Peach & Plum BBQ sauce

There are so many varieties of BBQ sauce you can whip up, this is just one!  I’ll post other BBQ sauce recipes later. What you choose to make in the end really is a matter of what meat or vege you’re 'BBQ-ing' , personal taste and also what ingredients are available.  This one is perfect for this time of year with lots of stone fruit available - also try my Peach and Chili chutney (October 2017) it is yum. Incidentally a little trivia: did you know that the origin of the word ‘chutney’ is the Hindi word for 'licking' – chatna.  As in finger licking good perhaps! So ….

Ingredients
100g butter
2 lg brown onions, peeled and roughly chopped
8 cloves garlic, peeled and roughly chopped
1kg yellow peaches, peeled, seeded and roughly chopped
750g plums, peeled and seeded
500g tomatoes, peeled and seeded*
4 birds-eye chilies and seeds and stems removed
½ cup malt vinegar
½ cup white vinegar
1 cup brown sugar
½ cup dark rum (liking it already?)
2 Tbsp fish sauce
½ cup Dijon mustard
1 Tbsp salt.
Makes ~ 2L

Method
Heat the butter in a large saucepan and fry onions and garlic until soft (~5 mins). Add remaining ingredients and simmer, covered, for 30 mins until the fruit has softened.
Puree the sauce. Either bottle or if a thicker sauce is preferred return the puree to the saucepan and simmer for an additional 30 mins until desired thickness.
Pour into clean, sterilised jars or ^bottles, label and enjoy!

Chook’s note: *save the tomato seeds for casseroles and the like, the pulp freezes well.
Like all sauces, chutneys and jams, this would make a perfect gift - at any time of year.
^Some of my family save their flip-top ‘Grolsch style’ beer/cider bottles with ceramic stoppers for me – not a hint of course!! but the sauce looks good in these bottles. WARNING if you are using bottles don't make it too thick - sort of goes without saying but .....
If you are a little shy of chili cut the quantity right back, it won't spoil the taste.
I think fish sauce may be just a tiny bit like durian fruit for some people - the smell just about spoils it but the taste is exotic!