Name: Mint Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Ingredients: 1/2 cup fresh mint leaves (finely chopped); 1/4 cup boiling water (filtered); 1/4 cup raw apple cider vinegar (packaged in glass); 1 dash sea salt; 1 pinch finely ground pepper

Traditional Mint Sauce

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

Simple and healthy mint sauce to blend and serve with lamb instead of the typical sugary mint jellies with artificial colors and toxic additives.

traditional mint sauce for lamb or mutton in glass jar with bamboo spoon

The primary purpose of the traditional practice of serving mint with lamb is to cut the strong flavor of the meat.

If you’ve ever enjoyed lamb or the even stronger-tasting mutton before, you know that the flavor is quite unique compared with other red meats like beef and buffalo.

The mint is also highly beneficial for assisting digestion of what is a typically heavy meal.

Unfortunately, this traditional, enzyme-rich, and probiotically-active sauce has become modernized into an artificially green, GMO-sweetened mint jelly that is, without exception, best avoided!

My husband’s British Mum served a simple and ancestrally-inspired mint sauce with roast lamb when he was growing up that is far healthier to enjoy and quite easy to make!

Give it a try the next time you enjoy roast or slow-cooked lamb.

I will be serving this sauce as a condiment with grilled rack of lamb for Easter dinner!

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Mint Sauce

Simple and healthy mint sauce to blend and serve with lamb instead of the typical sugary mint jellies with artificial colors and toxic additives.

Course Condiment

Cuisine British

Keyword easy, fast, healthy, sugar free

Prep Time 5 minutes

Total Time 5 minutes

Servings 8

Calories 1 kcal

Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

1/2 cup fresh mint leaves finely chopped
1/4 cup boiling water filtered
1/4 cup raw apple cider vinegar packaged in glass
1 dash sea salt
1 pinch finely ground pepper

Instructions

Rinse the mint leaves and stems and and pat dry with a clean towel.
Remove the mint leaves from the stems and finely chop the leaves by hand. *Do not use a food processor as it doesn't work as well. Compost the unused stems or chop them up and feed to your chickens.
Pour the boiling hot water over the chopped leaves in a small bowl.
Let the leaves steep in the hot water for 20 minutes.
Stir in the cider vinegar, sea salt and finely ground pepper.
Serve immediately if desired. Alternatively, pour the sauce into a jar with a tight-fitting lid and refrigerate overnight to allow the flavors to blend further. Stir before serving.

Nutrition Facts

Mint Sauce

Amount Per Serving (1 tbsp)

Calories 1

% Daily Value*

Potassium 7mg0%

Carbohydrates 0.1g0%

Fiber 0.1g0%

Protein 0.1g0%

Calcium 3mg0%

Iron 0.2mg1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

easy mint sauce in white bowl with bamboo spoon

Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.