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December 12, 2012 Featured

South Carolina Style Mustard BBQ Sauce Recipe

carolina flagThe Palmetto state is home to a different kind of Barbecue sauce.  It’s Northern brethren in Western North Carolina have staked their claim in a vinegary thin and spicy sauce that cuts the fattiness of whole hog pulled pork.  But South Carolinian’s like to keep their options open and are in fact one of the only places you can find a different – mustard based style of barbecue sauce.

The origins of the mustard infusion is said to have been passed down from German influences from settlers on the Carolina coast.  In the mid 1700 the British Colony of South Carolina brought in thousands of  families to the area to settle in and make the state their home.  They brought with them a traditional German fair in food with the common use of mustard.  To this day most of the biggest names in South Carolina are of German decent including the Bessinger family who still wave the mustard flag in their BBQ joints in the Columbia and Charleston area.

Although the thought of a mustard sauce is foreign to many.  Barbecue fans tend to like this tangy take on a thick sweet sauce. There are hundreds of variations that can be created with different variety of mustard but tradition leans to a simple affordable yellow blend that we’ve adapted below.  This mainstream blend of mustard and vinegar makes for another tangy way to cut through fatty pulled pork at your next pig pickin’.

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South Carolina Style Mustard BBQ Sauce Recipe

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes

Yield: One Pint

South Carolina Style Mustard BBQ Sauce Recipe

Serve this sauce warm on the side with pulled pork or mix above amount with one shredded/pulled boston butt.

Ingredients

  • 1 Small White Onion, Minced
  • 2 Tablespoons Butter
  • 1 Clove of Garlic, Minced
  • 1 Cup Yellow Mustard
  • 3/4 Cup Brown Sugar
  • 3/4 Cup Pickle Juice or Cider Vinegar
  • 1 Teaspoon Kosher Salt
  • 1 Teaspoon Fresh Ground Black Pepper
  • Hot Sauce To Taste

Instructions

  1. Saute garlic and onion until translucent. Add mustard and remaining ingredients and simmer for ten minutes until thickened. Strain out onion pulp (optional).
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South Carolina Mustard Sauce

Author Bill West

Also known as “Carolina Gold” this tangy and sweet sauce uses basic yellow mustard as the key ingredient. Serve this sauce warm, on the side, with pulled pork or mix below amount directly with one shredded/pulled Boston butt.

 

Ingredients

1 small white onion, minced Small 2 Tbsp butter1 clove of garlic, minced1 cup yellow mustard 3/4 cup brown sugar3/4 cup pickle juice or cider vinegar 1 tsp kosher salt1 tsp fresh ground black pepperHot sauce to taste

Instructions

Saute’’ garlic and onion until translucent. Add mustard and remaining ingredients and simmer for ten minutes until thickened. Strain out onion pulp (optional).

Categories: Featured Tags: bbq sauce, bbq sauce recipe, carolina sauce, Mustard, mustard sauce, sauce, sc sauce, south carolina

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  1. Stoke Stack Barbecue says

    March 5, 2014 at 11:07 pm

    Good ol’ Carolina gold. This stuff is epic. I’ll take a squeeze for my barbecue pork!

  2. dingus says

    April 16, 2016 at 5:08 pm

    Sounds scrumptious I’ll squirt some in my beer pleez……

  3. dingus says

    April 16, 2016 at 5:09 pm

    Yodle freakin yodle’

Trackbacks

  1. 12 Sauces Of Christmas | Barbecue Tricks says:
    December 12, 2012 at 9:34 pm

    […] Day 1 – South Carolina Mustard Sauce […]

  2. Carolina Pride | Barbecue Tricks says:
    December 13, 2012 at 11:59 am

    […] South Carolina has it’s hands in different styles… but their claim to fame (thanks to Maurice Bessinger and family) is a tangy sweet mustard based sauce. […]

  3. Spicy Mustard BBQ Sauce Recipe | Barbecue Tricks says:
    December 17, 2012 at 5:28 pm

    […] moment addition of the butter and the soy sauce adds a bold richness that sets it a part from our traditional South Carolina Mustard Sauce.  It deserves a category of it’s […]

  4. Top 10 Best Barbecue Sauces | Grill 2Day says:
    January 28, 2014 at 9:29 am

    […]   The trick to the perfect BBQ sauce – for me – is sweetness with just a bit o’ bite.     Luckily, I’m based in Coastal South Carolina where our claim to BBQ fame is a tangy sweet Mustard Based BBQ Sauce. Some call it “Carolina Gold” due to it color… I just call it good. Bill West from barbecuetricks.com […]

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