Please post your homemade sauces here please.
What sauces have you made?
I’m hoping to make a homemade hot chilli sauce today.
1 Like
I’m not sure if it’s from scratch, because if the tomato ketchup and it’s definitely not healthy but….
I make this sweet and sour sauce if we fancy Chinese fakeaway
- 2 oz Brown Sugar
- 2 oz Vinegar
- 6 oz Tomato Sauce
- 1 small tin pineapple chunks
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
Just chuck it all in a pan and heat it up!
2 Likes
We have this at least twice a week … cheese, on broccoli and other things:
Teaspoon of oil, butter, plain flour … make a roux, add 1/2 to 1 mug of milk; heat, stir, remove from heat. Boil broccoli in salted water, drain, saving some of the water. Add water to the cold stodgy sauce and reheat, add cheese. Serve.
3 Likes
Let’s not overlook the simple but effective stuff…stir powders (eg curry powder, jerk seasoning, or even just peppercorns etc etc etc) into ready mixed gravy granules, er, gravy.
2 Likes
Onion Gravy
Sweat onion in a little oil/butter till nice & soft
add a heaped teaspoon of plain flour, mix well
add water Oxo (curry powder, jerk seasoning, or even just peppercorns etc etc etc*)
*© @Dextrous63
4 Likes
Pepper sauce:
Sweat shallot
add peppercorns and let heat through
add chicken stock
add cream
if needed, add flour or thickener
I tend to cook for around 5 mins to allow the peppercorns to soften down, and add some crushed pepper for good measure.
Great with steak, chips and peas.
NB- I use a mini egg whisk instead of anything else when making sauces. Seems to help thicken things up and dissipate powder lumps
2 Pcs Silicone Whisk Mini Egg Beater Stirrer Blender for Milk Cream Sauce Honey Kitchen Baking Cooking Beating S0G-1 https://amzn.eu/d/29i0TAM
5 Likes
I’ll be honest and say,I use bought ketchup in my sauces, I have found a great recipe for tomato sauce ,it only takes five mins to make, will post the recipe,when I’ve made it…
I’m wondering what that might be like on a bed of rice, as a light meal. 
2 Likes
Our local Polish shop sells some delish gherkins in sweet vinegar, I love them with all sorts of things.
Don’t waste the vinegar:
A spoon of that with a spoon of ketchup & 2 spoons of Hellmanns mayo makes a lovely sauce, on the side and/or dressing.
I think it would be nice, it’s OK with most things, but like I said, too much sugar to be healthy!
I adore eggs Benedict (my favourite breakfast) and I use a fool proof microwave Hollandaise sauce. It’s the bomb!
2 Likes
Sounds lovely
1 Like
It’s absolutely spectacular. Welcome to OFC Caveman. Although, I recall another Caveman on here not too long ago…
1 Like
Yesterday my made a some made sauce with barbecue chicken. I don’t know what the sauce but it was delicious. Left overs tonight.
1 Like
Just made peppercorn sauce to go with my steak, mushrooms and chips.
Ingredients.
Brandy.
Juices from meat.
Peppercorns.
Beef stock.
Cream.
1 Like
Brandy, cream, mushrooms … makes a nice steak sauce.
Break up the mushrooms, stalks 'n all, into pieces not too small, throw into a hot pan/wok with a little oil. Keep tossing, keep hot, mushrooms will shrink losing water, add bandy, tilt pan to ignite, water’s gone, keep tossing … add cream, heat, pour over steak.
1 Like
All lovely. Not sure I’d put brandy in though, purely out of personal preference.
1 Like
Dex, if you cook the alcohol out, you can’t even taste it, found the recipe online, I thought exactly the same as you, it was delicious, in fact I wanted to cook the other steak I had left, I still have some sauce left, I’m going to try the one dood recommended tomorrow…I haven’t had steak in years.
I coked the steak in butter, garlic olive oil, I added salt, wish I hadn’t, forgot it was salted butter, it was still delicious and I licked the pan,
I know @pauline3, but I’m just not keen on the taste of brandy. Nothing to do with temperance at all😉
Getting the salt balance can be tricky, as you say. Onions are a bit salty, butter is salty, and beef stock is salty.
Does the sauce keep? Thought it might congeal a bit, and would welcome being told that it heats up.again just fine.
1 Like