Full Disclosure: I *think* that I have eaten at an Arby’s once, so I am really unfamiliar with their sauce.
Still, when I came across a recipe for their sauce on myrecipes.com, I was intrigued. The ingredients called for were pretty basic, and the prep was next to nothing. As a bonus, I had just, at the request of my husband, picked up a bottle of Heinz 57 Sauce for when we grill, and I figured that if he wanted it as is for meats and chicken, he might could like it in a sauce, so…
INGREDIENTS
•1/2 cup ketchup
•1/2 cup water
•2 tbsp Heinz 57 Sauce
•2 tsp brown sugar
•2 tsp white vinegar
•1 tsp hot sauce
•1/4 tsp onion powder
•1/4 tsp garlic powder
•1/4 tsp kosher salt
•1/4 tsp black pepper
•1/4 tsp Aleppo pepper
•1/8 tsp white pepper
•1/8 tsp allspice
To make the sauce, whisk all of the ingredients together in a bowl or beaker until nicely blended, then transfer to a small jar, cover, and stash in the fridge until needed.
I was a touch concerned about not cooking it, but, when my husband took a taste, he pronounced it quite like what he recalled as Arby’s sauce tasting like, but, mebbe a bit spicier, which, as he pointed out, he more or less expects when I make anything.
And it was good, just as it was, so, make a batch and slather it on burgers or chicken or sammiches or what have you, or…
try it as I did, in Pittsburgh-style barbecued ham sammiches – my, were these tasty!
Those details, tomorrow.