Plum Sauce
A perfect partner for any meat dish — give it a try!
Daria ☼
Recipe author
Plum Sauce
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 9 %
1 g
Fats 0 %
0 g
Carbohydrates 91 %
10 g
43 kcal
GI:
100
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- A friend brought me this recipe back from China. Apparently almost all the meat there is served with a sweet-and-sour sauce, and plum sauce is the most popular of all — even here. It goes with just about any meat dish, but you'll see for yourself. I'd start with the plums and ginger: peel them, chop them finely, and add them to a pot of water. Use only fresh ginger root about the size of a plum — never the pickled kind. While the water heats up, I quickly peel the garlic and crush the cloves into the pot. You're meant to add just a couple of cloves, but I played with the amount and threw in five crushed cloves at once. It turned out great — I think it even improved the sauce, though that's down to taste. Then I add a finely chopped apple, 100 g (about ⅖ cup) of vinegar, and a tablespoon of light soy sauce. Now you can add a little pepper. If you don't like things too spicy, a pinch of black pepper is plenty — but I like a kick, so I add both kinds of pepper at once, and the sauce is all the better for it. Once it comes to a boil, I take the lid off and let the sauce simmer for half an hour, stirring and tasting now and then. Mine seemed too tart, so I stirred in a couple of spoonfuls of sugar — it certainly doesn't hurt. Take the sauce off the heat as soon as it thickens, let it cool for a few minutes, then blend everything until smooth. Trust me — for roasted or braised meat, you won't find a tastier sauce!
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Apples - 47 kcal/100g
- Dried apples - 210 kcal/100g
- Canned apple mousse - 61 kcal/100g
- Plum - 42 kcal/100g
- Fresh-frozen plum - 52 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Ginger - 80 kcal/100g
- Dried ginger - 347 kcal/100g
- Pickled ginger - 51 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Soy sauce - 51 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Ground red pepper - 318 kcal/100g
- Balsamic vinegar - 88 kcal/100g
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