SWEET, FRUITEE, & SPICY IDEAS FOR GRAVYS, SAUCES & FILLINGS.

This is a Idea guide for the mad food scientist that is lurking in you.  :)     Gravy, sauces, filling what ever you call it their wonderfully easy and you can do so much with them.  Including inventing new fillings for pies. DIP anyone?  How about a quick tasty dessert?  Have a veggie dish that needs to be brightened up? Tried of sweet about about fell the burn with Jalapenos.   Here are some more recipe with using different fruits, berries and hot peppers for those who like the burn.

Let's the ideas start coming. :)

This is the basic recipe for all fruits and berries and experiments.
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INGREDIENTS
2 Tablespoons of butter. 
3 to 4 table spoons of flour
1 cup of fresh squeezed fruit juice or purred berries.  
Table spoons of water as needed.
Add sugar using your own judgement if the fresh squeeze juice is tart. 

Melt the butter in a pan on low. Watch it so it does not burn. Towards the end  I turn off the burner, lift the pan off the burner and swish it around.  Now add a tablespoon of flour at a time to the melted butter and mix in until it looks like little balls of dough.  

Do not heat up the fruit juice.  The pan will be hot enough to heat it up.   

Turn the pan with the butter dough to med high, and pour in a little bit of the juice.  Whisk away.  Now it's going to look like it's not mixing together, but keep whisking until the mixture has the consistency of mash potatoes.  Yeah I know it sound weird.  But is soon as it looks like mash potatoes add your next pour of liquid.   Watch out it may spit and spatter.  
Whisk again and keep whisking until it look smooth and mash potato like. 

Now like I said above you are in control of the thickness of the gravy.   If you like super thick gravy stop.  If you like your gravy a little bit runnier add the water a tablespoon at a time this will not affect the flavor.

Oh no I add just a little bit too much water and it's too runny.  FIX:  Mix in a tablespoon of flour at a time until thickened.  ;)
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1.  POMEGRANATE.
     Juice.

2.  BERRIES: Blue berries, black berries, strawberries....etc.
      Mash or Puree. 

3.  GRAPES 
      Juice

4.  WATERMELON.
      Puree

5.  MANGO
     Puree

6.  APPLES
     Puree

7.  CITRUS  Lime, orange, tangerine and lemon.
     Puree and strain juice out from pulp.

8.  PINEAPPLE 
      Juice

How about the HOT SIDE?  Like heat.

Try   Jalapeno, Serrano.... Habanero?  

For hot peppers I recommend you puree one pepper per 1 cup of water.   If you want to start a fire you can add more pepper to your 1 cup of water.  
  
Veggies any one?    All you have to do is puree it and try it.    :)    

TA TA FOR NOW.