Prune and Red Wine Sauce

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

  • About

This sauce doesn’t take a minute to make, and its sharpness and sweetness go so very well with roast pork.

Ingredients

  • Fat and juices from roasting the pork
  • 1 medium onion, skinned and finely chopped
  • 1 rounded tbsp flour

Method

Drain some of the fat and juices from the pork into a saucepan while the pork is cooking (there is no need to wait until the last minute to make this sauce). Add the onion to the saucepan. Cook over a moderate heat for 5–7 minutes, stirring occasionally, then stir in the flour. Cook for a further couple of minutes, then gradually add the red wine and vegetable stock, stirring continuously until