Ever heard of a barbecue pork ribs recipe with plum sauce?......Never?.....Yet plum sauce is the most amazing ingredient to add to a bbq sauce.
I first discovered plum sauce as a great accompaniment to aromatic crispy duck as opposed to your regular hoi sin sauce and ever since then I’ve tried it in a number of ways and here’s the best
The sauce will be sufficient for about 1.5kg (3.3lb) of ribs
Ingredients:-
175g/6oz plum sauce
1 onion chopped
1 clove garlic crushed
2 tablespoons oil
250ml / 8 fl oz red wine
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
3 teaspoons sugar
3 teaspoons french mustard
3 teaspoons chilli sauce
2 tablespoons tomato purée
Method:-In a saucepan fry the onions and the garlic lightly in the oil for 3-4 minutes until the onion is translucent. Stir in the tomato purée and then follow with the remainder of the ingredients leaving the wine until last. Leave the sauce to simmer gently for 5 minutes in order to boil off the bitterness of the alcohol and then leave to cool and you’re ready to go.
Baste the barbecue sauce on your ribs and gently grill for 15 - 20 minutes.
TIP - When smoking or grilling ribs always cook them as one big rib rather than individual ribs because they stay more succulent and they’re also easier to turn on the barbecue.