recipe for a sauce to go on pastry filled with minced meat?

Saute some diced onion & garlic,

add a can of chopped tomatoes,

some liquid (water or red wine),

a teaspoon of sugar ( to counteract the acid in tomato) or some tomato sauce (ketchup) as it is sweet,

salt & pepper,

some herbs (if desired), like basil or oregano.

Simmer from 10 minutes up to an hour (the longer it cooks the more flavour), adding more water if it gets too dry.

Serve it hot or cold.

This is a great sauce to have on stand by.

Add fish, chicken or cooked mince & have on pasta,

Use as a base on pizza.

Add to Mediterranean vegetables (zucchini, marrow, eggplant) for a side dish.

Happy eating.

In the UK minced meat is sweet not savoury - made with raisins and spices. I dont know where you're from so I shall answer this for UK readers!

There are some lovely easy sauces to serve with mince pies:

1 Plain whipped cream - lovely on a hot pie!

2 Brandy cream - as above with brandy (or rum etc) mixed in with cream

3 Custard - how English do you want to get?

4 Rum sauce - make a custard using milk and cornflour instead of custard powder and flavour with plenty of rum.

5 Good old ice cream!

You can also make your mince pies with custard inside - make the custard thick so it won't seep out and put mincemeat on top.

maybe a nice mushroom sauce

take a tiny amount of minced onion (1/4 cup)

tsp minced garlic

1 small can of sliced mushrooms (drained)

2 tablespoons all purpose flour melted in (milk below)

2 cups of milk

salt/pepper

dash of worchestershire sauce (opt)

saute in tiny amount of oil.. the onions and garlic.till onion is clear. stir in mushrooms. when heated through, stirl in the flour/milk mixture.. simmer till bubbly and thick.. add salt and pepper to taste and dash of worchestershire sauce..

this tastes nice on meat pastries, open faced burgers etc..

900ml (1½ pints) Stock

200ml (1/3 pint) Madeira

Place the stock in to a saucepan and reduce slightly.

Add the Madeira.

The stock should be reduced so that when the Madeira is added that it will bring the volume back to 900ml (1½ pints).