Mint Sauce for Lamb 1 Ingredients 2 Directions. Place mint leaves in a small bowl. Stir in water, vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper until sugar is dissolved. 3 Nutrition Facts. Diabetic Exchanges: 1 Free food.
My mother would get fresh mint from the garden, add sugar to draw out the oils from the mint leaves, then add the vinegar. Today many people have never tried the traditional mint sauce, just the 'mint jelly' available in supermarkets.
Blanch the mint leaves for a few seconds in boiling water, then refresh in ice water to stop the cooking process. Drain and squeeze out any excess moisture before finely chopping Add the sugar, water, vinegar and mint stalks to a pan and bring to the boil, seasoning with a pinch of salt. Once boiling, remove from the heat and leave to cool
This is a really rich thick mint sauce, it is quite sweet, so you may want to use white sugar instead or less of it, but this is how Gran used to make it and it is so good with roast or stirred into shanks gravy.