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Honey Jalapeno BBQ Sauce Recipe
Jalapeno
Okay, I have this recipe for Honey Jalapeno BBQ Sauce also listed in the Hot & Spicy section of the website. But since it included honey, I wanted to make sure all of the “honey” BBQ Sauces were listed together in one place since Honey BBQ Sauces are probably the most desired type of BBQ Sauce Recipes around.
This recipe, however, is truly a cheat if you are in a hurry for a quick Honey Jalapeno BBQ Sauce. Why? Well, it’s not a “from scratch” recipe. Simply take your favorite store bought barbecue sauce and add the honey and jalapenos to sweeten and spice it up. You could always choose an existing honey bbq sauce and skip adding the honey, but adding honey really sweetens it up which I like. The whiskey adds a nice flavor as well which you won’t find in many store bought sauces. If you don’t want to use a store bought sauces, you can take a basic tomato based BBQ sauce recipe from our “The Basics” section and have a completely homemade honey barbecue sauce which I would recommend.
- ½ cup whiskey
- 2 tbls. butter
- 6 jalapenos, seeded and finely chopped
- 2 bottles store bought barbecue sauce
- 2 tbls cayenne pepper
- ½ cup honey
- Carefully heat whiskey over medium heat until it catches fire.
- Let alcohol burn out, leaving about ½ cup reduction.
- Add butter, jalapenos, barbecue sauce, cayenne and honey.
- Simmer for one hour, stirring often
- Note: Makes 4 cups
Spicy Honey BBQ Sauce Recipe (Chili powder)
Honey
Adding as much Chili powder as you can stand makes this Honey BBQ Sauce Recipe a spicy one! For those of you that like a Honey Mustard flavor, you can also add the Dijon mustard as well and make this a Honey Mustard BBQ Sauce as well.
In putting together a nice variety of recipes for Honey BBQ Sauces, I ran into this one that you can spice up with chili powder and flavor it up as much as you like. If you really want a HOT BBQ sauce, then you’ll have to try out some of the Jalapeno or Habanero BBQ Sauce Recipes I’ve included as well. So, if this isn’t spicy enough, keep poking around and I’m sure you’ll find a recipe hot enough to satisfy your spicy side!
- ¾ cup honey (a little more if you like it real sweet)
- ½ cup ketchup
- ¼ cup butter
- 1 tbsp. vinegar
- 2 teaspoons chopped onion
- 2 tbsp. brown sugar
- 1 tbsp. soy sauce
- 1 clove garlic, put through a press
- 2 teaspoons Dijon style mustard (optional-if you like a Honey-Mustard flavor)
- Chilli powder (optional – As much as you can stand if you like it SPICY!)
- Combine all the ingredients in a sauce pan and simmer the mixture for 5 minutes
Honey Barbecue Sauce Recipe (using ketchup and Plenty of Honey)
Ketchup
This Honey Barbecue Sauce Recipe is another ketchup based recipe but with PLENTY of honey! The ketchup acts as your tomato base in case you are in a hurry and don’t have all the ingredients of one of our more complicated Honey based barbecue suace recipes.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not usually a fan of using ketchup as the base for many BBQ Sauce Recipes but if you are in need of a quick and easy recipe and ketchup is at hand, then here you go! You can make yourself a quick Honey barbecue sauce.
- 3 tablespoons butter
- ⅔ cup salad oil
- ¾ cup Vinegar
- 1¼ cup ketchup
- 1 cup honey
- 2 tablespoons dry mustard
- 1 teaspoons ginger, (fresh grated is better)
- 1 lemon, sliced thinly
- 5 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper (optional)
- Combine all ingredients in a saucepan and heat to blend together.
