This Quick and Easy Vegan Barbecue Sauce is made with easy to find ingredients you probably have right now in your pantry or refrigerator. Seriously, you won’t believe how easy this is!
Is anyone else rarely impressed with store bought barbecue sauce?
A couple of complaints I have:
- Most are made with high fructose corn syrup.
- The higher quality ones are WAY too expensive for my budget.
- They just don’t usually taste good, unless you splurge on the expensive bottles, which I never do.
However, while I love to cook and create recipes, I’m also quite the lazy cook at times and want to keep things as simple as possible. Especially when my twins have back to back basketball games and my toddler is screaming, “MAMA” for the 1000th time of the day while I’m trying to put dinner together. *sigh*
So the other day I was making my Instant Pot Barbecue Jackfruit and decided to come up with my own SUPER easy, delicious barbecue sauce. I didn’t want it to require any chopping or cooking (not even garlic pressing!), just throwing some stuff in a bowl.
Which is what I did, and I’m thrilled with the results!!
You only need 7 ingredients:
Ketchup
Molasses
Brown sugar OR maple syrup
Apple cider vinegar
Soy Sauce (use tamari for gluten free)
Vegan Worcerstershire sauce &
Sriracha
Put them in a bowl and whisk! Done.
You can use this Quick and Easy Vegan Barbecue Sauce in a variety of recipes:
Make some barbecue tofu, or The Best BBQ Sandwich with Soy Curls.
Make these veggie burgers, add the barbecue sauce and some pineapple slices. Yum!
Use in Instant Pot BBQ Jackfruit.
Drizzle on baked potatoes.
Dip these Easy Baked Tofu Nuggets in this sauce.
If you make this recipe, let me know how it goes! Rate it, leave a comment and tag a photo @noracooksvegan on Instagram. Enjoy!
A quick and easy vegan barbecue sauce using everyday ingredients you probably have in your pantry/ refrigerator right now! Use this sauce for BBQ tofu, on veggie bean burgers or BBQ jackfruit sandwiches. Yum, yum.
- 2 cups organic ketchup*
- 2 tablespoons molasses
- 1/4 cup brown sugar or pure maple syrup
- 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce*
- 2 tablespoons vegan Worcestershire sauce*
- 2 teaspoons Sriracha, or other hot sauce
Add all ingredients to a medium sized bowl and whisk to combine. Makes about 2 1/2 cups or 18 ounces, the same amount in an average bottle of store bought barbecue sauce. Store in the refrigerator up to a week.
Use this recipe for Instant Pot BBQ Jackfruit, on veggie burgers, BBQ tofu or tempeh or even with these Easy Baked Tofu Nuggets.
- Look for a ketchup without high fructose corn syrup.
- For Gluten Free, use gluten free tamari instead of the low sodium soy sauce.
- For the vegan Worcestershire sauce, I usually buy Annie's brand. If you can't find it, you can leave it out.
This is just what l needed for my Burritos tomorrow. Sounds delicious thank you for posting.?
Thanks Karen! I hope they turn out well! 🙂
This barbecue sauce was really good and easy to make. Perfect amount of sweet and smoky.
I absolutely love this barbecue sauce I will never buy it in the store again! I added a teaspoon of smoked paprika… Thank you so much! I also have the barbecue jackfruit in the instant pot so quick and easy this recipe. It’s the first time I’ve ever cooked with Jackfruit so I’m very excited…
That’s so great to hear! Thanks so much for the feedback! I hope you enjoyed the jackfruit with it. 🙂 Smoked paprika is pretty much amazing in anything!
Wow!!! Now I need to make that immediately!
Ketchup is loaded with high fructose corn syrup too. Why not start with canned tomatoes
I generally use ketchup that does not contain high fructose corn syrup, and I use it because it makes this recipe very fast and easy. You are certainly welcome to find another recipe using canned tomatoes or from scratch, this one is just very easy and delicious. 🙂
Nora, I’m wondering if it can be frozen? There are just the 2 of us, so we would not be able to eat it fast enough to store it in the refrigerator.
Yes, this could be frozen. Hope you enjoy it!