Plum Sauce

This morning I made a lovely plum sauce. Cooked the plums with sauteed ginger, a bit of soy sauce and a bit of black bean sauce. Twenty minutes and a puree later, I was rewarded with such a lovely bright vibrant purple sauce with such pleasing thickish texture.

I've made this sauce before in previous years but the natural vibrancy of the color does not cease to amaze.

It went really well with fresh baked Carolina shrimp for lunch and will go in some fresh shelled beans tomorrow.

I would never think to try plum sauce with shrimp or beans. Cold or hot?

I would never think to try plum sauce with shrimp or beans. Cold or hot?

Today with the shrimp I had the sauce 'room temperature/warm' and served it next to the shrimp. Kind of like a 'dipping sauce'/salsa/condiment for the plate. And the stuff is so delicious that it made everything on the plate happy.

I haven't used it with beans, but I'm always looking for flavor with beans and often add a sauce with lots of flavor (everything from curry pastes to fresh tomato sauce to Chinese black bean sauce) at the very end of cooking the beans. So, I figure I'll try this tomorrow and see how it goes.

[Jenise]

What kind of plums? Wondering if you used a yellow meated plum, for instance, and got that much color from the skin.

What kind of plums? Wondering if you used a yellow meated plum, for instance, and got that much color from the skin.

Yes. I don't know the name of the plum but the meat was yellow and the skin dark purple, but the sauce was a wonderful light bright purple. Amazing how food works!

[Jenise]

What kind of plums? Wondering if you used a yellow meated plum, for instance, and got that much color from the skin.

Yes. I don't know the name of the plum but the meat was yellow and the skin dark purple, but the sauce was a wonderful light bright purple. Amazing how food works!

Interesting! I've always wondered what kind of color you'd get. Cool. And Damson is the name of that type of plum, I believe, though there are probably 42 variations almost identical to it that go by other names.