Warm weather is coming, which means barbecue. Playing an important role in outdoor cooking, the barbecue sauce imparts your food various favors. Renowned for its barbecue events and barbecue food, the Kansas City gives a transcendent sauce that you can’t miss.

Kansas City BBQ features for the wide assortment of meat, slow smoking method, delicious burnt ends, and the sweet-and-spicy tomato-based sauce. If you haven’t been to Kansas City or haven’t tried any of the Kansas-style barbecue foods, you can probably start here today.

To make a great Kansas City BBQ sauce, you’ll need the ingredients as follows:

Some chopped onion;

2 cups of ketch-up;

1/2 tbsp kosher salt;

1/2 tbsp cumin;

1/2 tbsp chili powder;

1/2 tbsp cayenne powder;

1/2 tbsp garlic powder;

1/2 tbsp black pepper;

1/2 cup apple cider vinegar;

1/2 tbsp hickory-flavor liquid smoke;

1 cup brown sugar.

Sauce is all about personal preference, if you are a big fan of sweet or spicy flavor, simply add the powder accordingly, making the sauce the way you want it.

Mix up the ingredients above well in a saucepan, and place the pan on stove. Heat up the sauce for about 20-30 minutes with medium fire. During the simmering you can it a nice stir occasionally, which helps your sauce get mixed well.

In the end, wait your sauce to cool down and keep it in a jar in fridge. When you are grilling or smoking next time, you’ll have your food coming with the extraordinary appealing hue.

As a matter of fact, it’s pretty easy to make the well-known Kansas City BBQ sauce, and it tastes nothing but phenomenal!

Hope you get inspired for your next barbecue recipe.