This easy homemade BBQ Rub with a touch of Manuka honey is going to be your award winning recipe for anything grilled this summer and beyond. Whether you love to use a dry rub recipe on your BBQ recipes, you are going to be delighted to taste it on either grilled meat or vegetables.
We love to grill a variety of foods for our guests. Some are vegetarians, some do eat only chicken, and others enjoy anything meat. But what unites a vast majority of our amazing friends, they love BBQ rubs and sauces recipes.
Every now and then, I change my condiments and come up with something exquisitely new. Adding Manuka honey from New Zealand to a grilling experience could become your next favorite thing to do.
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To add to your nibbling experience, you can easily fill small bowls with Dark Ale & Garlic Mustard. It is a beautiful finishing sauce for beef, rack of lamb or roast pork. Also, it can be served with any of your fresh salads. Non-GMO local New Zealand ingredients contribute to an authentic food and recipe experiences.
Dry Rub Recipe for Your Favorite BBQ
This homemade BBQ rub is so good on all of your grilled meats and vegetables! Make one batch as a trial run for yourself. And if you really love it, increase the recipe two or three times, depending on how big the party is going to be. Store the dry ingredients in a glass container with a tight lid. When you are ready for the BBQ party, just mix dry ingredients with the Manuka honey. You are ready to celebrate!
Check out one of my favorite Tilapia Recipes with Manuka Honey!
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Ingredients
- 1/4 cup Nature Manuka Honey
- 1 teaspoon Fuji Fire Hot Sauce or hot sauce from your pantry
- 1 teaspoon New Zealand Sea Salt or sea salt you've got in your pantry
- 1 tablespoon cumin
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Pour Manuka honey in a separate medium size bowl.
- Mix all dry ingredients in a separate medium bowl.
- Combine dry ingredients with honey by pouring them into the bowl with Manuka honey. Mix well.
- Brush this mixture on your favorite BBQ meats and veggies.

Add Mesquite Smoked Pacific Sea Salt to BBQ Rub Recipes
It is so easy to create new BBQ flavors for your summer BBQs. For example, just varying different salts in your BBQ rub recipes will bring out different aromas and flavor experiences.
The Pacific Sea Salt is combined with the finest Louisiana family’s smoked Mesquite process. Add this Mesquite Smoked salt to your fresh salads, avocados, scrambled eggs and BBQ meats. You can also experiment and add this salt to your unique and easy homemade BBQ rub recipe. Don’t be afraid to experiment to find your favorite tastes and flavors!
This salt is harvested from the great southern oceans that sweep into Marlborough Sound between New Zealand’s North and South Islands into the drying field. The waters are evaporated using the natural drying process of the sun and wind for 13-22 months. This method helps retain all the sea salt’s natural trace elements and perfect pH balance.
pH Balance is Achieved by Lowering Acidity in the Body.
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The clean oceans surrounding New Zealand allow to get some of the purest and rich with nutrients salts. The naturally dried salt is combines with a unique Louisiana formula from a special family blend of herbs and spices to give this specific Southern BBQ taste. Try this salt on your grilled veggies and meats to experience an authentic Louisiana taste.
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A unique salt processing creates distinctive, pyramid crystal flakes.

Good Margarita has a delicious salt rim
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23 thoughts on “Easy Homemade BBQ Rub with Manuka Honey for Grilled Meat & Veggies”
Great recip babe!
Oh Boy, I’m always looking for new recipes for my family. Not familiar with Manuka Honey, cant wait to taste…🤩🤩
Weather permitting, we grill at least once a week in the summer months, so these would be used primarily in that.
The honey would make a tasty addition to marinates.. Especially to pork!
A homemade bbq rub is going to be my next new project. I am in love with everything that is grilled and of course edible as well. This is a nice recipe to try indeed.
Great rub for my meats and veggies before I put it on the grill. Your recipe looks really delicious and I can’t wait to try it. Thanks for sharing and the chance to win.
We love grilling in the summer, my kids especially. We’d definitely be cooking up some chicken along with corn and asparagus!
I would use it over chicken on the grilll
I’d use this for our backyard BBQs and get=togethers!
I definitely want to try and make this. I’ll get meat for this weekend!
Looks like a great rub! I’ll have to give it a try this weekend.
We love grilling, but we are in Florida and it is HOT over here now, we are limiting it to the cooler days. Never heard of Manuka Honey looks like it’s a product we want to try for sure.
I have to show this to my husband! He loves to grill and barbecue, and this rub sounds like something he’d be very interested in. I love the honey.
This needs to happen for our next ourdoor party! Looks so yummy!
That Manuka Honey looks like it makes amazing homemade marinades for BBQ season. And, that smoked margarita salt sounds amazing, have to try that.
I love making my own rubs and marinades! Got to give your food lots of flavor!
YUM!! I need like all of these!!!
That sounds really good. I’ve never made my own rub before. I definitely need to give this recipe a try.
My husband has three different grills and is always trying new recipes. I’ll have to share this one with him for next time!
We love grilling, but we tend to grill less in the summer (since it’s currently 110 degrees here). I’m saving this for when the weather cools down a little. Looks delish!
I’d really like to try this on some ribs. We tend to like a little heat in our barbecue flavors so the touch of Fuji Fire sauce is sounding really good.
These spices sound amazing. I love Manuka honey so I bet I would love these spices.
My brother-in-law loves to grill! He will appreciate this for a difference when he’s grilling.