White wine sauce
A slightly thickened sauce based on white wine and fish velouté.
Recipe makes one litre.
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Ingredients
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5 |
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white peppercorns |
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2 |
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shallots |
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25 |
g |
butter |
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2 |
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bay leaves |
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500 |
g |
white wine |
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700 |
g |
fish stock |
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250 |
g |
cream |
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50 |
g |
egg yolks |
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lemon juice |
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pepper |
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salt |
Preparation method
- Crush the peppercorns and finely chop the shallot.
- Heat the butter in a large pan.
- Add the peppercorns, bay leaves, and shallots and fry gently.
- Deglaze with white wine and reduce the volume to a quarter.
- Add the fish stock and 150g of cream.
- Reduce to the right consistency.
- Pass through a fine conical sieve.
- Season to taste with lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
- Mix 100g of cream with the egg yolks and thicken the sauce with the liaison. Do not allow it to continue boiling.
Serving suggestions
- Use the sauce as an accompaniment to fish, crustaceans, and shellfish.
- Variation tip: use spices such as saffron, aniseed, and fennel seeds to give the sauce extra accent.
- Variation tip: finish the sauce with chopped herbs such as dill, chervil, tarragon, parsley, or chives.
- Variation tip: mount the sauce with special butters such as carrot butter, basil butter, saffron butter, beurre noisette, algae butter, or citrus butter.
- Variation tip: mount the sauce with the liquid of cooked shellfish and crustaceans.
- Variation tip: mount the sauce with a green herb coulis to create a bright green sauce.