If you are craving Arby’s Sauce at home, this sweet and tangy BBQ sauce is quick and easy to throw together and requires minimal ingredients.
Confession time. I wish babies were born two years old. I really do. The little pooping rogue alarm clocks stress me out something fierce. However, since I work from home it is Daddy Daycare until mommy gets home. I am mostly just tasked with keeping the baby alive until 2:30 pm then my wife rescues me, and so far I’ve been fairly successful. On the flip side, I really like toddlers, they are adorably irrational but still perfectly capable of communication.
My daughter is a toddler and she is now old enough to want to mimic everything we do. This is a fun age to start cooking with them. Though I strongly believe children shouldn’t flambé until at least pre-school, making recipes like this Arby’s Sauce is perfect to do with children. They love being helpful – holding the measuring cups as you fill it and stirring the ingredients together.
I stumbled upon my Arby’s Sauce recipe by accident. I made my Brown Sugar Meatloaf for dinner last week and tasted the sauce before I slathered it over the hamburger mixture and thought, “EUREKA this reminds me of Arby’s!” Then the other day I swung through the Arby’s drive-thru to get an Arby’s Roast Beef Sandwich and requested a few packets of their Arby’s Sauce to bring home to deconstruct.
How to Make Arby’s Sauce
Upon doing an initial taste test between my meatloaf sauce and the Arby’s Sauce I instantly noticed their tangy BBQ sauce had a strong flavor of Worchestshire. When tweaking my recipe I found 2 tablespoons to be a bit too much, but 4 teaspoons put us pretty dang close. Arby’s sauce also had a subtle heat I didn’t initially notice. Cayenne pepper seems to replicate it nicely.
Though the sauce tastes great simply mixed together, it really needs to be simmered briefly on the stove top. This melts the brown sugar into the sauce, giving you a smoother texture.
I store my copycat Arby’s Sauce in canning jars, however, you can buy empty sauce bottles as well.
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If you are craving Arby's Sauce at home, this sweet and tangy BBQ sauce is quick and easy to throw together and requires minimal ingredients.
- 1 cup ketchup
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
- 4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
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Add all ingredients to a small saucepan, stir to combine, and bring to a simmer. Reduce to low and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent scorching.
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Let sauce cool and store in air-tight container in the refrigerator.
IF YOU LIKE THIS RECIPE try slathering it over my Oven Baked BBQ Ribs or learn how to make Arby's Roast Beef Sandwich in your own kitchen!!
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Sounds great,can’t wait to try it! Have any Venison Chili Recipe’s?
Swap out ground venison for the beef and this recipe will rock your world! https://www.foxvalleyfoodie.com/worlds-second-best-chili/!
If 2 tablespoons was too much, shouldn’t it be 4 teaspoons was just enough? It is correct in the recipe, but not in the post!
Thanks for catching that!
How long will it last in the fridge?
If you cook it properly first it will last as long as any BBQ sauce.
I love this!
Tried this recipe and she nailed it
Great to hear!
This is way too much vinegar and brown sugar. About 1/3 of the amounts is much better.
I agree, this recipe tastes nothing like Arby’s sauce. I’ll try your idea of lessening the amount of vinegar and brown sugar next time I give it a shot. But sadly, this is a dud for us.
This sauce was FANTASTIC we loved it.It’s nice too make copycat versions of your favorites without actually eating out so much healthier thank you so much.