Get ready for football season with this zero-carb homemade Dr Pepper Barbecue Sauce coating your favorite proteins! In our case, this would be Glazed Chicken and Pork Belly Wings! These sweet and spicy bites are air-fried or oven-baked to perfection and glazed with this awesome sauce.
Dr Pepper BBQ Sauce is a mouthwatering sugar-free, sticky-sweet glaze to coat your pork belly and wings, drizzle on pork sandwiches, hot dogs, and so much more. This versatile favorite brings a depth of flavor that's sure to make your tastebuds dance.
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❤️ Why I Love This Recipe
✔️ This is one of the best homemade sauces to use for party wings!
✔️ This Dr Pepper Barbecue Sauce tastes delicious on most proteins. Use it on everything from beef ribs to a veggie burger!
✔️ This homemade Dr Pepper glaze makes a great gift!
🥘 Ingredients
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Diet Dr Pepper, this adds a specific flavor and sweetness to the barbecue sauce.
Sugar-free brown sugar substitute, this is usually an intense natural sweetener and sugar substitute that has no artificial ingredients, calories, or carbohydrates, one like this.
Garlic powder is derived from dehydrated garlic. I like to use this garlic powder.
Tomato paste is an inexpensive thickener often used to enrich the flavor of dishes.
Coconut aminos are derived from the sap of a coconut plant and is a soy free product that is keto friendly. This is the brand I use.
Hot chili pepper sauce is a hot sauce derived from chili peppers. This is what I use.
Red chili pepper flakes are a spice that comes from dried and crushed red chili peppers and adds extra heat to the sauce.
Butter adds fat and flavor to this barbecue sauce recipe.
🔪 Instructions
- In a medium-sized saucepan over medium heat, add the Diet Dr. Pepper, brown sugar substitute, garlic powder, tomato paste, coconut aminos, hot chili pepper sauce, chili pepper flakes, and butter. Stir to combine.
- Continue to stir as butter melts and sugar has dissolved.
- Cook until sauce begins to boil.
- Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
- The cause will thicken once cooled.
🙋 Recipe FAQ's
This recipe is technically a dirty keto recipe due to the fact that the diet soda is sweetened with an unapproved keto sweetener. If you want to be keto friendly try this brand of diet soda.
The barbecue sauce should be simmered on a low setting until it thickens. As the sauce reduces from the simmering, it should evaporate and thicken naturally. If not, add ½ tablespoon more of tomato paste to aid in thickening the sauce.
👪 Serving size
How many servings does this recipe make?
- This recipe makes 2 delicious cups of Dr Pepper glaze!
- 2 cups equal 32 tablespoons and 2 tablespoons are a serving. Therefore there are 16 servings of sauce. This will cover a lot of wings 🙂
💭 Tips
- Keep glazed wings on the warm setting in a slow cooker to prevent food from getting cold.
- Have plenty of Regular and Diet Dr. Pepper on hand for all your football-loving fans!
- Substitute your favorite diet root beer or cola for the Dr. Pepper.
Serving Suggestions
This is a great sauce to use to glaze Air Fryer Chicken Wings or pork belly wings.
This Dill Pickle Pasta Salad is a great side dish to serve with glazed wings.
Use this homemade dr pepper bbq Sauce to coat these Air Fryer Pork Chops.
Storage
Store in a covered container in the refrigerator up to 2 weeks.
More Barbecue Sauce Reipes
Raspberry Chipotle Sauce for Pork Back Ribs
Strawberry Rhubarb Chipotle BBQ Sauce
Grilled Dry Rub Back Ribs with Sugar Free Barbecue Sauce
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📖 Recipe
Zero Carb Dr Pepper Barbecue Sauce
Ingredients
- 16 ounces Diet Dr Pepper
- ¾ cup sugar free brown sugar substitute
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon minced onion flakes
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- ¼ cup coconut aminos
- 1½ tablespoon hot chili pepper sauce
- ½ teaspoon chili pepper flakes
- 4 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- In a medium-sized saucepan over medium heat, add the Diet Dr. Pepper, brown sugar substitute, garlic powder, tomato paste, coconut aminos, hot chili pepper sauce, chili pepper flakes, and butter. Stir to combine.
- Continue to stir as the butter melts and the sweetener has dissolved. Cook until the sauce begins to boil.
- Reduce the heat and simmer the barbecue sauce for 20 minutes or until the sauce has reduced and thickened.
Lindsay Cotter
Love the sweet and spicy flavors going on! This is epic game day food!
Toni | Boulder Locavore
I really can't wait to give this a try! Looks really good!
Elizabeth
These look so good! I'm going to to make them for guests this Wednesday night. Thanks for the inspo!
Alida | Simply Delicious
SO juicy! My kids will be ALL over that.