Homemade Low Sugar Barbecue Sauce
This barbecue sauce has no added sugar, but you'd never know it.
Stubb’s Original Legendary Bar-B-Q Sauce
I will stand by my decades-long search for the best barbecue sauce on the market, and this is it. It’s what I use for all of my barbecued food, except when I’m of a mind to make my own, or for when I need to limit my sugar intake. While Stubb’s has far less sugar than most on the market, it does have some. My recipe originally came from the SmartCarbCooking website and contains no added sugar.
Homemade Low Sugar Barbecue Sauce

Yield: 6 cups
This barbecue sauce has no added sugar, but you'd never know it.
Ingredients
- 2 14.5 oz cans petite diced tomatoes (like, Hunt's)
- 1 small yellow onion, finely diced
- 1 cup Coke Zero
- 1/3 cup tomato paste
- 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 cup prepared yellow mustard (like, French's)
- 1/4 cup distilled white vinegar
- 1/4 cup sugar-free or no sugar added orange marmalade (like, Polaner All-Fruit)
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp minced garlic
- 1-½ tbsp Mexican-Style chili power
- 1 tbsp Ancho chili powder
- 1 tbsp Splenda
- 1/2 tbsp Liquid Smoke
Instructions
- Put all the ingredients in a sauce pan, mix well, and place over medium high heat.
- Once the contents of the pan starts to simmer, turn the heat to low and cook covered for thirty minutes.
- Allow it to cool for a couple of hours.
- In batches, put the sauce through your blender and blend for 1-2 minutes until the sauce is smooth without any lumps. Do not attempt to do this while the sauce is hot.
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