Darren’s brown sauce

Name: Darren’s brown sauce
Yield: Makes 1 kg (2 lb 3 oz)
Ingredients: salt flakes; ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; ½ teaspoon ground anise; ½ teaspoon ground cloves; 50 g (1¾ oz) black treacle or molasses; 50 ml (1¾ fl oz) apple-cider vinegar; ½ teaspoon allspice; ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; 50 ml (1¾ fl oz) malt vinegar; 200 ml (7 fl oz) white-wine vinegar; 250 ml (8½ fl oz/1 cup) apple juice; 125 ml (4 fl oz/½ cup) water; 125 g (4½ oz/½ cup) tamarind purée; 125 g (4½ oz/½ cup) tomato paste (concentrated purée); 250 g (9 oz) red onion, chopped; 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) granny smith apples, peeled, cored and diced; 100 g (3½ oz) medjool dates, pitted and chopped; 1 garlic clove, finely grated with a microplane

Preparation info

Makes
1 kg

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chefs Eat Breakfast Too

By Darren Purchese

Published 2019

About

Ingredients

500 g (1 lb 2 oz) granny smith apples, peeled, cored and diced
250

Sauce
Vegan
Breakfast

Method

Put the apples in a large cast-iron pot or heavy-based saucepan. Add the onion, garlic, dates, water, apple juice, white-wine vinegar, malt vinegar, tomato paste, tamarind purée and treacle. Place over medium heat and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer the sauce for 45 minutes, stirring regularly. Remove from the heat and leave to cool for 30 minutes.</