Sauces recipes

Looking for a sauce recipe for your next culinary preparation? Fuel your inspiration with Goody community’s recipes. In cooking, there is an incredible amount of sauce recipes! In French gastronomy, a “sauce” is a basic element of cooking. Usually, this culinary preparation is hot, warm or cold. It can accompany a savory or sweet dish or used as a cooking element in a recipe.

 What is a sauce exactly?

The specificity of a sauce is its consistency that can be more or less liquid. However, it can be composed of various different ingredients.

The difficulty in making a sauce is highly variable. Why? Because a sauce can be either a simple juice or an elaborated mixture of different ingredients, so it can be very easy to make or technically difficult to achieve.

Sauces can have liquid, thick, creamy, fluid, unctuous or syrupy consistency. Sauces are an integral part of the national gastronomic heritage in lot of countries! Take France for instance, have you noticed how French Cuisine includes so many varieties os sauces ? Note that, in Haute Cuisine, we can distinguished different sauce family according to the way they are prepared : cold, warm sauces and hot mixes.

Which sauce recipe to choose for your dishes?

Discover many ideas of salty sauces to accompany your vegetable, fish or meat dishes, your salads and even your pasta or your rice. And most importantly, accommodate your salty sauces with the type of dish you are cooking.

• Would you like to prepare a starter based on salad or raw vegetables? Then, pick up a salad dressing made of olive oil, a creamy white sauce, a mayonnaise or aioli sauce.
• For your pasta dishes, choose a smooth tomato sauce, a carbonara, the melting of a Bolognese, or the freshness of an Italian Pesto.
• For meats or fish, prepared in a sauce or stew, using meat stock and fish aroma will create incredible flavors. Try some sauces prepared with white or red wine for slow-cooked, stewed or braised preparation. For your summer barbecue parties, don’t make the mistake to forget the marinade stage. A sweet-and-sour sauce or an emulsified sauce based on butter and lemon like the famous Hollandaise sauce will perfectly enhance the finesse of a fish fillet. On the other hand, a pepper sauce, a Madeira wine sauce or a simple gravy will enhance perfectly your meat dishes.
• No good cauliflower gratin or delicious lasagna without a carefully prepared béchamel sauce!
• For your pilaf rice, try a creamy mustard or mushroom sauce.

• For your sweet preparations, pastries and desserts: butter, cream and milk will certainly be your best allies! Prepare a butter cream to stuff your sponge cakes, a chocolate ganache to cover your birthday cakes or a fresh fruit coulis for your rolled cakes!

Sauces : tips to always succeed !

Last but not least, remember that you can always improve the consistency and stability of your sauce! If it is too thick, loosen it with a liquid. A sauce that is excessively liquid (or has badly coagulated), use a binder such as egg yolk, flour or corn flour. If you find that your sauce is too bland and tasteless, it is always possible to adjust the seasoning with salt or pepper but also spices and herbs.

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