Homemade brown sauce
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- makes 1 litre (about 4 small bottles' worth)
Ingredients
- 500g pitted dates
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 chilli, deseeded and chopped
- juice 1 orange
- 75ml apple juice
- 75ml malt vinegar
- 50g molasses
- 50g tamarind paste
- 25g tomato paste
Method
- STEP 1
Put all the ingredients in a large saucepan with 150ml cold water and 1 tsp salt. Cover the surface with baking parchment. Simmer over a low heat for 50 mins until the fruit softens. Cool for 30 mins.
- STEP 2
Transfer to a blender and blend, then decant into containers while warm. Seal and store in the fridge. Will keep for up to 2 months.
