{"id":252,"slug":"barbecue-sauce-kansas-city-style","title":"Barbecue Sauce (Kansas City-style)","description":"Barbecue Sauce is a tomato or ketchup based sauce used on meats. Kansas City-style barbecue sauce is the most common version used in the United States. It is tomato- or ketchup- based with sweet, sour and smoky elements. Barbecue sauce can be added to the meat before, during or after cooking. This version contains quite a bit of sugar, so it should be added near the end or after cooking the meat to avoid burning the sauce.","ingredients_raw":["1 cup (235 mL) ketchup","6 tablespoons (90 mL) Worcestershire sauce","4 tablespoons (60 mL) butter or margarine","3 tablespoons (45 mL) white vinegar","1 tablespoon (15 mL) plain prepared mustard","3 tablespoons (45 mL) finely minced yellow onion","4 teaspoons (20 mL) bottled liquid smoke flavor (hickory)","¼ teaspoon (1 mL) Louisiana-style red pepper sauce","½ cup (120 mL) brown sugar","1 tablespoon (15 mL) granulated sugar","1 teaspoon (5 mL) salt"],"ingredients_norm":["ketchup","worcestershire sauce","butter or margarine","white vinegar","plain prepared mustard","yellow onion","bottled liquid smoke flavor","louisiana style red pepper sauce","brown sugar","granulated sugar","salt"],"steps":["Combine all ingredients in a saucepan.","Mix well.","Simmer over low heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally."],"categories":["Sauce recipes","Midwestern U.S. recipes","Recipes using tomato","Recipes for barbecue sauce","Gluten-free recipes","Recipes using butter","Recipes using brown sugar","Recipes using granulated sugar","Recipes using ketchup","Recipes using liquid smoke","Recipes using margarine","Recipes using prepared mustard"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":20,"servings":"8","yield_text":"2 cups","difficulty":"very easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Barbecue_Sauce_(Kansas_City-style)","source_ref":"4613696","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Barbecue_Sauce_(Kansas_City-style)&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"2f76c44da81b12a6213cccdcd1b64279e242f142dc28ff509f15b81b932fc2dc","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:35:14Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/barbecue-sauce-kansas-city-style"}