Meatballs in a sticky plum sauce (TM6)

Plum sauce

• 4 dried pitted prunes
• 500 g fresh dark red plums, stones removed
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 cm piece fresh ginger
• ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp star anise
• ½ tsp Chinese five spice
• 100 g raw sugar
• 60 g apple cider vinegar
• 1 tbsp tamari
• 80 g water
• ½ tsp sea salt

Meatballs

• 1 slice bread, roughly torn
• 3 spring onions/shallots, cut into quarters
• 500 g pork mince
• 1 egg
• ¼ tsp ground black pepper

Plum glaze

• 100 g water
• 70 g tamari
• 1 tbsp Sriracha® sauce
• 20 g rice wine vinegar
• 10 g cornflour

Rice

• 480 g water
• 20 g peanut oil
• 1 tsp Meat stock paste (see Tips)
• 300 g jasmine rice