Sauce for Cooked Meats

Name: Sauce for Cooked Meats
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: ½ tsp lovage seed; 2 tbsp wine; 2 tbsp honey; 2 tbsp fish sauce; 1 tbsp vinegar; generous freshly ground pepper; 1 level tsp celery seed; ½ tsp ground myrtle berry; 3 heaped tsp chopped fresh mint; 1 tbsp olive oil

Apicius 6.2.7

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking Apicius

By Sally Grainger

Published 2006

About

Another dipping sauce designed for cooked meats. Akin to mint sauce but with a more piquant flavour that cuts through fatty meats, it is not only good with lamb but also suitable for pork.

Ingredients

½ tsp lovage seed
1 level tsp celery seed
generous freshly ground pepper

Europe
Italy
Rome
Sauce
Mediterranean
Christmas
Gluten-free

Method

Roast and grind the first two spices, mix with the pepper and combine with the herbs in a bowl. Add the other liquids and whisk together. If necessary, warm the honey a little to ensure it blends fully with the other ingredients.