Hoisin Sauce

This simple homemade version of the Chinese staple is a delicious sauce and glaze in its own right, as well as an essential ingredient in countless dishes.

Balsamic Barbecue Sauce

The tang and robust flavor of balsamic vinegar dominates, but also finds a nice balance with barbecue sauce standards like ketchup, honey, mustard, and molasses.

Hoisin Barbecue Ribs

Ribs slow-smoked over cherry wood get a little Asian flair when finished with a hoisin barbecue sauce, creating a unique combination of sweet, salty, and smoky that's all around delicious.

Cherry Barbecue Sauce

You can call cherry a "secret" ingredient to this barbecue sauce. It adds a deep fruitiness that gets well embedded in the sauce. The cherries are paired with ancho chili powder, which gives an earthy spice.

Korean Kimchi Barbecue Sauce

Not to be confused with any of the traditional sauces or marinades used in Korean barbecue, this is a sauce that combines funky Korean flavors like kimchi and gochujang (Korean chili paste) with a barbecue sauce-style ketchup base. It's delicious on grilled chicken, pork, and shellfish like shrimp.

Easy All-Purpose Barbecue Sauce

You'll want to make big batches of this all-purpose barbecue sauce—it's great on a wide variety of barbecued and grilled foods, like ribs, chicken, or burgers.

Mango Habanero Barbecue Sauce

Staying true to its name, mango forms the sweet base here, but this sauce also delivers all the tangy and spicy complexity that makes a great barbecue sauce.

Memphis-Style Barbecue Sauce

This "Memphis-style" is my favorite to make at home—it takes the aspects of sweet tomato-based sauces I grew up on, but by dialing back the sugar and amping up the vinegar, creates a sauce where seasonings and spice are more defined and achieves a pleasing balance between the main defining aspects of a barbecue sauce.

Peach-Bourbon Barbecue Sauce

Peach is front and center in this tangy, sweet, and spicy barbecue sauce, which gets some extra depth thanks to a shot of bourbon.

Quick Korean Flavored Barbecue Sauce

A mere few minutes of work and minimal ingredients can turn a rather ho-hum bottled barbecue sauce into serious eats.