Recipe Types sauces and condiments

Neapolitan Sauce

Neapolitan Sauce

Neapolitan sauce refers to a tomato-based sauce derived from those in Italian cuisine. This page incorporates text from the public domain cookbook The Cook’s Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes by Emily Waters.…

Sauteed Morels

Put this on your next steak. It’s almost like a sauce. Ingredients 1 pound morel mushrooms, thinly sliced Salt Black pepper 2 tsp minced garlic ½ large onion, diced 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil Procedure Sprinkle mushrooms and onion with…

Mushroom Sauce

Mushroom Sauce

Ingredients 1 tablespoon olive oil 15 grams (½ oz) butter 1 onion, peeled and finely chopped 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed 225 grams (8 oz) button mushrooms, wiped and sliced 150 millilitres (about ½ cup) dry white wine 150…

Velouté Sauce

Velouté Sauce

Sauce velouté, takes its name from the adjectival form of the French word velour, meaning velvet. In some older English cookbooks it is called velvet sauce. It is one of the five “Mother Sauces” of French cuisine. Ingredients ¼ cup…

Poutine

Poutine

Poutine is common dish throughout the Quebec, Ontario, and Atlantic regions of Canada, made of French fries, cheese curds, and gravy. This recipe uses pre-canned gravy and fries the potatoes from scratch. Ingredients 1 L vegetable oil for deep frying…

Homemade Tomato Paste

Homemade Tomato Paste

Tomato paste is a basic ingredient used in innumerable dishes in the cuisines of many countries. It is prepared by reducing tomato purée on low heat for several hours. While commercially produced tomato paste is the usual source, it can…

Butterscotch Sauce

Butterscotch Sauce

Ingredients 300 g brown sugar or Muscovado sugar 150 g unsalted butter 1 tsp vanilla essence 1 tbsp black treacle (optional) 300 ml double cream (~48% butterfat) Procedure Combine the sugar, butter, vanilla, and treacle in a saucepan over low…

Vietnamese Caramel Sauce (Nước Maøu)

Vietnamese Caramel Sauce (Nước Maøu)

Vietnamese caramel sauce/syrup is a common ingredient in clay pot recipes. Ingredients ½ cup white granulated sugar ¼ cup water or fish sauce 1 cup water or fish sauce Procedure Combine sugar and the ¼ cup water/fish sauce in a…

Vanilla Coconut Caramel

Vanilla Coconut Caramel

Ingredients 1 cup white granulated sugar 1 cup light corn syrup or cane syrup 1 cup coconut milk 4 tbsp margarine 1 tsp vanilla extract Procedure Boil sugar, corn syrup, margarine, and coconut milk to firm-ball stage (245°F). Remove from…

Tortillas with Spicy Chocolate Sauce

Tortillas with Spicy Chocolate Sauce

Ingredients 5 ounces semisweet chocolate, roughly chopped ¾ cup white granulated sugar, divided 1 pinch salt 3 egg yolks, beaten 1 habanero chilli, seeded and minced 12 wheat flour tortillas, each cut into 10 wedges ½ cup unsalted butter, melted…

Sweet Mole with Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

Sweet Mole with Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

Ingredients 1 whole dried ancho chile ¾ cups (4 ounces) piloncillo 1 clove ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon 4 ounces semi-sweet dark chocolate bar, cut into pieces 2 cups high-quality vanilla bean ice cream Procedure Wash, devein, and remove seeds from…

Sweet Masa Bites with Hazelnut Chocolate Dipping Sauce

Sweet Masa Bites with Hazelnut Chocolate Dipping Sauce

Ingredients Hazelnut chocolate dipping sauce ¼ cup hazelnut-flavored syrup ½ cup chocolate syrup 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract ¼ cup whipping cream, whipped to soft peaks Masa bites ½ cup whole milk 3 egg yolks 20 corn tortillas, torn into…