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Chinese Plum Sauce

Chinese Plum Sauce recipe

The woods nearby are laden with Plums this year. We went gathering a few days ago and froze probably 3kg or so. Some of these will probably be brewed at some stage, if we don’t make sauces out of them first….

This was a supposed traditional Chinese recipe I searched out. It certainly was much sharper and acidic than the Plum sauce we are familiar with. Sue suggested that this could well be the foundations of the Anglicised Sweet and Sour sauce. Add a bit of Corn flour and a triangle or two of tinned Pineapple and you’d certainly be on the right tracks. Actually don’t do that!

Ingredients:-

 340g of Plums
 3 tablespoons Vinegar
 1 tablespoon of brown Sugar
 1 Onion minced
 1 teaspoon of Chilli flakes
 2 cloves of Garlic, minced
 1/2 teaspoon ground Ginger

Method:-

(1) Add everything to a pan. Our Plum were frozen solid but it doesn’t matter.
(2) Bring to the boil and then simmer for half an hour.
(3) Press through a sieve and remove the stones.
(4) Mix the remaining solid content back to the sauce.

We served ours over a few Salt and Pepper fried Pork loin strips (0.72p worth to be exact!)  on a bed of Rice noodles tossed with fried slicked Red Chilli and Savoy Cabbage…. 

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Yes we’ve another round of cooked Turkey to deal with. We all know that recooking Turkey creates a very distinctive and , to us, unpleasant flavour. I think we fixed this!

Marinate Ingredients:-

Soy Sauce (Gluten free for us)
Oyster Sauce
Tonkatsu Sauce (Gluten free for us)
Chilli Flakes

Batter Ingredients:-

2 Eggs
Soda Water
Gram Flour
Cornflour
1 Tsp of Turmeric
1 Tbsp of Baking Powder

Method:-

(1) Cut the cooked Turkey into Inch (2.2Cm) cubes. Not much smaller as you don’t want the meat to be tough or dry.
(2) Mix the marinade ingredients and add your Turkey cubes. We cut 10 cubes, so 5 each to serve.
(3) Pop in the fridge while you make the batter.
(4) Beat the Eggs.
(5) Add a little Soda Water.
(6) Whisk in the Baking Powder.
(7) Whisk in a 50/50 mix of Gram Flour & Cornflour in stages.
(8) You are looking for a very sticky batter. Add Soda Water as required.
(9) Allow to rest for 20 minutes and remove the Turkey from the fridge.
(10) Heat oil to 170c.
(11) After whisking the batter dunk the coated the Turkey in the Batter and fry until they float. Remove and drain.
(12) When your stir-fry in ready to serve, drop back into the oil to brown.
(13) Drain and serve.

We served ours over a bed of Rice Noddles with a simple Stir-Fry over the top.

 

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