Questions tagged [sauce]

A separately-prepared cooking liquid or condiment served with other food.

Broadly, a sauce might be defined as almost any liquid food. Please use this tag only for those requiring preparation and generally served or mixed with a different, solid food.

Avoid using the tag for any of the following:

  • Soups, stocks, and broths; use the , , or tag instead, even if it is intended to be used as a sauce.
  • Well-known preparations generally referred to by other names (e.g. , ).
  • Jams, jellies, and other preserves (use or a similar corresponding tag).

Please do consider adding a sub-tag if referring to a well-defined sauce or category of sauce - for example, or .

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What are the fundamental sauces that every cook should know how to make?

I'd like to learn to make some sauces and I'm looking for the most common, "standard" sauces that professional cooks all learn how to make in culinary school. What sauces form the basic "building blocks" of cooking and how are they prepared?
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Does adding water back into an over-reduced sauce lose flavour?

If I over-reduce a sauce (e.g. a tomato sauce for pasta), so that it is too thick, I'll sometimes add some water in to thin it out again & bring it back to the desired consistency. Would the resulting sauce be the same in the end as if I reduced it…
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In general, would I need to season a meat when making a sauce?

I'm making a Romesco Sauce. I wonder, in general, would I need to season the meat that goes with the sauce? or do I leave the meat plain (just cook thoroughly without even salt and pepper). The above image is the grilled chicken that the Romesco…
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What to do with 10 liters Heinz BBQ sauce?

I just got a 10 liter bucket of Heinz BBQ sauce for free, and the expiration date is next week. Any ideas how to properly utilize it?
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Device to install on a bottle to only spill drops

When heating up cold food in microwave it oftens comes out pretty dry, and I like juicy food. So I add 1 or 2 teaspoons of olive oil on the food before heating it. I'd be easier though if I had some kind of small device
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What is pizza sauce?

I am making a dip that requires 'pizza sauce'. The store doesn't sell anything called 'pizza sauce' that I could find. Instead, I got plain tomato sauce. What do I need to add to it to make it 'pizza sauce'?
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What Side Dish Sauces Should Be Promoted To Their Own Sauce?

We all know about the typical main dish sauces: gravies, cream sauces, marinara, vinaigrettes, bbq sauces, etc... However, I find that many side dishes have their own great sauces that you don't typically find as an entree sauce. For…
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How to develop a butterscotch flavor in a savory sauce

There's a restaurant near my house that serves a thin sauce with their steaks that tastes almost like a spicy, savory butterscotch sauce. The chef won't tell me anything about what's in his secret sauce. Has anyone else had a savory dish that…
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What would this sauce be called?

I have a nice sized chuck roast in the sous-vide circulator, I can see that there are some great looking juices accumulating in the bag. I want to make a sauce out of those juices with butter, garlic, herbs and wine reduction. There is a name for…
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Tomato sauce from garden different types and ripeness okay?

I grew mortgage lifter, pink fang and cherry tomatoes... first garden in 35 years. Ended up with bad septoria which led to bite, been tough keeping these 12 foot plants going in cheap cages. 20% have blossom end rot. A few have a little white mold…
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What is a Sauce course?

According to the article on Full course dinners on Wikipedia, the third course of a five course meal is "Sauce": Entrée Main Course Sauce Dessert Cigars I'm having trouble finding what exactly this is and how one makes a sauce into a course.…
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Failed pan sauce didn't thicken and tasted far too much of wine

I'm teaching myself to cook and I just tried to make a pan sauce to go with my turkey breast. This failed pretty much completely and I decided to abandon the sauce and eat the turkey breast without it. I used a stainless steel pan, added some canola…
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Why did my hollandaise sauce break when adding spices?

I just made my very first attempt at a hollandaise sauce, which of course broke. The funny thing is, the sauce was perfect, and was finished. However, it was really, REALLY bland. So, to add some flavor as I've seen several other chefs demonstrate,…
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Broken pasta sauce

The other night I was experimenting with pasta. I had a few cloves of choped garlic and one choped dry tomato slowly frying in about 3 tablespoons of olive oil (aglio olio style). Next I put some tomato paste into the pan to fry off a bit at first…
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Ling Ling Potsticker Sauce or Similar

I love pot stickers. I love them steamed, but even better deep fried. I've tried different brands and they all have a similar dipping sauce. It's hard to describe, but I'm sure a lot of you out there have tried it. I would guess its mostly soy…
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