Honey BBQ Sauce Recipe (using Salsa)
Blair’s Salsa
Here’s another simple homemade recipe for Honey BBQ Sauce but this time instead of ketchup or tomato sauce, this one uses your choice of salsa. Yes, Salsa! Now there’s so many salsa’s you can really go crazy with this one. Personally, I’m a huge fan of peach or pineapple salsas. If you can find a good mango salsa, that’s even better. And, you can also go with a really hot and spicy salsa if you looking for something hot.
- 1 cup of honey
- 1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce
- 1 cup of prepared salsa
- 1 half tablespoon of peppers
- 1 tablespoon of minced garlic
- 3 drops of liquid smoke
- ½ cup of apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon of prepared mustard
- First you mix the salsa, honey, mustard, apple cider vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, pepper, and garlic in a sauce pan.
- Then you cook these ingredients at medium temperature for about 30 minutes, stirring continuously to prevent any burning or sticking.
- Remove the pan from the heat and add in the liquid smoke.
Honey Glazed BBQ Spareribs
BBQ Spareribs
Now for a quick and easy BBQ Spareribs recipe with a nice Honey Glazed BBQ Sauce. This recipe uses the cheat of boiling the meat prior to grilling vs. slow cooking or true barbecuing. Now, let me tell you that’s how I started grilling BBQ Spareribs and then glazing the with a nice BBQ sauce when I first started getting hooked on grilling.
To really make great spareribs, and it is hard, is to slow cook them. The trick is to keep them moist. The best way is to wrap them in aluminum foil while slow BBQing them. I think its also important to have them properly smoked with Mesquite wood so you get that nice red ring in the meat with a great smoky flavor. Whether you do this recipe the long-slow hard way of slow Barbecuing or through the quick method of boiling and then adding the Honey Glaze to the meat while grilling is up to you. Just be sure to NOT burn the Honey BBQ Glaze with too high a heat on the grill. That’s the secret to properly getting a nice glaze of the sauce on the meat without that burn flavor.
- 8 lbs pork back ribs, cut into 2 rib portions
- Water
- 1 tbsp salad or olive oil
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 1 clove garlic, chopped fine
- ¾ cup catsup
- 1 cup wine vinegar
- ½ cup honey
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- 1½ tsp Tabasco or hot pepper sauce
- Cook ribs in water (personally adding a good beer to the water mixture is even better!), simmer covered about one hour, then drain.
- Cook onion and garlic in hot oil approximately 10 minutes, then add balance of ingredients, heat to boiling, reduce heat and simmer uncovered about 20 minutes or until sauce slightly thickens.
- Ribs may be grilled about 20 minutes basting often with sauce. Just be careful not to burn the glaze with too high of heat.
- Or, ribs may be baked in oven with sauce for about 40 minutes at 450 degrees. Turning ribs over two or three times.
Honey Barbeque Sauce Recipes
Honey
Honey barbeque sauces are probably some of the favorite types around. Nothing like a nice sweet barbeque sauce! Looking around, there’s plenty of recipes available for a Honey based BBQ sauce. I’ve compiled several great recipes ranging from very simple to very complex. By complex, I mean a large variety of ingredients as compared to my simpliest recipe which only has 4 ingredients.
Jalapeno BBQ Sauce
Jalapeno
This is a great basic Jalapeno barbecue sauce recipe. It has all the classic ingredients of a traditional BBQ sauce such as brown sugar, tomatos and onions. With the Jalapenos this recipe also throws in the Cilantro making it a real mexican style recipe. Personally I like things a little spicer so feel free to add more Jalapenos if this recipe is not spicy enough for you.
- 1 Tbs Olive oil
- ½ cup Onion, diced
- ½ tsp.Garlic, minced
- ¼ cup Red wine vinegar
- 2 tsp.Ground cloves
- 1 tsp.Ground allspice
- ¼ cup Cilantro leaves, chopped
- ½ cup Brown sugar
- 2 tsp.Jalapeno peppers, seeded finely diced
- 12 oz.Tomato ketchup
- 1 Tbs Worcestershire sauce
- Salt to taste
- Fresh ground black pepper to taste
- Heat olive oil in a saucepan and saute onion, garlic and jalapeno peppers until translucent.
