barbecue sauce
noun
: a spicy sauce that is usually eaten with barbecued food
He makes a barbecue sauce that tastes great with chicken.
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The La Jolla Cove burger has pepper jack cheese, bacon, crispy onion straws and barbecue sauce.
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
Tender, juicy ribs smothered in barbecue sauce—what could be better?
—Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2024
For starters, these tasty baby back ribs only need three extra ingredients: yellow mustard, barbecue rub, and barbecue sauce.
—Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2024
Ribs can be ordered with hot honey or barbecue sauce.
—Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2024
Her wife usually packed her bags, loading them with American staples like candy, Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce, pancake mix and Creole seasoning.
—J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
Sweet and high-acid Sauternes is also an excellent pick, especially for meat or chicken doused with barbecue sauce that offers notes of sugar and vinegar.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2024
Sometimes the dishes, like sticky lamb ribs glazed in thick pomegranate molasses barbecue sauce and finished with fried rosemary and pickled persimmons, come off overwrought, and a too-busy take on a Caesar salad could use one less ingredient.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
Stir in beans, barbecue sauce, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, chili powder, and salt.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2024
Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
Tender, juicy ribs smothered in barbecue sauce—what could be better?
—Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2024
For starters, these tasty baby back ribs only need three extra ingredients: yellow mustard, barbecue rub, and barbecue sauce.
—Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2024
Ribs can be ordered with hot honey or barbecue sauce.
—Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2024
Her wife usually packed her bags, loading them with American staples like candy, Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce, pancake mix and Creole seasoning.
—J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
Sweet and high-acid Sauternes is also an excellent pick, especially for meat or chicken doused with barbecue sauce that offers notes of sugar and vinegar.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2024
Sometimes the dishes, like sticky lamb ribs glazed in thick pomegranate molasses barbecue sauce and finished with fried rosemary and pickled persimmons, come off overwrought, and a too-busy take on a Caesar salad could use one less ingredient.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
Stir in beans, barbecue sauce, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, chili powder, and salt.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2024
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