About French Food: Mother Sauce Recipes

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French Food French Food Basics Easy Recipes Classic French Dishes From Rebecca Franklin, your Guide to French Food Mother Sauce Recipes Classic French cuisine features five mother sauces that can be enhanced with spices, herbs, meat, vegetables, and more to be made into innumerable other sauces. These foundational sauces have vastly different flavors and textures, making them ideal for hundreds of sauce variations, some famous and some not. These five mother sauce recipes are for bechamel sauce, espagnole sauce, tomato sauce, hollandaise sauce, and veloute sauce. Sometimes mayonnaise and vinaigrette are argued to have been on the original mother sauce list, but this one is the most modern version. See More About:  sauce recipes  mother sauces  Mousseline Sauce Recipe This mousseline sauce recipe has all the smooth, flavorful elements of hollandaise sauce, with the added benefit of a generous addition of rich whipped cream. It's sometimes called sauce Chantilly, reminiscent the favorite dessert sauce, Chantilly cream, because of the airy cream component. Mousseline translates as muslin in French, so classic mousseline sauce needs to be served with other equally delicate textured foods, like fish. See More About:  sauce recipes  egg recipes  dairy recipes Maitre d'hotel Sauce Recipe This maitre d'hotel butter sauce recipe is a hot version of classic maitre d'hotel butter. This herbed butter sauce, kicked up with just a bit of fresh lemon juice, makes a bright accompaniment to mildly flavored fish. Though it is not traditionally served with poultry, this flavored butter sauce adds a scrumptiously rich complexity to roasted chicken and whipped potatoes. Here's to being unconventional in the kitchen! See More About:  sauce recipes  herb recipes  Beurre Blanc Sauce Recipe This classic beurre blanc sauce recipe makes a rich, slightly tangy sauce perfect for seafood or chicken. A traditional sauce in Brittany, sauce beurre blanc, or white butter sauce, has become known outside of the region only in recent decades. See More About:  sauce recipes  wine recipes  French Food Ads Recipes Food Mexican Food Recipes Sauce Easy Sauce Recipe Featured Articles French Cooking Techniques & Tutorials Appetizers/ Hors D'oeuvres Recipes Salad Recipes Seasoning and Sauce Recipes Soup and Stew Recipes Side Dish Recipes   More from About.com Essential Medical Tests for Women For women, certain medical tests and health screenings are recommended on a yearly basis. Learn which screenings are essential for your health, and why. More> Finding the Right Doctor Whether you need a new primary care doctor or a specialist to take care of specific symptoms, you'll want to follow these guidelines to choose the right physician for your medical care. More> This newsletter is written by: Rebecca Franklin French Food Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About French Food newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2011 About.com   Must Reads Baked Apple Brie Recipe Spinach and Green Apple Salad Recipe Chicken in Cider Sauce Recipe Apple Cider Pound Cake Recipe Calvados Sorbet Recipe Advertisement