Ingredients:
- 2 bottles balsamic vinegar
- 2 cups brown sugar firmly packed
Method:
Remove the lid and plastic cap from the bottles – keep both as you will need for later when bottling it back up again.
Pour the balsamic vinegar into a wide saucepan – you want the surface area so it reduces quicker. Add the brown sugar. Set on stove on high heat – bring to boil, then reduce temperature to simmer.
Cook for about an hour – you want it to get to a syrupy consistency – keep testing it with a spoon and see if it coats the spoon – once it coats the spoon – remove from heat and allow to cool to about body temperature.
Note: this will reduce to about half the quantity of liquid you started with.
Pour back into bottles (don’t pour it into the bottles if it is too hot as bottles may crack).
Serving ideas:
- use as a marinade or part of a marinade for steak, lamb, chicken
- serve with crusty bread and home made dukkah with olive oil (my favourite)
- use as a salad dressing
- use for extra flavour when cooking up a large batch of capsicum and chillies
Pizza Sauce
Homemade pizza is the best – make it better with our signature pizza sauce.
We always make our own pizza sauce – you can find the dough recipe here. This way we know exactly what’s in the sauce and we can tailor it to suit. It’s a really easy sauce to make, and you can use it for other dishes like a base for the spaghetti sauce, or for chicken parmigiana.
We all love anchovies, you can leave these out if you wish but they do add a nice salty twist to the sauce – and if you don’t tell them its in it, they will never know….(unless there’s an anchovy allergy…)
Ingredients:
- 2 sachets of tomato paste
- 4 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 teaspoon chilli sauce
- 2 tablespoons of capers
- 6-8 anchovies
- fresh herbs (basil or oregano – use dried if not available)
- 1 teaspoon sugar
Chop up the capers and anchovies until they are fine and make a paste.
In a small saucepan over low-medium heat, add the capers, anchovies, garlic and chilli, along with some olive oil or anchovy oil. Stir until it all starts to reduce. Add tomato paste, sugar and fresh herbs. Add water to make a sauce. Bring to boil – set aside until needed.