Plum BBQ Sauce

[Fairview]

When you want something different. Recommend this as a alternate choice second to your go to sauce. A little sweet for pork IMO. My rating is, "Eh, It's okay."

TBSP olive oil
3/4 cup chopped yellow onion
2 garlic cloves minced.
Cook over medium high heat for about 2 minutes then add following, bring to simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

2 cups ripe plums, chopped with skins on
1/2 cup of tomato sauce
2TBSP brown sugar
2TBSP Worcester sauce
2TBSP balsamic vinegar
1 chipolte pepper in adobe sauce
1TBSP adobe sauce.

Allow to cool then into a blender until smooth

[PitRow]

sounds interesting! Thanks for sharing.

[Richtee]

I have used plum before... it's a really nice flavor and slight 'tang"... leave the skins on I found indeed. Hmm maybe I'll give yours a run...looks good :{)

[HawgHeaven]

That sounds interesting for sure... what was it that you didn't think was quite there when you gave it the "Eh, It's okay" rating?

[Fairview]

That sounds interesting for sure... what was it that you didn't think was quite there when you gave it the "Eh, It's okay" rating?

I like a sauce that has a delayed punch. Something that doesn't overwhelm but enhances the flavor of whatever it is put on. The hard part is finding a sauce that does that but at the end of every bite adds the "Whoa, that was a surprise I wasn't expecting!" Check out this link The mustard sauce does that exactly. The BBQ sauce comes close by itself but combined with the pickled onion, the contrasting flavors does it perfectly.

For me this plum sauce was good, it had presence but it was a flat liner. It was there and that was it. No peaks, no valleys. No taste excitement. Probably be an excellent sauce for someone with a soft mouth.

[HawgHeaven]

Okay, gotcha... I've worked on my sauce for awhile, and think I finally got it nailed. The meat speaks for itself, but like you said about the sauce, "Whoa, that was a surprise I wasn't expecting!"

[Mossy]

I have used plum before... it's a really nice flavor and slight 'tang"... leave the skins on I found indeed. Hmm maybe I'll give yours a run...looks good :{)

Have you given this a try yet? We were gifted 5lbs of plums and trying to figure out what to do with them.

[Richtee]

Have you given this a try yet? We were gifted 5lbs of plums and trying to figure out what to do with them.

Have not yet Moss... but it looks pretty solid to me, honestly. Give it a spin!

[curious aardvark]

plum tree got some weird disease this year.

The windfulls were fine I ate quite afew of those - but the ones that sdtayed on the tree got some weird fungal type disesase.

So for once we don't have afreezer full of plums :-(

That said I've still got a few jars of plum sauce from a few years ago. IT doesn't go off :-)

[PitRow]

Hmmm... I just remembered I have 5 or 6 plums from my aunt's tree in my fridge. This sounds right about perfect for them.

[Mossy]

I like a sauce that has a delayed punch. Something that doesn't overwhelm but enhances the flavor of whatever it is put on. The hard part is finding a sauce that does that but at the end of every bite adds the "Whoa, that was a surprise I wasn't expecting!" Check out this link The mustard sauce does that exactly. The BBQ sauce comes close by itself but combined with the pickled onion, the contrasting flavors does it perfectly.

For me this plum sauce was good, it had presence but it was a flat liner. It was there and that was it. No peaks, no valleys. No taste excitement. Probably be an excellent sauce for someone with a soft mouth.

Would you consider this to have some heat to it? I'm thinking of making a run on this and I'm hoping for some at the end.....

[cowgirl]

Interesting recipe, thanks for the post Fairview!
I have quite a few wild sandhill plums on hand, might give it a try with them.

[Mark R]

Would you consider this to have some heat to it? I'm thinking of making a run on this and I'm hoping for some at the end.....

Ya could always add a little "ghost" powder at the end....

[Mossy]

I doubled the recipe and hot packed the 6 half pint jars. The taste seemed to be a good one for most people. I wanted to ad more for myself but then again , it's not all about me.

[Richtee]

Nice... Plums are in here now. I should get on this.