Meri's Taco Sauce

We got this as a wedding present in 1995, along with a sauce pan. I remember thinking, "Oh what a neat idea," and then I made the taco sauce and it's been in our rotation for the last thirty years.

What do you do with it? Well, you can stick it on tacos, obviously, but we put it on everything, it's a great all-purpose hot sauce. It's also weirdly good as a salad dressing.

Ingredients

• 3 tbsp brown sugar (you can add a little more sugar to make a sweet-hot sauce, and that's amazing, too)
• 1 tbsp paprika
• 2 tsp dry mustard
• 1 tsp chili powder
• 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
• 1/4 cup cider vinegar
• 1/4 cup catsup
• 1 can (6oz) tomato juice (we use Spicy V8 juice!)

Directions

Heat until boiling, then simmer 15-20 minutes or until ready to eat.

If you want to triple the recipe

And you do because it's hella good and you'll want to put it over everything:

Recipes x3

• 1/3 C brown sugar
• 3 T paprika
• 2 T dry mustard
• 3 t chili powder
• 3/4 t cayenne pepper
• 3/4 C apple cider vinegar
• 3/4 ketchup