British

Mint Sauce

Name: Mint Sauce
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1/2 cup mint; 3 tbsp white wine vinegar; 1 tbsp sugar; 1/8 tsp salt

Margaret @margaret_yorkshire

Mint Sauce is British home cooking, eaten at 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.

10 min Easy Vegetarian Vegan Gluten free Dairy free Pescatarian Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1/2 cup mint
3 tbsp white wine vinegar
1 tbsp sugar
1/8 tsp salt

How to cook it

Finely chop the mint leaves.
Warm the vinegar with the sugar in a small saucepan just until the sugar dissolves, then cool slightly.
Stir the warm vinegar into the chopped mint and let sit at least 10 minutes for the flavor to develop.
Season with a pinch of salt and spoon into a small dish to serve alongside roast lamb or a Sunday dinner.

Watch how to cook Mint 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 Mint 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. Mint Sauce carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Mint Sauce
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
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: 10 kcal
Protein: 0 g
Carbs: 2 g
Fat: 0 g
Fiber: 0 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 10 mg
Saturated fat: 0 g

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

When to cook it

Mint Sauce takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.