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Recipe : ** Basic Brown Sauce

Basic Brown Sauce
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Course:
Sauce

Practical information

  • Prep time
    15 min
  • Cooking
    30 min
  • Ready in
    45 min
  • Difficulty
    Very easy
  • Price
    Very friendly budget
  • Rate:
             
 
Brown sauce may be prepared in advance and keeps well in refrigerator for more than two weeks./Brown sauce made in the "grande maniêre" has always been practically impossible to prepare at home. It requires the previous preparation of stock, then the reducing of the stock to glaze or half-glaze, and then the making of the sauce itself. The housewife solves the problem by dispensing with glaze or half-glaze and using instead strong bouillon, consomme, or bouillon cubes. Canned beef consomme makes excellent brown sauce. The characteristic flavor of consommé fades away into the flavors of the other ingredients, leaving only that much of the taste which is part of the sauce.
 

Categories

Budget:
friendly
Difficulty:
easy recipe
Category:
Vegetable recipes
Tags:
basic, brown, sauce, Beef, canned, taste, two, consumed, tea

Recipe's Ingredients

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  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 med carrots, diced
  • 1 med onion, chopped
  • 2 sprg parsley
  • 1 pch thyme
  • 1 sm bay leaf
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • 1 tablespoon tomato paste
  • ½ teaspoons salt
  • ¼ teaspoons pepper
  • 250 ml dry white wine
  • 400 ml consommé, or roasted veg stock

  • Recipe preparation steps

  • 1
    In small, heavy saucepan, melt butter. Add carrots, onions, parsley, thyme, and bay leaf. Cook over low flame, stirring constantly, until vegetables are golden brown.
  • 2
    Stir in flour and cook until slightly brown.
  • 3
    Stir in wine and consommé. Add tomato paste, salt, and pepper. Bring to boil. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
  • 4
    Strain.
  • Ready !