Dr Pepper Barbecue Sauce Recipe - Grumpy's Honeybunch (2024)

Get ready for football season with this zero-carb homemade Dr Pepper Barbecue Sauce coating your favorite proteins! In our case, this would be Glazed Chicken and Pork Belly Wings! These sweet and spicy bites are air-fried or oven-baked to perfection and glazed with this awesome sauce.

Dr Pepper BBQ Sauce is a mouthwatering sugar-free, sticky-sweet glaze to coat your pork belly and wings, drizzle on pork sandwiches, hot dogs, and so much more. This versatile favorite brings a depth of flavor that's sure to make your tastebuds dance.

❤️ Why I Love This Recipe

✔️ This is one of the best homemade sauces to use for party wings!

✔️ This Dr Pepper Barbecue Sauce tastes delicious on most proteins. Use it on everything from beef ribs to a veggie burger!

✔️ This homemade Dr Pepper glaze makes a great gift!

🥘 Ingredients

Diet Dr Pepper, this adds a specific flavor and sweetness to the barbecue sauce.

Sugar-free brown sugar substitute, this is usually an intense natural sweetener and sugar substitute that has no artificial ingredients, calories, or carbohydrates, one like this.

Garlic powder is derived from dehydrated garlic. I like to use this garlic powder.

Tomato paste is an inexpensive thickener often used to enrich the flavor of dishes.

Coconut aminos are derived from the sap of a coconut plant and is a soy free product that is keto friendly. This is the brand I use.

Hot chili pepper sauce is a hot sauce derived from chili peppers. This is what I use.

Red chili pepper flakes are a spice that comes from dried and crushed red chili peppers and adds extra heat to the sauce.

Butter adds fat and flavor to this barbecue sauce recipe.

🔪 Instructions

1. In a medium-sized saucepan over medium heat, add the Diet Dr. Pepper, brown sugar substitute, garlic powder, tomato paste, coconut aminos, hot chili pepper sauce, chili pepper flakes, and butter. Stir to combine.
2. Continue to stir as butter melts and sugar has dissolved.
3. Cook until sauce begins to boil.
4. Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
5. The cause will thicken once cooled.

🙋 Recipe FAQ's

👪 Serving size

How many servings does this recipe make?

• This recipe makes 2 delicious cups of Dr Pepper glaze!
• 2 cups equal 32 tablespoons and 2 tablespoons are a serving. Therefore there are 16 servings of sauce. This will cover a lot of wings 🙂

💭 Tips

1. Keep glazed wings on the warm setting in a slow cooker to prevent food from getting cold.
2. Have plenty of Regular and Diet Dr. Pepper on hand for all your football-loving fans!
3. Substitute your favorite diet root beer or cola for the Dr. Pepper.

Serving Suggestions

This is a great sauce to use to glaze Air Fryer Chicken Wings or pork belly wings.

This Dill Pickle Pasta Salad is a great side dish to serve with glazed wings.

Use this homemade dr pepper bbq Sauce to coat these Air Fryer Pork Chops.

Storage

Store in a covered container in the refrigerator up to 2 weeks.

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