Franklin Vinegar BBQ Sauce

The Franklins may be Texans, but they still love a good Carolina-style sauce. This tomato-based barbecue sauce is high in vinegar and low in sugar, so you'll be licking your lips with delight. The classic way to serve it is on pulled pork, but it’s also great with chicken, beef, and shrimp. This versatile sauce goes well with just about anything.

It’s the same recipe that’s been used since the beginning at Franklin Barbecue in Austin, Texas—an institution that has become a legend in the world of BBQ.

Note: This sauce is thin—sauces with this consistency are used to “mop” the meat at the end of cooking, or to add to pulled pork, beef, or chicken —in which case it penetrates all the fibers more easily, and the vinegar-based BBQ sauce adds extra freshness to the meat and enhances its flavor.

Yes, many BBQ sauces are simply vinegar-based, and that’s how they’re supposed to be, because sourness is a very underrated flavor in our country! You really don’t have to season everything with ketchup! Try a sour flavor with your meat sometime—you’ll be in heaven!

Natural, vegan, gluten-free, no preservatives, no artificial colors, no artificial flavors, no high fructose corn syrup, and gluten-free.

Ingredients: tomato puree (filtered water, tomato paste), apple cider vinegar, sugar, kosher salt, distilled vinegar, contains less than 2% sweet paprika, Worcestershire sauce (distilled vinegar, molasses, water, salt, spices [ginger, red pepper, mustard (mustard seeds), coriander, cloves, black pepper], cane sugar, garlic, tamarind concentrate), chili sauce (distilled vinegar, red pepper, salt), hot sauce (red cayenne pepper, distilled vinegar, salt), dried onion, citric acid, black pepper, dried garlic.