Recipe - All-Purpose Bbq Sauce

2 tablespoon Vegetable oil
1 small Onion; finely chopped
2 Garlic cloves; finely
chopped
1 teaspoon Red pepper flakes
1 tablespoon Chile powder or paprika
1 One half cup Ketchup
One half cup Amber beer or ale
One fourth cup Cider vinegar
One fourth cup Water
One fourth cup Brown sugar
2 tablespoon DijonStyle mustard
2 tablespoon Worchestershire sauce
Salt and pepper
Tabasco sauce; optional or
to taste

In a saucepan, cook onions in oil over moderate heat until tender. Stir in
garlic, red pepper flakes and chile powder, and cook for one minute. Add
ketchup, beer, vinegar, water, brown sugar, mustard, Worcestershire sauce,
salt, black pepper, and Tabasco sauce, stirring to combine. Partially cover
and simmer until slightly thickened, 15 to 20 minutes. Taste and adjust
seasoning, if necessary, with Tabasco sauce. Remove sauce from heat and
allow to cool completely. Sauce can be refrigerated for two to three weeks
or frozen for up to a month. Yields about 2 cups.

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 669 by ncanty@juno.com (Nadia I
Canty) on Feb 1, 1998