Plum sauce

The sauce can be called one of the greatest culinary inventions, since thanks to it you can significantly enrich the taste of almost any prepared dish. For example, an already delicious juicy piece of meat acquires completely different shades using different sauces. By the way, the culinary world even has its own saying regarding this indispensable dressing - the taste of any dish that is not even quite successful can be corrected with a good sauce.

There are a large number of varieties of sauces today. Among such a variety, a special niche is occupied by plum sauce, which is almost an analogue of the famous Georgian tkemali sauce. However, a significant difference between these dishes is the composition of each sauce. In particular, for the preparation of tkemali, a certain variety of wild acidic plums is needed along with their obligatory companion - seasoning with the mysterious name ombalo.

At the same time, to make a classic plum sauce, you can take absolutely any plums at hand. And the set of spices and spices, as a rule, is chosen by the cook himself. It is mainly coriander and hop-suneli.

The preparation of plum sauce, which is characterized by a rich sour-sweet taste and a fruity aroma, looks like this: fresh plums are cooked in a small amount of water directly until the bones leave. Boiled berries are filtered out and then wiped through a sieve or colander to produce a kind of liquid puree (juice with pulp).

The resulting plum juice is evaporated to a density of ketchup, after which spices and spices, as well as salt and sugar are added to it. This mass boils for about five minutes and crushed garlic is added to it. When hot, the plum sauce is bottled with a wide throat and stored in a cold place.

Plum sauce is great as a sweet and sour supplement for meat and fish dishes, vegetables and potatoes, skewer chicken, pasta and bread. By the way, it is customary to serve it to fish and meat with fresh parsley and dill greens, which are placed separately and added to taste.

The plum sauce's excellent finish makes it very popular with numerous lovers of a variety of savoury supplements. The whole bouquet of used spices and seasonings is perfectly revealed by the unique aroma of this sauce.

By the way, its unconditional advantage, in addition to its directly excellent taste, is its long shelf life. So by making and buying plum sauce, you'll get a real lifesaver for your culinary creations.