MASTER FRENCH SAUCES AT HOME.

From foundational stocks to fine dining sauces, master every aspect of sauce making and become a home saucier.

The Only French Sauce Making Course You'll Ever Need—Master Every Technique.

Mastering French Sauces at Home is the ultimate course designed to equip you with the skills and expertise to create stunning French sauces from your own kitchen.

Dive deep into modern stock-making techniques, unlock the secrets of mother sauces, and transform them into professional-grade creations adapted to the home kitchen. Whether you're aiming to nail a classic Hollandaise or wanting to explore new sauce techniques, this comprehensive program guides you through every step, ensuring you can craft dozens of iconic sauces with the confidence of a French saucier.

LEARN MORE THAN 40 TECHNIQUES AND RECIPES.

In French cuisine, sauces are king. Imagine French cooking without its luscious jus, rich sauces, and delicate dressings—it just wouldn’t have that same je ne sais quoi. It’s the sauce that brings each dish to life. In this course, we’ve handpicked over 40 of the finest sauce recipes, each offering a unique taste experience.

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ready to BECOME A HOME SAUCIER ? look no further!

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Not all great sauces require fancy ingredients. Most of the delicious sauces in this course can be made with products readily available at your local market or store, using recipes that are easy to make at home. You’ll be amazed by the flavors you can create with just a few simple ingredients.

NO FANCY INGREDIENTS NEEDED

Mastering French Sauces at Home teaches you techniques and recipes that are evolving in today’s professional kitchens. We revisit the old classics but also discover modern techniques that today's French chefs are experimenting with to create new breeds of mother sauces and derivatives.

blending old and new techniques

Get ready to take your taste buds on a rich and rewarding journey. We have handpicked over 40 sauce recipes to bring you almost every flavor experience French cooking has to offer. Creamy, tangy, slightly sweet, silky, packing a garlic punch, boozy, spicy, sour and fruity; you can taste it all!

Experience new flavor profiles.

WHAT YOU’ll GAIN.

9 Units covering both classic and modern techniques for French sauce-making.

Learn to make over 40 French sauces, many of which have never been taught online before.

Master today’s mother sauces and their derivatives, building a strong foundation for sauce-making.

Discover mayonnaise-based sauces, bistro favorites, compound butters, and restaurant classics, expanding your repertoire.

Comprehensive Sauce Pairing Guide to help you choose the perfect sauce for each dish.

DISCOVER THESE STUNNING SAUCES (and so much more).

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PRAWN BUTTER SAUCE

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TARRAGON VELOUTÉ

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SAUCE CHARCUTIÈRE

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SAUCE MARCHAND DE VIN

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SIGNATURE TOMATE CONCASSÉE

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CLASSIC ROUILLE

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ESCOFFIER TARTARE SAUCE

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SAUCE DIABLE

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BOCUSE STYLE RAVIGOTE

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DISCOVER THE COURSE CURRICULUM.

A summarized guide to French sauces with sections on sauces, stocks, demi-glace, mother sauces, mayonnaise, bistro sauces, restaurant sauces, flavored butters, and sauce pairing.

The most comprehensive and unique sauce course........ anywhere!

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Meet Stéphane

Your cooking instructor.

With more than 8 years of teaching experience at the French Cooking Academy, Stéphane has cultivated extensive culinary knowledge encompassing both practical and theoretical elements of French cuisine. His accessible approach to decoding the complexities of French cuisine has attracted thousands of cooking enthusiasts worldwide, keen to learn under his guidance. Stéphane's teaching style is down-to-earth and engaging, communicating complex techniques in a way that everyone can understand.

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What students are saying...

It’s one of the best courses here, however they are all bloody good. Just need to make often, or I’ll just do it again and again. The more you cook the better you get. Many thanks stephane

Shane Benson
I signed up for the sauce making course with French Cooking Academy and have absolutely loved it so far! The course itself is very informative and educational, providing detailed steps for each recipe. The instructor, Stephane, is both fun and interesting to listen to and very good at explaining things clearly. He is very engaged with the class online and quick to provide feedback or answer questions. I plan to sign up for the other available online courses through French Cooking Academy after I complete the sauce one. If you like French food (and cooking), I HIGHLY recommend French Cooking Academy!!

Dawn Matecha
This is great course and I was blown away by pretty much all the sauces. The fresh tomato sauces, the versatility of the mayonnaise, Noily Pratt and tarragon…. A whole new word of flavour for me. The bar is set a lot higher than the beginner’s course and I enjoy the medium complexity cooking. Thank you once again for producing really incredible content, presenting and documenting French cuisine and culture!

Tim McArdle

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Is MASTER FRENCH SAUCES AT HOME right for me?

This course is best suited for home cooks with some kitchen experience. If you're a beginner, we recommend starting with our foundational course, Get Started with French Cooking. It's a comprehensive program designed for beginners who want to quickly master the basics of French cuisine. With this course, you'll develop the essential skills needed to create delicious French dishes before progressing to more advanced techniques.
Most cooking courses only go as far as teaching the mother sauces and derivatives. Master French Sauces at Home goes far beyond that, teaching the skills to create a variety of sauces like the saucier in a French kitchen. From bistrot favourites like Bercy, Bearnaise, Sauce Diable and Ravigote to restaurant classics like the Bordelaise, Beurre Blanc, Chateaubriand, Duxelle and many more; some of which you will know and others which will be exciting new discoveries. The techniques and range of saucier techniques you will learn in this course will take your cooking to the next level.
This course is completely self-paced, so you can take as long as you like. However, if you follow the lessons consistently week by week, most students complete the course in 3 to 6 months.
If you purchase this course individually, you have lifetime access (meaning as long as the course is live) to all course materials, documents and videos. You can watch the lessons at your own pace and as many times as you want.
At a minimum, you will need a set of saucepans, sieve, wooden spoon, rubber spatula and a whisk to make most of the sauces in this course. But if you want to get serious and equip yourself with the cookware and utensils that a saucier would use in a professional kitchen, there is a full list of equipment included in the course. You can treat this as a reference if you would like to invest in a few extra items for your kitchen.
It is true that you can learn a lot from YouTube and it is a good resource for recipes. But if you are serious about learning how to cook, YouTube has its limitations. What you don’t get from YouTube is curated lessons taught in sequence and structured so you are learning like a professional would. Master French Sauces at Home is more comprehensive than what you can find on YouTube and many of the lessons and recipes have never been taught online as far as we know. It is also packed with original recipes and resources to help guide your transformation from struggling with a basic sauce recipe to becoming a skilled French sauce maker.
Of course! If you find that the course is not for you within 14 days of purchase, just let us know via email and we will give you a full refund, no questions asked.

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