The Flexible Chef
Sauces, Salsas & Dressings
June 22, 2026

A sauce and a salsa are really the same idea in different moods — one simmered slowly, the other thrown together fresh in five minutes flat. This collection of homemade sauces, salsas and dressings brings together cooked sauces, fresh salsas, coulis, and the dressings that finish a dish properly.

Raspberry coulis in a white bowl
Raspberry Coulis - Casa Adora

Inside the Homemade Sauces, Salsas and Dressings Collection

Cooked Sauces

Fresh cherry tomatoes on the vine alongside slow-roasted homemade sunblushed cherry tomatoes on a baking sheet
Fresh from the garden, slow-roasted to perfection — The Flexible Chef

Fresh & Rustic

Homemade sumac dressing in a glass jar, ground sumac berries on a wooden scoop, and fresh sumac berries on the branch
Sumac berries, ground sumac, and homemade sumac dressing — The Flexible Chef

Dressings

Preserves & Condiments

  • Fresh Mint Jelly — Amber, not green. Homemade mint jelly with Demerara sugar, apple cider vinegar, and liquid pectin — the version you can't find in rural Andalucía.

A Note on the Nearly Series

If you're here for the homemade condiment side of things, the Nearly Series is worth a look alongside this collection — recipes that set out to recreate a specific shop-bought condiment and get close enough to make the original redundant. Nearly Coleman's Mint Sauce, Nearly Branston, Nearly Lea & Perrins, and others. Kindred spirit, different angle.

Wonky photos, proper sauces, genuine adventures – The Flexible Chef

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