Recipe: Yummy Carolina BBQ Mop Sauce

Carolina BBQ Mop Sauce. Slather Sauce on Your Savory BBQ. Unlike barbecue sauce, which is applied for all to see after the meat is done, a mop sauce is applied at intervals as the meat cooks. It helps keep meat moist and juicy, with rich layers of flavor.

It's a very regional sauce and it's quite common to find it here, along with traditional tomato-based sauces, on the table of the local barbecue joints. This tangy vinegar BBQ mop sauce does something magical when added to pork. Here's how to create your own BBQ sorcery: It's widely recognised that there are several regional styles of barbecue sauce around the United States. You can have Carolina BBQ Mop Sauce using 7 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Carolina BBQ Mop Sauce

1. You need 1 1/2 Cup of Vinegar (White or Brown).
2. You need 2 Tbsp of Sugar (White or Brown).
3. You need 1 Tbsp of Sea Salt.
4. You need 2 tsp of Crushed Pepper (Red, Chipotle, etc.).
5. You need 2 tsp of Fresh Cracked Black Pepper.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of Hot Sauce.
7. Prepare of Optional: 1 Stick of Butter.

Texas, Kansas City, Eastern North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and arguably some lesser known spinoffs too. In a saucepan, stir together the vinegar, red pepper flakes, pepper and salt. Stir in the ketchup and brown sugar. Create your own amazing East Carolina vinegar BBQ sauce and mop with this simple to follow recipe.

Carolina BBQ Mop Sauce instructions

1. Mix all in ingredients in a small jar, shake well and refrigerate for at least 24 hours, shaking periodically throughout. The longer you wait the better it'll get. Shake it occasionally, like whenever you open your refrigerator door..
2. Optional: for thicker mop, for basting, heat sauce and stir in softened butter. But, only do this immediately before serving, discard any unused sauce afterwards. Also, use a separate cup for your basting and serving or you'll cross-contaminate your food.

Tangy and spicy, Low Country vinegar sauce is great for finishing fatty pork and does double duty as a baste (or mop) for adding layers of flavor to the meat as it cooks. Because it is so thin, it penetrates deep. The East Carolina mop sauce, to be exact, is basically a combination of hot sauce and vinegar. This spicy sauce with a vinegary twang is all you need on a properly smoked shoulder or whole hog. You can mop it on the meat while it cooks to cool and flavor it.