Piloncillo BBQ Sauce

Name: Piloncillo BBQ Sauce
Yield: Makes about 1 cups.
Cuisine: Mexico
Ingredients: Kosher salt; 1 clove garlic, peeled and chopped; 3–4 teaspoons white vinegar; ¼ cup tomato sauce; 2 teaspoons olive oil; 2 tablespoons crushed piloncillo sugar (about 1½ ounces), or firmly packed dark brown sugar; 1–2 large chipotle chiles in adobo, roughly chopped; ¼ white onion, peeled and diced; 2 Roma tomatoes, cut into eighths; ¼ cup water

Preparation info

Makes about
1 cups
.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Amor y Tacos

By Deborah Schneider

Published 2010

About

Ingredients

2 teaspoons olive oil
¼ white onion, peeled and diced
1 clove

Americas
Mexico
Sauce
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Heat the olive oil in a medium sauté pan over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring often, until it is soft but not brown. Add the garlic and cook 1 minute longer.
Add 1 of the chipotles, the piloncillo, and the tomatoes. Cook, stirring often, until the tomatoes are soft and the sugar almost melted, about 3 minutes. Add the water, tomato sauce,