Food and Recipes Meat Pork and Ham 10 Sauces For Pork To Instantly Upgrade Suppertime No matter what you're serving, these flavor-filled sauces take any pork dinner from good to great. By Jenna Sims Jenna Sims Jenna Sims is a Digital Editor for Southern Living and joined the team in 2014. She writes, produces, and ideates content with a focus on email growth and commerce content. She covers a range of topics in the lifestyle space from holiday gift guides to new product launches to tips for cooking with your air fryer. Southern Living's editorial guidelines Updated on November 28, 2022 Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos Photo: Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Prissy Lee Montiel A finishing sauce can be an essential part of every meal. Whether you're serving pork tenderloin, pork chops, pork loin, or pork roast, a flavor-filled sauce is guaranteed to take any pork dinner from good to great. You can make many of these easy sauce recipes with pantry staples, so you can quickly whip them up while the pork cooks. From mustard sauces to plum sauces to BBQ sauces and more, here are ten great sauce recipes for pork to try the next time there's pork on the dinner menu. 01 of 10 Blackberry-Honey Mustard Sauce Hector Sanchez; Styling: Buffy Hargett Miller We created this sweet mustard sauce to top our Pork Tenderloin Sliders. Make the pork in advance if you follow this slider recipe because it must chill for one to 12 hours before serving. When ready, top with this tangy, sweet blackberry mustard. 02 of 10 Alabama White Sauce Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Prissy Lee Montiel Alabama White Sauce has a mayonnaise base, unlike other BBQ sauce varieties. All you have to do is whisk the ingredients together, and it's ready to serve. You can whip this sauce up on a moment's notice. 03 of 10 Mustard Sauce Photo: Alison Miksch Dijon mustard comes together with cream, chicken broth, and lemon juice to create a bright sauce for pork chops that's tangy and creamy. Top the pork chops with breadcrumbs for a crunchy texture. These pork chops make an excellent dish for any weeknight dinner. 04 of 10 Mustard-Cream Sauce Alison Miksch; Styling: Caroline M. Cunningham Sour cream serves as the base for this rich sauce. Add Creole mustard for an extra kick of flavoring. In under 15 minutes, you can have a unique sauce perfect to top any meat or fish dinner. 05 of 10 Eastern North Carolina Vinegar BBQ Sauce Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Prissy Lee Montiel All four ingredients, which you probably already have on hand, are needed to create this light BBQ sauce. For a simple, straightforward sauce, combine distilled white vinegar with kosher salt, crushed red pepper, and black pepper. Try this sauce on pork or any other meat you prepare. 06 of 10 Pork Tenderloin Dijon Pan Sauce Southern Living This sauce for pork tenderloin uses pan drippings to create a homemade gravy that will take your pork to new heights. Fresh herbs and shallots add a unique flavoring. The velvety texture pairs perfectly with pork tenderloin. 07 of 10 South Carolina Mustard BBQ Sauce Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Prissy Lee Montiel Mustard BBQ sauce is an ideal combination of tangy and sweet. This straightforward sauce is only six ingredients. It's slightly sweet from the brown sugar and honey and a touch of spiciness from the cayenne and black pepper. 08 of 10 Kansas City BBQ Sauce Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Prissy Lee Montiel Ketchup makes this vinegar-based sauce thicker than other recipes. Store it in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to a week. Chili powder and cayenne pepper add a unique flavoring to this sauce, but the celery seeds bring an unmistakable zing. 09 of 10 Honey Barbecue Sauce Photo: Greg DuPree; Prop Styling: Kay E. Clarke; Food Styling: Cat Steele This five-ingredient sauce is guaranteed to become a staple in your kitchen, especially when you realize how easy it is to make. Combine ketchup, honey, Worcestershire sauce, and unsalted butter with some lemon slices for zest. Have a sauce perfect for pork or as a dipping sauce that you'll want to put on everything. 10 of 10 Texas-Style BBQ Sauce Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Prissy Lee Montiel Add a punch of warm spices and tanginess to any meat. The smoky flavoring in this BBQ sauce helps enhance the meat's flavors. Combine Worcestershire sauces, apple cider, ketchup, chili powder, ground cumin, and brown sugar for this put-on-anything sauce. After all these delicious recipes, you'd be lucky to have any leftover pork. If you do, here are the best and easiest leftover pork recipes to carry you through the week. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit