What base to use for sauce?

[Omri]

I'm trying to make some homemade sauces, and looking for a good base.
Some sauces I've seen are using carrots, but I was thinking more of eggplants or artichokes.
Am I making any sense? I'm also not really sure how to prepare the base.
Should I bake the vegetables? fry them? grill them, or what?
I'm looking for a tasty creamy texture.

 

[bentalphanerd]

eggplant. Id peel it, cut it up & throw it in the blender. add a little water to make it smooth. Push it through a sieve.

 

[stillmanz]

through a sieve nice.. Bent of many layers.
you could lose some body and keep some flavour that way. good advice.

 

[stillmanz]

what do youlike in a sauce Omri dry americanstyle ie (louisiana etc) or sweet asian/ carribean or the idea of fusion ( a combination of many flavours etc)
If you like sweet try any fruit seriously they will all work (also they tend to have excellent ph for making ie bottling) theres a csiro link do a google it shows ph of various veg and fruit give you an idea of what works well in the "canning process". Keep me posted am curious if you can get a nice tasting eggplant pourable sauce, if you can I reckon you you could make a dollar.

 

[woody]

Woody used a great veg as a base for one of his limited edition sauces so he might have some good ideas. I'd love to say what kind of vegetable it was but I'll leave it to Woody if he wants to share it. It was green by the way

It was runner beans Sold out and people were asking for more, i will increase production of that one in the summer.
I too am trying a garden pea version, i'll send you a taster RB.

 

[rainbowberry]

Thank you Woody

I need your sauce in litre bottles, they just go down too quick. It just shows that so many things go in sauces, who'd have thought runner beans You'd think it would resemble something like Shreks swamp, it didn't a tall, it worked brilliantly.

 

[POTAWIE]

Hiding veggies in hotsauce, I don't know if that should be a crime or if its ingenious.

 

[chilehunter]

potawie - hiding veggies ? chiles are veggies so are tomatoes,carrots,onions,garlic, & many more that are used in hot sauces. so really theres no hiding veggies in a hot suace

BUT! I'll admit using beans is the 1st time I've heard of them being used for a hot sauce.strange.

 

[POTAWIE]

Yes, I should have said green veggies or strange veggies.

 

[stillmanz]

green veg is a bit outthere I'm very curious... thats fusion food my friend well done.

 

[rainbowberry]

potawie - hiding veggies ? chiles are veggies so are tomatoes,carrots,onions,garlic.

Oh I learn't something new then, I always thought chillis were fruit.

 

[chilehunter]

I always thought & was told that chiles & tomatoes are veggies, I know some people consider tomatoes fruits, I dont know the real answer - fruit or veggie.
but you're really not trying to hide veggies in hot sauce, but beans! I've never heard of them being used for hot sauce, just strange to me. but if you like green beans then why not in some hot sauce, thats all that matters is if you like. I'd try it if someone had some but I doubt I'd buy some unless theres a shitload of rave reviews about the sauce.

 

[bentalphanerd]

My 8 year old is always telling me that if it has seeds on the inside, its a fruit. That would make pumpkin a fruit too, but he says that what he got taught. I don't think it matters. I just remember that banana is the worlds biggest herb. That'll be important to know one day.

 

[Omri]

In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds.

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[chilehunter]

well if you want to go my that theory (seeds inside is a fruit) then beans,peas,squash,zucchini,cucumbers are also fruits

I figure if it has alot of sugar or citric acid in them then its a fruit - except tomatoes

I just remember that banana is the worlds biggest herb

I gotta hear this, please explain why its a herb ?

 

[bentalphanerd]

something to do with it not having a wooded trunk. its more like layers of leaves.

 

[Omri]

something to do with it not having a wooded trunk. its more like layers of leaves.

Banana plants are some of the largest herbs known to us.
The banana fruits are still fruits, as they contain seeds.

 

[bentalphanerd]

wouldn't the whole cluster be called a fruit as it all comes from a single flower?

 

[Intensity Academy]

Eggplant sounds really good. I'm experimenting with Beet Hot Sauces...sounds strange, I know!!!

 

[rainbowberry]

My 8 year old is always telling me that if it has seeds on the inside, its a fruit. That would make pumpkin a fruit too, but he says that what he got taught.

That's the theory I was going by.

well if you want to go my that theory (seeds inside is a fruit) then beans,peas,squash,zucchini,cucumbers are also fruits

I thought cucumber was classed as a fruit too, even though I don't think of it being one.

 

[chilehunter]

I made a minor mistake I typed "my" instead of "by" = go by that theory. not that it really matters now, but anyways.

I dont get into the technical classification of plants & I dont really care! I will always consider what is a fruit is something that has alot of sugar content or citric acid in them. & tomatoes are a vegetable