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Sauce: Spicy Fig Sauce

Source of Recipe

Charlie Trotter


List of Ingredients

2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice, warm
1/2 cup chopped fresh figs
1 star anise
3 whole black peppercorns


Recipe

Cook the sugar in a heavy-bottomed sauté pan over medium heat for 3 minutes, or until golden brown.

Add the orange juice and bring to a boil.
Add the figs, star anise, and peppercorns, bring to a boil, and cook for 3 minutes.


Remove from the heat and strain through a fine-mesh sieve, pushing on the solids to remove as much liquid as possible. If necessary, thin with a little warm water to a sauce consistency.