British

Brown Sauce

Name: Brown Sauce
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1/2 cup dates; 1 cup crushed tomatoes; 1/2 onion; 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar; 2 tbsp brown sugar; 1 tbsp worcestershire sauce; 1/4 tsp ground allspice; 1/4 tsp salt

Simon @simon_roasts

Brown Sauce is British home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment and the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Easy Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1/2 cup dates
1 cup crushed tomatoes
1/2 onion
1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
2 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp ground allspice
1/4 tsp salt

How to cook it

Finely chop the dates and onion.
Combine the dates, onion, crushed tomatoes, vinegar, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, and allspice in a small saucepan.
Simmer over low heat, stirring occasionally, until thickened and the dates have softened, about 20 minutes.
Blend until smooth, season with salt, and cool.
Spoon into a jar and serve alongside a fry-up, bacon sandwich, or sausages.

Watch how to cook Brown Sauce

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A British dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Brown Sauce, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Bacon and Egg Pie
  
  55 min
The cooked vegetable
- Cauliflower Cheese
  
  40 min
What it is eaten with
- British Mashed Potatoes
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Brown Sauce carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Brown Sauce
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Apple Sauce
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 50 kcal
Protein: 0 g
Carbs: 12 g
Fat: 0 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 10 g
Sodium: 120 mg
Saturated fat: 0 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Brown Sauce takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.