Plum Sauce
Use very ripe plums to make this super tasting sauce
Makes enough for: 1 batch sauce
Ingredients
- 6 plums, roughly chopped
- 125 mls water
- 60 mls dark soy sauce
- 45 mls coconut sugar
- 2.5 mls chilli flakes
- 3 cm fresh root ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
- 2 star anise
- 1 stick cinnamon, rolled in your hands to release the oils
for the chicken wings
- 8 chicken wings
- salt and freshly ground black pepper to season
Method
- Place the plums into a medium size saucepan and add the water, soy sauce, sugar, chilli, ginger, star anise and cinnamon
- Bring to the boil over a medium to high temperature, stirring until the sugar dissolves
- Reduce the temperature and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring regularly
- Remove the spices and use a stick blender to blend
for the chicken wings
- Season the wings generously and cook on a hot barbecue for 20 minutes (or until done)
- Remove from the heat and slather with the plum sauce
- Serve some extra in a bowl to use as a dipping sauce
to store
- Store any leftover plum sauce in a sterilized glass jar, in the fridge, until used up
Notes
See this post on how I sterilize my glass jars.