Homemade Balsamic Reduction Sauce

Name: Homemade Balsamic Reduction Sauce
Total time: 900 s
Yield: 3 - 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 cup balsamic vinegar; 1/4 cup brown sugar

Bianca Mwale @bianca_eatsy

Zomba, Malawi

I was dying for a balsamic and honey glaze when I made this. I had to trade sweetener honey with brown sugar and it worked just as wonderful.

For the first time ever, today my decision to follow a couple of budget chefs to keep me from stocking my pantry with sauces that can easily substitute each other or make another ingredient with just the addition of a few pantry favorites has finally paid off.

I was dying for a balsamic and honey glaze when I made this. I had to trade sweetener honey with brown sugar and it worked just as wonderful.

Bianca Mwale @bianca_eatsy

Zomba, Malawi

I was dying for a balsamic and honey glaze when I made this. I had to trade sweetener honey with brown sugar and it worked just as wonderful.

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Ingredients

10 - 15 minutes

3 - 4 servings

1 cupbalsamic vinegar
1/4 cupbrown sugar

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Steps

10 - 15 minutes

1

Gather ingredients. In a small saucepan, stir the balsamic vinegar and brown sugar until the sugar completely dissolves
2

Heat the mixture up to a boil then simmer over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally to avoid burning, until the sauce cooks down to about half
3

Check for the changes in bubbling. Sauce is ready if bubbles are steadier without immediately popping like before and are significantly reduced (less bubbles appear than before). But the most reliable technique is checking the consistency and keeping in mind that the sauce continues to thicken off the heat as it cools down, so you might as well take off the heat the moment it halves down as you can simply simmer it again to make it thicker later
4

Take of heat and allow to cool before drizzling or refrigerating
5

Drizzle on vegetables like brusel sprouts, or use as sauce in chicken/beef stir fries and many more. Store leftover tightly closed in the fridge for a maximum of 2weeks

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