What should I make for dinner tonight? This might just be the number one question that we ask ourselves almost daily over here.
Then you have come to the right place, we have rounded up 21 sour plum recipes that we have shared over the years.
Plus, there is such a variety of flavours in these recipes, so you are sure to find something for you. Most of these recipes are quick and easy ones made especially for busy weeknights.
21 Sour Plum Recipes
Sour Plum Brown Butter Upside Down Cake
A Plum Cake You’ll Want to Make Time and Again
strawberry sour plum pie
Persian Green Plum Stew (Khoresh Gojeh Sabz)
Sour Plum Drink (Suan Mei Tang – 酸梅汤)
Tkemali (Sour Plum Sauce)
California Sour Plum Crumble
Green Tkemali (Georgian Sour Plum Sauce)
Kylie Kwong’s pavlova with sweet and sour plums
What are sour plums used for?
According to Darra Goldstein’s The Georgian Feast, the plums are made into fruit leather which is used to sour dishes or made into Tkemali, a sauce as ubiquitous as ketchup in Georgian cuisine. Use it to accompany grilled or roasted meats, stir into beans or use as an accompaniment to vegetables.
How do you eat sour plums?
Tangy and refreshing, these tart and crunchy plums are best eaten fresh, sometimes with a pinch of salt. For some, the sour flavor is a refreshing way to cleanse the palate after a heavy meal. For others, they can be eaten anytime. I like them alone or dipped in a bit of salt.
Are sour plums edible?
Young, sour plums have traditionally been enjoyed in the Middle East and Asia, where they may be eaten raw or preserved. They’re known as goje sabz in Iran, jarareng in Lebanon, erik in Turkey, mei in China, and ume in Japan. Although these are not all the same variety of plum, they may be used in similar ways.
What to do with plums that are not sweet?
If you have un-ripened plums that are not sweet yet, there are a few ways you can use them. You can put them in a glass jar and pickle them to make plum pickles. Or you can cut them up into small slices and soak them in pepper sauce and salt for an easy chow chow dish.
What does sour plum taste like?
Physical characteristics. Umeboshi are usually round and vary from smooth to very wrinkled. Usually they taste salty, and are extremely sour due to high citric acid content, but sweeter versions exist as well.
Why do plums get sour when cooked?
Colleen suspects it’s to do with the breakdown of sugars that give that bitter taste. When you’re cooking the sugars at high heat you get non-enzymatic browning, which occurs either through caramelisation or something called the Maillard reaction. That is an interaction of proteins and sugars.
How do you sweeten plums?
To make them ripen even more quickly, place them in a brown paper bag with a banana or an apple and close the top. Doing so produces a compound called ethylene that enhances the ripening process. Unripe plums will fully ripen after about two weeks.
What is sour plum?
Definition of sour plum
1 : emu apple. 2 : any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Ximenia especially : a tall much-branched often spiny shrub (X. caffra) of the northern Transvaal with greenish flowers in axillary clusters followed by orange-red to scarlet fruits.
What are the most sour plums?
Umeboshi Sour Plum
Umeboshi come from the Ume fruit, which is a close cousin to plums or apricots. They are preserved through salting, which gives this treat an extremely sour and intense flavor.
What are sour plums called?
Are any plums poisonous?
The seeds (also known as stones, pits, or kernels) of stone fruits like apricots, cherries, plums, and peaches do contain a compound called amygdalin, which breaks down into hydrogen cyanide when ingested. And, yes, hydrogen cyanide is definitely a poison.
Can I eat plums from my tree?
Once your little plums ripen, in midsummer, they’ll be edible, though probably fairly sour, depending on the particular cultivar you have. It’s good that your tree is loaded, because you’ll be in competition with the local birds, which also like them.