
Plantain and Cabbage Coconut Sauce
Scotch bonnet peppers make this a very hot chilli sauce, even with coconut milk and yogurt. Cooked ripe plantain is blended with raw cabbage, tomato and red wine vinegar to give it body and a fresh tang.
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Scotch bonnet peppers make this a very hot chilli sauce, even with coconut milk and yogurt. Cooked ripe plantain is blended with raw cabbage, tomato and red wine vinegar to give it body and a fresh tang.

Cooked artichoke hearts are blended with dry sherry, lemon juice and paprika, then folded into hand-mashed boiled potato. The sherry is added uncooked, giving this smooth sauce a direct wine flavour.

Fully cooked black-eyed peas are puréed with fresh lemon juice, parsley and a little red wine vinegar. Roasted potato, mashed separately by hand, is folded in to make a thick spoonable sauce.

Dijon mustard, chives, parsley and raw garlic season a pourable black-eyed pea sauce. The beans are simmered from dry, blended with water and vinegar, then combined with hand-mashed roasted potato.

Bright raspberry jam sauce with kirsch.

A raspberry and Jamaica-rum syrup for soaking savarins.

A thick roasted aubergine sauce with reduced tomato, squeezed cucumber, soy sauce and fresh ginger. Spoon it alongside grilled vegetables or rice; makes about 350 g, eight small servings.

Roasted aubergine and a smaller amount of browned cabbage are puréed with raw shallot and ground chilli. White and red wine vinegars give the sauce a distinctly tart finish.

Browned cabbage and soft roasted aubergine make the base of this chilli sauce. Fresh spring onion is blended in after cooling, and water is added gradually to keep the sauce as thick or loose as needed.

Ground coriander and a generous amount of fresh lemon juice season roasted aubergine and cabbage. Parsley and spring onion are blended in after the vegetables cool, producing an earthy, lemony sauce.

Cultivated watercress, parsley and thyme are blended with roasted celeriac into a loose green sauce. A generous amount of raw shallot supplies a sharp onion flavour, balanced by red wine vinegar.

Roasted vegetables are blended with thick crème fraîche, Dijon mustard and measured citrus. The result is a cool, spoonable sauce for vegetables or cooked dishes.

Roasted button mushrooms are blended with yogurt, red wine vinegar, black pepper and rosemary. Hand-mashed boiled potato thickens the mixture into a creamy sauce without being worked through the blender.

Lightly roasted green peas are blended with Dijon mustard, raw tomato, garlic and parsley. Boiled potato is mashed by hand and folded through the mixture to thicken this tangy vegetable sauce.

Hand-mashed roasted potato thickens a purée of raw button mushrooms, parsley and garlic. Freshly squeezed lemon juice and red wine vinegar give this pale sauce a pronounced tang.

Tender raw green peas are blended with yogurt, parsley and chives for a bright green sauce. Roasted potato is mashed separately and folded through by hand, with red wine vinegar providing a tart edge.

Roasted red peppers and aubergine blended into a thick sauce with shallot, parsley, two vinegars and a little yogurt. Makes about 700 g, six generous sauce portions.

Roasted red pepper, tomato and shallot make a concentrated vegetable purée. Stir it into strained yogurt for a thick orange sauce flecked with parsley.

A finely chopped parsley and basil sauce with capers, anchovy, a little onion and garlic, olive oil and lemon.

A warm butter sauce with a little vinegar and egg yolk, intended for boiled vegetables.

A warm finely chopped caper and olive sauce with softened onion, butter and an anchovy finish.

A pourable sauce of tuna, capers, anchovies and hard-boiled yolks, brightened with lemon.

A deeply coloured grape syrup slowly reduced until rich and pourable.

Apple, horseradish and orange marmalade sauce.