Meatballs in a sticky plum sauce

Plum sauce

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

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

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