Braai Sauce Recipe

For the best braai sauce recipes, I have mostly gone on what I learnt as a child growing up in Zimbabwe. Commercial braai sauces were not available in the shops and we only went down to South Africa for the traditional beach holiday in Durban once every two years, so we made our own braai sauces and marinades, here are a few of my favorites. For those of you who don't know a South African braai is our (including Zimbabwean) word for barbecue/ barbeque/ BBQ.

This recipe is part of my section on the best BBQ sauces from around the world the other sections include: the best barbecue sauce recipe from the USA, best BBQ sauce recipe from Australia and the best barbeque sauce recipe from Argentina, you can then try them out and let me know which you think is best!

Ok lets get started on the best Braai Sauce Recipe from South Africa

South African Braai SauceSouth African Braai Sauce Recipe

This is a braai sauce recipe that we often used, it can also be used as a marinade or for basting your meat on the braai, you can then use the rest as a braai sauce.

Braai Sauce ingredients
3 or 4 cloves of garlic, crushed or grated
2 medium onions, chopped
1 green sweet pepper, de-seeded and chopped
50 ml brown vinegar
15 ml cooking oil
1 tin whole tomatoes, chopped (don't buy a tin of chopped tomatoes as they are not a good quality)
1 tablespoon of tomato paste
30 ml Worcestershire sauce
2 ml Tabasco Sauce, you can use cayenne pepper as a substitute
50 ml brown sugar
5 ml French mustard
30 ml fruit chutney - preferably Mrs Balls Original Chutney

To Make the Braai Sauce:
making this braai sauce is really easy, all you have to do is:
Heat the oil in a heavy saucepan
Fry the onions, garlic and sweet pepper until the onions are translucent.
Add the vinegar and the remaining ingredients and simmer for 30 minutes.

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If you don't feel like making your own barbeque sauce, why not buy this pack of South African braai sauces and spices. below:

South African Food - Braai Sauses and Spices Gift hamper

Braai (Barbeque) Sauces and Spices

No matter if you call it a braai, bbq or a barbeque make that perfect marinade for your steak one time. Priced at £15.99 I think it is pretty good value for money. The hamper includes: All Gold Tomato Sauce, Robertsons BBQ spice, Steers Special Seasoning Salt, Steers Barbeque Sauce, Knorr Braai Sauce, Marina Braai Salt, Mrs Balls Original Chutney and Aromat Original Barbeque Spice. You can also buy any of these individually as well » Braai Sauces and Spices >>


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I hope you really enjoy your Barbeque Sauce recipe and that you have a great braai (BBQ). If you know of other great barbeque recipes please drop us a line.

The Braai or BBQ Grill

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Call it what you want and however you want to spell it: Braai, Barbeque, Barbecue or BBQ Grill, the item that you cook your meat on is obviously important to the sucess of any BBQ.

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