Low Sugar BBQ sauce?

mrs_sparrow

Was looking for a recipe for pulled pork and the one I have found has tomato puree, oil, onion, spices, can of tomatoes, worcester sauce, paprika - and 85g of brown sugar which is 18 SW syns.

I am trying to find a way to omit the sugar - will it make a difference? Is there anything that I can use that has little or no fats in it that can substitute for the sweet taste. I do not use sweeteners as a rule but for once a week treat I'd consider it - 85g is quite a lot of sugar for what could otherwise be a healthy recipe.

Thanks.

building_with_lego

I'd just leave it out I reckon!
How many portions of pork will the recipe make? 18 "syns" sounds a lot but if you'll get (say) 10 portions of meat it's less than two per portion....

Or try half.

Billie-jo

Just found this http://www.food.com/recipe/diabetic-barbecue-sauce-39288

Or there is http://kentcooks.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/tasty-bbq-sauce-for-diabetics-and-others-who-want-to-eat-healthy/

and also http://bbq.about.com/od/barbecuesaucerecipes/r/ble90602.htm

hope one of them helps. Let us know how they taste if you do decide to use one.

mrs_sparrow

Thanks, I want to cook it in the week (might make it tomorrow).

I never thought about how many portions I'd get out of it - you use a can of tomatoes and I was just going to use it all in the slow cooker.

I was trawling the web and there were a lot of american recipes and they use corn syrup in almost everything, it was only when I was making flapjacks just now I figured that it might be golden syrup, LOL.

I did also wonder if I could use some diet coke/dr pepper or something to give it a bit of a twang but thought it might make it too runny.

I'll post back. Might make a batch and add different ingredient to see which comes out the best and then slow cook the meat in water before mixing it in with the BBQ sauce.

I love pulled pork and was using the Hunters Chicken sauce from Tesco but I dread to think how much sugar is in that - it is just TOOO tasty, LOL

krlyr

Could you switch for a natural sweetener? I know I do a SW recipe in the opposite way - recipe calls for sweetener but I just use a little sugar (I'm not on SW but a friend did the SW recipe when I visited once and it was yummy so yoinked the recipe off her). The recipe I do is chicken & sausage hotpot but they call it "syn-free" so the 2 tspn sweetener can't be deemed syns

building_with_lego

Corn syrup is not golden syrup, which comes from the sugar cane/beet refining industry. Corn syrup comes from maize (sweetcorn) and is implicated in the rapid increase in diabetes. Used a lot in the States because it's cheap cheap cheap. (Read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser for more.)


Let me know how it turns out please, I adore pulled pork but have never made it myself.