plum sauce
2
1.6
- noun
- /plʌm sɔs/
:
salsa de ciruela
- Serve spring rolls with plum sauce for dipping.
- plum sauce with ginger
- sweet-and-sour plum sauce
Examples
-
The chef drizzled plum sauce over the grilled duck to enhance its taste.
-
Can I get extra plum sauce?
-
It's a sour plum sauce served with meat, poultry and potato dishes from the country.
-
He would bring me the dish of plum sauce I'd forgotten, and I would thank him, going out the swinging door.
Fiction book (1990) -
The turkey and the goose will be accompanied by the following: plum sauce, bread sauce, cranberry sauce, cloudberry sauce, potatoes, carrots and spinach.
-
Dunk skewered chicken in warm plum sauce for added flavor.
Synonyms
3
2.2
A thick sweet and sour sauce served with Chinese food
A sweet sauce made from peaches used to add flavor to food
A sweet sauce made from apricots used with meat or desserts
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sweet and tangy sauce made from plums' is directly derivable from combining 'plum' (the fruit) with 'sauce' (a condiment); noun-noun compounding for food items typically signals the ingredient used. This compositional, cross-linguistically common pattern makes the MWE immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Plum sauce comes from Chinese cooking, where cooks mashed sweet plum fruit with sugar, vinegar and spices to make a thick sauce for roast duck and fried snacks. That's why the name means 'a sweet and tangy sauce' used as a dip or with Chinese dishes.