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Spanish Sofrito Sauce

Eliza — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:32:15 +0000

Ingredients: 12 ripe plum tomatoes, skinned and deeseeded 1 1/2 cups good quality olive oil 2 large sweet Spanish onions, peeled and finely diced 1 tsp caster sugar 1 tsp sea salt 1 tsp Pimientón (Spanish sweet paprika, smoked) 1 tsp chilli powder (hot or whatever you prefer 1 bay leaf (laurel) Method: After skinning, [...]

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Plum Sauce

Eliza — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:06:24 +0000

This is a very simple plum sauce I threw together when I had an abundance of plums – the local market was selling end of season plums for 1 euro for 2 kilos! Ingredients 1 kilo of plums (preferably very ripe) 100g of Sugar 100ml of water Wash and de-stone the plums. Throw them in [...]

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How to thicken sauces

Eliza — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:47:25 +0000

Flour – this can be used in three ways to make a roux, a beurre maniÃ© or simply mixed with water or milk. Roux – this is made by melting the butter and mixing in the flour then cooking over a medium heat for 5 minutes. The â€œclassicâ€ recipes tend to call for equal quantities [...]

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Homemade Tomato Frito

Eliza — Fri, 18 May 2007 07:47:33 +0000

In many of my recipes you will often hear me mention using a tomato frito, which we often buy ready made here in Spain. However, in case you do not have this option and would like to try how much richer it makes a dish, please feel free to use the following recipe. Ingredients 1 [...]

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Cranberry Sauce with Red Wine & Orange

Eliza — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 22:22:53 +0000

This is my own recipe made up on the cuff one fine Christmas day several year ago. Its transpired transpired because I lacked a recipe at the time – and once we had it this way no other recipe would do. Once you have tasted homemade cranberry sauce you’ll never buy the readymade again! Personally [...]

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