- Add the vinegar, cloves, allspice and cilantro and simmer until reduced by ½.
- Add the brown sugar, ketchup and Worcestershire sauce.
- Simmer for 25 minutes or until proper consistency is achieved.
- Place in blender and puree until smooth.
- Season with salt and fresh ground black pepper.
- Makes 1 pint
Chipotle and Red Wine Barbecue Sauce
Red Wine
This barbecue sauce can be used as a serving/dipping sauce as well as a basting sauce. It works well on just about any meat. I’m a huge fan of chipotle which I’ve noticed is now popping up everywhere in restaurants and in various grocery products. If you aren’t familiar with Chipotle and what they are, they are simply smoked Jalepeno’s that give them a really nice smoky flavor. If you are interested in other Chipotle barbecue sauce recipes you should take a look at our whole list of Chipotle and Jalepeno barbecue sauce recipes by clicking the link.
- ½ cup ketchup
- ⅓ cup red wine, preferably dry
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon cumin
- ¼ teaspoon chipotle chili powder
- In a medium saucepan, add olive oil, garlic, chipotle powder, and cumin.
- Allow to heat through, while stirring, for 1 minute.
- Add red wine and brown sugar.
- Simmer for 2-3 minutes.
- Add in soy sauce, vinegar, ketchup, and Worcestershire sauce.
- Simmer for 2 minutes more.
- Remove from heat, allow to cool slightly before using.
Jalapeno BBQ Sauce Recipes
Chipotle Chile
This section is dedicated to the most common type of Hot and Spicy barbecue sauces. The Jalapeno and Chipotle Chili based sauces.
Chipotle chilies add a great smoky flavor to food and in particular these barbecue sauce recipes. What are Chipotle chilies you ask? They are dried and smoked Jalapeno peppers which gives them a unique taste which is quite different than the normal Jalapeno you are used to.
The picture above shows the most common type of Chipotle you will find which happens to be known as the morita. This is most likely what you’ll find at your local grocery store unless you happen to have a store with a great variety of mexican food. In that case, give the recipe a try with other types of Chipotle and let us know. We’d be happy to have you post your comments on using other varieties of Chipotle and chili peppers.
Honey Habanero BBQ Sauce
Habanero Peppers
Like a few of the other recipes, I also have this recipe for Honey Habanero BBQ Sauce listed in the Hot & Spicy section of this website. I include it here as well since it has honey in the recipe and I wanted to make sure all of the “honey” BBQ Sauces Recipes were listed together for easy browsing.
As usual, I like sweet BBQ sauces and with the honey, this Honey Habanero BBQ Sauce is a winner! If Habaneros are a bit too hot for you, you can always cut back on the amount or even substitute a Jalapeno or something less hot. However, habanero like any hot pepper has it’s own unique type of hot flavor so give it a try before you think habaneros are too hot for you.
- 6 fresh habanero peppers
- 5 cloves fresh garlic
- 7 shallots
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup honey (I use a local farmer – fresh unrefined honey is the way to go)
- ½ cup teriyaki sauce
- ½ cup any brand regular bbq sauce
- 4 tablespoons horseradish
- 2 tablespoons worchestershire sauce
- 2 tablespoons yellow mustard
- 2 teaspoons liquid smoke
- Remove all seeds, stems, and ribs from habanero (scotch bonnet) peppers. Finely dice cleaned peppers, garlic, and shallots, and sauté in olive oil until garlic and onions begin to carmelize.
- Once the garlic and onions begin to turn golden brown, add honey, teriyaki, bbq sauce, horseradish, mustard, and liquid smoke.
- Bring to a boil, then reduce and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Use as you would any bbq sauce, and know that even without the ribs and seeds, this is a VERY spicy bbq sauce.
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