Port Wine Sauce
This sauce is perfect for serving with kangaroo and other game meats.
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 3 whole shallots, finely sliced
- 150g button mushrooms, finely sliced
- 50g blackcurrents or cranberries
- 1 cup red port (aged if possible)
- 1 large piece of orange zest
- 1¼ cups beef stock
- Salt and black cracked pepper
Method
This sauce is perfect for serving with kangaroo and other game meats.
Melt
half the butter in a small saucepan. Add the shallots and sweat until
soft, then add the mushrooms and cook gently for 3 minutes. Pour in the
port, add the orange zest and reduce by half.
Add the
stock and simmer for 25min, skimming the surface if necessary. Pass the
sauce through a strainer, add the remaining butter, gently stir to
combine and season to taste with salt and pepper.
Optional;
you can use approx 50g of blueberries, blackberries or cranberries and
add in with the mushrooms. Continue recipe as above.
BON APPETITE!