9 Barbecue Sauce Recipes That Are Easy to Make at Home

The secret ingredient in Coterie member Maria Lichty’s homemade sauce? Pineapple juice. We’re so ready for grilling, marinating and dipping.

This Paleo-friendly sauce skips the added sugar in favor of a serious kick. (Thanks, cayenne, hot sauce and paprika.)

We’re firm believers that maple and bourbon can elevate even the simplest of dressings. Case in point? Coterie member Liz Harris’s seriously delicious sauce.

This three-ingredient buffalo sauce means you’ll never be buying a jar from the store ever again. (And did we mention it’s ready in five minutes?)

Get some inspo from Kansas City barbecue—this homemade sauce is tangy, smoky and can easily be made gluten-free.

A barbecue sauce you can drizzle on everything without blowing your Whole30 diet? Why, yes, it does exist.

OK, so this sauce is only semi-homemade, but what better way to spice up a regular bottle of barbecue sauce than to douse it with root beer?

Slather this low-carb, sugar-free barbecue sauce on your chicken, then have an extra scoop of potato salad.

The secret to this spicy sauce? Gochugaru, a Korean-style red pepper, instead of cayenne.