Brown Sauce

Name: Brown Sauce
Yield: Makes about 1 litre
Ingredients: 1 onion, peeled and chopped; 500 g pitted dates; 1 chilli, deseeded and chopped; 2 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped; 75 ml orange juice; 75 ml cold water; 40 ml malt vinegar; 75 ml apple juice; 50 g black strap molasses; 45 g glucose; 25 g tomato paste; 50 g tamarind extract; 2 tbsp Chinese 5-spice powder; 20 g cornflour; ½ tsp mustard powder; 1 tsp table salt

Preparation info

Makes about
1 litre

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

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By Adam Byatt

Published 2010

About

I believe folk are divided when it comes to red and brown sauce. I usually fall into the red camp, but when it comes to homemade I’m never as impressed with tomato sauce as I am with brown. This sweet, spicy brown sauce does away with synthetic flavour and is just great with egg and chips.

Ingredients

500 g pitted dates
1 onion, peeled and chopped
2 cloves

Sauce
Spicy
Vegan

Method

Put all the ingredients into a saucepan and cover the surface closely with a ‘lid’ of parchment paper. Simmer gently over a low heat for 50 minutes, until all of the fruit is completely soft. Remove from the heat and leave to cool for 30 minutes.
Transfer the contents of the pan to a blender and blend well, then decant into sterilized containers while warm. Sea