Prunes & Fresh Plum Sauce

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Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup Del Monte prunes soaked in port wine or orange juice for a few hours
  • 1 tbsp orange marmalade/zest
  • 30ml vinegar
  • 40g brown sugar
  • 5-6 cloves garlic
  • 4 plums, stoned
  • Salt to taste
  • Water as required for desired consistency

Method

  1. Place all the ingredients except water in a heavy bottom, non reactive saucepan. Simer for 25-30 minutes, stitting once in a while.
  2. Cool slightly and blend to a smooth puree adding water as desired. Store in a glass jar in the fridge for 2-3 weeks.

 

Photographs and Recipe courtesy of Deeba Rajpal.

Deeba’s current obsession is baking with fruit, exploring new ingredients like beets, alternative flours, gluten free foods etc. She enjoys food styling, food photography, recipe development and cookbook/product reviews. She also contributes to various publications on freelance basis, do cookbook and product reviews and sometimes carries out recipe testing on request.

Passionate About Baking is a food blog about baking, cooking, photography, food trends, cuisines and cultures. It’s mainly about ‘Doing Food From Scratch’.

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