This is a recipe I created for dinner tonight and it turned out amazingly well, (especially since I just made it up), and I actually wish I'd made more! I served this sauce with some deep-fried battered jumbo king prawns (or Quorn fillets for those who don't like prawns, which in this house is everyone but me) and boiled brown rice. I will be posting the recipe for the prawns/Quorn meal later on (and this recipe can also be used for chicken or pork) but for now here's the wonderful sauce.
You can also start this sauce off by chopping a small onion and frying in a little oil until soft before adding the rest of the ingredients. I was somehow out of onions or I would have done this too. Other foods like carrots, mushrooms and bell peppers can also be added depending on what you feel like having.
Ingredients
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons sugar
6 tablespoons white rice vinegar
4 tablespoons chopped tomatoes (I used part of a carton with added onion & basil)
1 tablespoon concentrated tomato purée
3 tablespoons water
1 vegetable stock cube
½ teaspoon fresh grated ginger
¼ teaspoon chopped red chilli
1 clove garlic, crushed
2 1cm thick slices of fresh pineapple, core removed
Generous dash of soy sauce (or if like me you appear to be out of this then good old Worcestershire sauce will work)
Freshly ground salt and pepper
Method
1. Put honey, sugar and the rice vinegar into a pan. Heat until the honey and sugar have dissolved into the vinegar.
2. Add the tomatoes, puree, soy sauce and water and bring to the boil.
3. Once boiling turn the heat down low and crumble in the stock cube. Stir in the ginger, chilli and garlic and leave to simmer.
4. Chop the pineapple slices into small chunks and add to the simmering sauce, season with salt and pepper to taste if necessary. Leave on the heat to thicken, stirring occasionally, making sure it doesn't burn or stick to the pan.
You can make this sauce slightly in advance of your meal if you wish and reheat when you are serving, or do as I did and make it before the rest of the dinner, the time you take to prepare the rest of the meal will allow enough time for the sauce to simmer and thicken into a beautifully delicious sticky sauce.
