Most of you are probably used to eating a sweet or tangy BBQ sauce. You may have even had a mustard based BBQ sauce like we have at Shiver’s. But, have you ever had a white BBQ sauce? If you don’t like mayonnaise this is definitely not for you.
In parts of Alabama, traditional BBQ sauce is made using mayonnaise as a base instead of ketchup, tomato sauce or paste, or vinegar. “Big” Bob Gibson of Decatur invented the white sauce back in 1925. This sauce can be used to baste chicken, seafood and pork. You can also use it as an ingredient to add extra flavor to cole slaw or potato salad.
Like many other sugary barbecue sauces, you want to apply this at the end of your grilling or smoking. The mayonnaise will breakdown if it is heated for too long.