Easiest Way to Winter Perfect Carolina BBQ Mop Sauce

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Carolina BBQ Mop Sauce. This tangy vinegar BBQ mop sauce does something magical when added to pork. Here's how to create your own BBQ sorcery: It's widely recognised that there are several regional styles of barbecue sauce around the United States. Texas, Kansas City, Eastern North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and arguably some lesser known spinoffs too.

Create your own amazing East Carolina vinegar BBQ sauce and mop with this simple to follow recipe.

Tangy and spicy, Low Country vinegar sauce is great for finishing fatty pork and does double duty as a baste (or mop) for adding layers of flavor to the meat as it cooks.

Because it is so thin, it penetrates deep.

You can cook Carolina BBQ Mop Sauce using 7 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Carolina BBQ Mop Sauce

  1. You need of Vinegar (White or Brown).

  2. It’s of Sugar (White or Brown).

  3. It’s of Sea Salt.

  4. Prepare of Crushed Pepper (Red, Chipotle, etc.).

  5. You need of Fresh Cracked Black Pepper.

  6. You need of Hot Sauce.

  7. It’s of Optional: 1 Stick of Butter.

Carolina Mopping Sauce is a vinegar-based BBQ sauce that many pit masters use to baste the meat while it's slow roasting on the barbecue.

It's a very regional sauce and it's quite common to find it here, along with traditional tomato-based sauces, on the table of the local barbecue joints.

The East Carolina mop sauce, to be exact, is basically a combination of hot sauce and vinegar.

This spicy sauce with a vinegary twang is all you need on a properly smoked shoulder or whole hog.

Carolina BBQ Mop Sauce instructions

  1. Mix all in ingredients in a small jar, shake well and refrigerate for at least 24 hours, shaking periodically throughout. The longer you wait the better itll get. Shake it occasionally, like whenever you open your refrigerator door..

  2. Optional: for thicker mop, for basting, heat sauce and stir in softened butter. But, only do this immediately before serving, discard any unused sauce afterwards. Also, use a separate cup for your basting and serving or youll cross-contaminate your food.

You can mop it on the meat while it cooks to cool and flavor it.

Carolina-Style Vinegar BBQ Mop Sauce Brought to you by the venerable Jess Pryles, this sauce is rooted in the Eastern Carolina tradition of serving pulled pork with a heavy vinegar based sauce.

With added spices like brown sugar, chili flakes, paprika, and mustard, this sauce has a great balance of sweet with spice and savory that can easily.

Head to the Carolinas, particularly to the regions around both Lexington and Piedmont, and you will find a BBQ sauce very different than the sweet tomato kind from Kansas City or the smokey sauce from Texas.

Carolina Red Sauce is a thin vinegar based sauce that is very tangy and served as a mop sauce and finishing sauce for pulled pork.