavor to finished BBQ taste.  
 I love having a No- granulated sugar in this sauce!  Now since it has honey instead of sugar, It will get thicker after its refrigerated, but we like that too. You can thin it down with a bit of water and often I do add a bit of water right to the jar over time of weeks in my frig because I make it  up by the quart jar full and just keep it on hand during the summer months for all my grilling.  Also if you like it warm for dipping, then You can warm it by setting jar in bowl of hot water, and it will warm up and thin some for use also. 

Ok…Now Once you have all the ingredients whisked together in a sauce pan, I heat them just slightly enough to melt and blend it all together. Not to cook it or kill all the great benefits in my raw honey 🙂

Now just pour it into your clean pint jars. (a canning funnel makes this task super easy).  Last print out a quick Gift Tag using some fun fonts on your computer and glue it on a piece of colored cardstock paper to make a cute tag. Tie your tag on with a bow and it’s ready to give. You could even tie on a basting brush to finish your gift!   

So for my tag, yes all I did was:  I typed the words out on word doc. using 2 fonts, hit print, now using scissors cut that out, glued it to a piece of blue card stock paper and that’s it! I put a border around my words, but that’s not hard as I am not TECHY at all! It took me less time to make the tag than it did to make the sauce.

You can see below how many fun ways you can wrap this for giving!  In a fun bucket with tissue paper or a basket with a fabric cloth napkin.  Incase your wondering the red bucket I found at Hobby Lobby and all the ribbon I had on hand.

Just-a-Note:  I have found that red check & red pokadot ribbon are great for Christmas, Fathers gifts, the Fourth July as well as Valentines….so those are staple ribbon colors in my craft drawer 🙂

I love that You can make several jars of this BBQ Sauce GIft,  up at least a week ahead and then your all ready for Fathers Day Gift giving!