How to Make Rhubarb Sauce

Eric: Here we go. Hey everyone! Today in Gardenfork we are going to talking about rhubarb some more. And I love rhubarb. And last night we were invited over to the camp for dinner; Bill and Else's house. And I didn't really have time to make like a dessert, I wanted to make like a Rhubarb Crisp or something, because the rhubarb is just sprouted, like in one week its grown like crazy. So I thought I will just make a simple rhubarb sauce and we will have it over some ice cream. So we got some fancy ice cream, and then I just collected some rhubarb, and I made a little sauce. I thought it would be a good thing to show everyone, because you don't always have time to make a big dessert, and the beauty of rhubarb sauce is that, when it's leftover, you can have it over oat meal, or over pancakes, or waffles, and stuff like that. So this is super simple, and it's another great thing to do with rhubarb. So I am going to show you. Alright. Let's harvest. And we have our Felco sharpened, because we went to the Shelley Nursery and I learned how to sharpen hand tools, and we are going to have an episode about that. So if you remember from last year about harvesting rhubarb, you just want to pull it from the base, you don't need to cut it, you just grab as low as you can and pull the stem out. So look at that, it looks great. So you just reach down and give it a pull, and it makes a little noise. Well, that one didn't work right. There we go. A little tug and the bottom comes out, and you just peel that off. Just pull it out like that. It seems like the stereotype of rhubarb is that its always red, but we have green rhubarb in here and red. I think it's red earlier in the year. Get out of my rhubarb. He will do this all day. Alright. So all we are going to do is take our rhubarb and cut it up into like one inch lengths. I am just going to take them and put them in a saucepan. You don't need to add any water to this. You will be surprised the amount of liquid that comes out of this rhubarb. I don't like a lot of sugar, especially in rhubarb, but a lot of recipes call for way too much sugar, I think so. I am just going to start with like a third cup of sugar in this, and then after we make the sauce, you can throttle up or down the sugar as much as you want. We have some homemade yogurt from yesterday that we are going to mix this with, and I think that will be really cool. And it's from the garden, you know where this is from, it's not from halfway across the world, this is from your yard or your neighbor's yard. Rhubarb is really easy to grow. Take a piece of earth, dump a bunch of cow manure in it, and plant them, and they will just keep growing. Every year, before they come up, just do a top dressing of some more manure, and keep them happy. I am going to add a little bit of orange zest to it and this a little zester tool. This is like $3 at the grocery store, but you just take this, and you just pull it across like that. You could also add lemon zest to this, or you could add some lemon juice or orange juice for that matter, but just a little bit of citrus goes really well with rhubarb. So I have got one tablespoon of corn starch. I am going to put it in here, and I am going to put one tablespoon of water in here, and we are going to mix this up. We are going to take the corn starch and water mixture and pour that into our sauce. So the sauce is nicely cooked down now. It's really just a matter of personal preference about how chunky you want it. Alright, so here we go. Nice, huh? Female Speaker: Yeah. Eric: So it smells great. A little bit of that orange zest is really nice. Ice cream and rhubarb, that's amazing. That's really amazing. That's really good. So have got a very simple recipe, waffles, pancakes, even I was just thinking, pork, if you have like a roast pork and you want a little sweet sauce with it, that would be really good. Female Speaker: Yeah, good idea. Eric: Kind of like you have pork chops and apple sauce, you could have pork chops and rhubarb sauce. Oh, that's bad, that's just bad. Alright. Thanks for watching. I am going to stop. Okay, stop, stop, stop, that's enough.