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Classic Velouté Sauce

Velouté Sauce Velouté is a light stock thickened with a blonde roux. It’s the quietest of the five mother sauces — no cheese, no tomato, no egg yolks, just stock and roux working together. And it’s the base for some of the most useful sauces in Western cooking: chicken supreme, mushroom sauce, and the gravy

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Easy French Espagnole sauce

Espagnole Sauce Espagnole is a brown stock thickened with a brown roux, plus tomato, mirepoix, and a bouquet garni. It’s the darkest and most complex of the five mother sauces — the one that takes the longest, tastes the deepest, and becomes the most things. It’s the base for demi-glace, and demi-glace is the base

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Easy and authentic Hollandaise Sauce

Hollandaise Sauce Hollandaise is the fifth mother sauce, and the only one that isn’t built on a roux or a stock. It’s an emulsion of egg yolks and melted butter, held together by whisking and gentle heat. That’s what makes it different from the other four — and that’s why it breaks. Hollandaise doesn’t fail

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Bolognese Sauce With Ground Beef

Bolognese Sauce With Ground Beef Bolognese sauce is an iconic Italian pasta sauce, but it holds a unique place in the world of French cuisine as well. It’s a classic derivative of the revered “mother sauces” — specifically, a rich, meaty variation built on the Tomato mother sauce foundation. In French culinary tradition, the five

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