Diana Sauce Recipe - Replica (2024)

Many Canadians living abroad make a point of buying BBQ Sauce when visiting home. This Replica Diana BBQ Sauce recipe lets you make it anywhere!

Back when I was writing More Than Poutine: Favourite Foods from my Home and Native Land, I polled a ton of Canadian Expats on what all they wanted to see in the book.

Obviously, there would be the traditional national - and regional - dishes that we all know and love.

... but where’s the fun on being able to replicate things from taste, if I didn’t unleash that whole thing on the book?

Replicating Retail Foods

As I’ve mentioned before (Chicken Shahi Korma), my particular “flavour” (Hah!) of autism comes with an interesting skill: I can taste something and know what’s in it. Ingredients, proportions, etc.

Depending on the item, sometimes I ballpark it and have to make minor adjustments, sometimes I can taste something, write out a recipe for it, and have it be bang on.

Other times, I’ll need to look at the nutritional info to solve some questions I’m left with - this can be the case when more “industrial” sweeteners and additives are involved.

In those cases, I’m not only replicating a recipe, but doing so in a way that’s converting it to one that can be made at home, with readily available ingredients. This was the case with my Honey Garlic Sauce Recipe, for instance.

Anyway, it’s a handy skill to have when you’re a Canadian living away from Canada, and all of the best comfort foods are out of reach!

It was something I put to use often, when I was still living in Minnesota. Living away can be stressful, having a bit of home on the dinner table is... well, it’s good for mental health. (You can check out many of my Canadian Recipes right here on the blog, btw)

Diana Sauce

Anyway, as I was saying, I polled a bunch of Canadians living away, when planning the recipes for More Than Poutine...

... and “Diana Sauce” was one of THE most requested recipes.

I shouldn’t have been surprised - Diana Sauce was always a popular item in the frequent “look what I brought back!” brag posts on Canadian expat forums.

See, I was far from alone in my need for foods from back home. People who would vacation home would take photos of MASSIVE hauls of food - sauces, candy, chips, etc - and excitedly post them for all to see.

Food is a great unifier. 🙂

Anyway, Diana Sauce is a line of BBQ sauces that are very popular in Canada. It may be GOLD to some expats, but it retails for about $2-3 / bottle.

My original plan was to just do the original version, which is what I was most used to before moving to the USA.

... then I decided to do 5... and then I ended up doing all 7!

These are very simple BBQ sauces, using very basic ingredients, and only taking minutes to prepare!

Diana BBQ Sauce Recipe Variations

The main recipe in the recipe card (end of the post) is for “Original” sauce... but here is how you can make any of the variation flavours!

This recipe is one of many fantastic Canadian recipes in my cookbook, "More Than Poutine: Favourite Foods from my Home and Native Land”. "More than Poutine" is a Canadian cookbook like no other - written by a Canadian living away, it includes both traditional home cooking recipes, as well as accurate homemade versions of many of the snacks, sauces, convenience foods, and other food items that are hard to come by outside of Canada! Order your copy here on this site, through Amazon, or through any major bookseller!

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5 from 10 votes

Replica Diana Sauce

Many Canadians living abroad make a point of buying BBQ Sauce when visiting home. This Replica Diana Sauce recipe lets you make it anywhere!

Prep Time5 minutes mins

Cook Time10 minutes mins

Total Time15 minutes mins

Course: Condiment

Cuisine: Canadian

Servings: 32 Servings / 2 cups

Calories: 31kcal

Author: Marie Porter

Ingredients

• 1 cup Canned tomato puree
• 1 cup Granulated sugar
• ¾ cup White vinegar
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
• 1 tablespoon Molasses
• 1 teaspoon Garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• ½ teaspoon Onion powder
• ½ teaspoon Paprika
• ½ teaspoon Salt
• ½ teaspoon Turmeric
• ¼ teaspoon Cayenne powder
• ¼ teaspoon Ground black pepper

Instructions

• In a medium saucepan, whisk together all ingredients.

• Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes.

• Cool, transfer to storage container, and chill until use.

Notes

For nutritional info, I'm using 2 tablespoon as a serving amount, as the source material does.

See blog post for all the variations on this recipe.

Nutrition

Serving: 2tablespoon | Calories: 31kcal | Carbohydrates: 8g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 46mg | Potassium: 50mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 51IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 1mg