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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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Slow Roast Pork with Kale & Leaks, recipe, eat well on universal credit

The Pork was an offcut from our latest home cured Bacon, so to wasn't the biggest bit of meat.

Ingredients:-

300g of Pork Loin
1 Leak, chopped
50g of Kale, chopped
50g of Frozen Peas
500ml of Chicken Stock
1 Tsp of Fennel Seeds
1 Tbsp of Pomegranate Molasses
1 Tsp of Sesame Oil
1 Tsp of Whole Grain Mustard
½ An Onion, chopped
Salt & Pepper to season
A handful of chopped Parsley, to garnish

Method:-

(1) Add the Sesame Oil to the Rind of the Pork and rub in a little Salt.
(2) Add the Pork to a roasting tin with 250ml of Stock.
(3) Sprinkle the Fennel Seeds over the Pork.
(4) Place in a pre-heated oven at 200c for 15 minutes.
(5) Reduce the heat to 150c and cook for 1 ½ hours until the Pork is tender.
(6) Remove the Pork and set aside.
(7) Add the Stock from the tray to a frying pan with the Onions.
(8) Bring to the boil and then reduce to a simmer.
(9) Add the Leeks, Kale and Peas with the remaining Chicken Stock.
(10) Add the Mustard, Parsley and season with Salt & Pepper.
(11) Add the Pomegranate Molasses and simmer for 5 minutes.
(12) Slice the Pork diagonally and serve oven the Kale / Leek combination with the cooking juices pored over.
(13) Garnish with Parsley and enjoy.

We actually called the greens “Green Windy Mountain” You can probably work out why!

 

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