Sauces & Stocks

Sauces in French cuisine date back to the Middle Ages. There were many hundreds of sauces in the culinary repertoire. In cuisine classique (roughly from the end of the 19th century until the advent of nouvelle cuisine in the 1980s), sauces were a major defining characteristic of French cuisine and numbers of them are being forgotten in today’s cuisine.

Pan fried scallops with crème d’échalote (shallot cream sauce)

Seared scallops with crème d’échalote (shallot cream sauce) is a delicious and simple sauce. With a base of butter and cream blended with shallots, tarragon and wine reduction it’s very similar to beurre blanc. The crème d’échalote goes well with any white fish or, as shown in today’s recipe, with...

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May 3, 2019

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Mackerel escabeche

In this tutorial we learn how to make the warm marinade called escabèche and create a beautiful and tasty cold starter: Mackerel escabèche.This particular marinade is used to “cook” fish fillets and meats (although using meat with an escabeche marinade is not as common) using a wine and vinegar based...

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April 21, 2019

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Asparagus sauce Fleurette

In this recipe we will learn how to make a dish called Asperges sauce Fleurette (asparagus with a sauce Fleurette). This is one of the many derivative sauces based on a the mother sauce Hollandaise with the addition of cream to provide a silkier texture. In contrast to the Hollandaise,...

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April 18, 2019

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Tagliatelle sauce foie gras

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In this video tutorial you will learn how to make an authentic sauce foie gras (foie gras sauce). This delicious sauce is built on a base of reduced brown chicken stock and flavored with port and Madeira wine along with cream. Once the sauce base has been reduced, foie gras...

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April 12, 2019

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How to make Beurre Blanc ( butter sauce)

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The Beurre Blanc is an emulsion of half-salted butter and a reduction of white wine, vinegar and shallots. The white wine and vinegar are reduced by half with the gray shallots, then the butter is gently incorporated and whipped over very low heat (do not exceed the temperature of 65...

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September 27, 2018

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How to make Espagnole sauce

Cooking Time: 2h30 mn

French cuisine

The Espagnole sauce is one of the 5 french mother sauces that exist and has been around for centuries. knowing how to make that sauce is a must when you are learning French cooking. This sauce has strong beef and tomatoes flavours with a hint of bacon in the background....

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June 10, 2018

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Escoffier Method Brown Stock

Escoffier brown stock or (estouffade) is the recipe I am trying today. This brown cooking stock is realised in 2 stages. Where the beef bones are first cooked to create a bone broth. and the broth is then used to moisten and cook fresh pieces of meat creating the final...

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June 3, 2018

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List of Classic French Dressings

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French dressings, or vinaigrette sauces (as we call them in France), are a basic condiment needed to prepare French salads. The sauces are made with a simple combination of salt, pepper, vinegar and an oil. Sometimes fresh shallots, garlic, herbs, or honey is added. Instructions are always as follows: put...

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May 16, 2017

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Quick & Easy Brown Chicken Stock

Cooking Time: 60

Sauces & Stocks

French cuisine

A quick and easy brown chicken stock recipe that you can use for multiple French poultry base dishes sauce and stews. this technique uses the classic French technique where water is replace with off the shelf brown stock to supercharge the flavor and reduce the cooking time to 30 minutes

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May 13, 2017

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Aromatic Clear Chicken Stock From Scratch

Cooking Time: 65

Sauces & Stocks

French cuisine

Chicken stocks are the base of many soups and preparation in French cooking and they are easy and quick to realize. there are different types types of chicken stocks mainly the clear stock and the brown stock for which I have a recipe too. using homemade cooking stocks is a...

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May 13, 2017

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How to make a mayonnaise sauce

Cooking Time: 10

Sauces & Stocks

French cuisine

How to make a mayonnaise sauce: a delicious sauce that goes perfectly with cold meats, sandwiches, boiled eggs, slaw and more. the french mayonnaise can be use as a base for other sauces like the cocktail sauce and all kind of other flavored mayonnaise such as the Aioli style mayonnaise....

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May 4, 2017

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Bechamel Sauce

Cooking Time: 25

Sauces & Stocks

French cuisine

This Bechamel sauce (white sauce) is perfect for all kind of everyday use for things like pasta and vegetable bakes, lasagnas, moussaka, and even more complex things recipe like souffle. The Bechamel Sauce which is commonly known as “white Sauce”, is one of the 5 French Mother sauces that every...

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February 22, 2017

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How to make a Bearnaise sauce

Cooking Time: 15

Sauces & Stocks

French cuisine

Bearnaise sauce is a sauce made of clarified butter emulsified in egg yolks and white wine vinegar and flavored with herbs. It is considered to be a “child” of the mother Hollandaise sauce, one of the five mother sauces in the French haute cuisine repertoire. The difference is only in...

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February 20, 2017

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