Holiday Fruit Sauce for Meat
"This can be used to garnish holiday turkey, pork chops, or any other meat that would benefit from a colorful, tasty sauce. The sauce is intended to make plain-looking food more elegant and to boost the flavor to make the dish a special one. As you can see, it's simple and fast."
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
1 1/2 cups
ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 1 teaspoon chicken bouillon granule
- 1⁄2 cup dried apricot, chopped
- 1⁄2 cup golden raisin
- 1⁄2 cup dried cranberries
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon butter
directions
- In a saucepan, bring the water and bouillon to a boil over high heat and dissolve all the granules, stirring, (NOTE: you can use 1 bouillon cube if you don't have the bouillon granules/powder).
- Once the bouillon is dissolved and the water is boiling, stir in the chopped apricots, the raisins and the cranberries. Reduce the water by about half through the boiling process and then lower the heat down to the low setting.
- Add the maple syrup and the vinegar, stirring.
- Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the butter until it melts.
- Serve hot, over the cooked meat of your choice.
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<p>I am a retired State Park Resort Manager/Ranger. <br /><br />Anyway, as to my years in the State Park System (retired now), I was responsible for 4 restaurants/dining rooms on my park and my boss at Central Headquarters said I should spend less time in my kitchens and more time tending to my park budget. I spent 25 years in those kitchens and worked with some really great chefs over those years, (and some really awful ones too!) <br /><br />I spent THOUSANDS of hours on every inch of that park and adjacent state forest (60,000 acres) and sometimes I miss it. But mostly I miss being in that big beautiful resort lodge kitchen. I miss my little marina restaurant down on the Ohio River too. I served the best Reuben Sandwich (my own recipe -- posted on 'Zaar as The Shawnee Marina Reuben Sandwich) in both the State of Ohio and the Commonwealth of Kentucky down there and sold it for $2.95. Best deal on the river! <br /><br />They (friends and neighbors) call my kitchen The Ospidillo Cafe. Don't ask me why because it takes about a case of beer, time-wise, to explain the name. Anyway, it's a small galley kitchen with a Mexican motif (until my wife catches me gone for a week or so), and it's a very BUSY kitchen as well. We cook at all hours of the day and night. You are as likely to see one of my neighbors munching down over here as you are my wife or daughter. I do a lot of recipe experimentation and development. It has become a really fun post-retirement hobby -- and, yes, I wash my own dishes. <br /><br />Also, I'm the Cincinnati Chili Emperor around here, or so they say. (Check out my Ospidillo Cafe Cincinnati Chili recipe). SKYLINE CHILI is one of my four favorite chilis, and the others include: Gold Star Chili, Empress Chili and, my VERY favorite, Dixie. All in and around Cincinnati. Great stuff for cheap and I make it at home too. <br /><br />I also collect menus and keep them in my kitchen -- I have about a hundred or so. People go through them and when they see something that they want, I make it the next day. That presents some real challenges! <br /><br />http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/parks/shawnee.htm</p>
