sauce

In cooking, a sauce is a liquid, cream, or semi-solid food, served on or used in preparing other foods. Most sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to a dish. Sauce is a French word taken from the Latin salsa, meaning salted. Possibly the oldest recorded European sauce is garum, the fish sauce used by the Ancient Greeks; while doubanjiang, the Chinese soy bean paste is mentioned in Rites of Zhou in the 3rd century BC.
Sauces need a liquid component. Sauces are an essential element in cuisines all over the world.
Sauces may be used for sweet or savory dishes. They may be prepared and served cold, like mayonnaise, prepared cold but served lukewarm like pesto, cooked and served warm like bechamel or cooked and served cold like apple sauce. They may be freshly prepared by the cook, especially in restaurants, but today many sauces are sold premade and packaged like Worcestershire sauce, HP Sauce, soy sauce or ketchup. Sauces for salad are called salad dressing. Sauces made by deglazing a pan are called pan sauces.
A chef who specializes in making sauces is called a saucier.

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  1. Mountain Cat

    Recipe Eggplant / Aubergine Steaks with Farro and a Pomegranate Molasses Tahini Sauce

    I chose to serve this with farro - you could certainly use quinoa, rice, or whatever other grain or pseudo-grain fits your fancy. Just start with half a cup of whatever it is, and follow the instructions on the package for making it appropriately. Pasta would also work (although your timing...
  2. Burt Blank

    Recipe Istrian Fuži with Black Truffle Cream Sauce

    This is a classic dish from the Croatian region of Istria. Inspired by Marco Polo Some biographers claim that Marco Polo was born in the town of Korcula on the island Korcula, which was then part of the Venetian Republic. Source: Istrian Fuži with Black Truffle Cream Sauce Ingredients For...
  3. ElizabethB

    Recipe Tartar Sauce

    Tartar Sauce Super easy. You will never buy prepared Tartar Sauce again. INGREDIENTS 1/2 cup real Mayonnaise - a good quality jarred Mayo or make your own 3 TBSP minced dill pickle Zest of one lemon Juice of 1 lemon (2 -3 TBSP) 1 TBSP capers, drained and chopped 1 TBSP chopped fresh dill or...
  4. Sticky Fingers

    Pasta Sauce

    My wife has challenged me to make a tomato pasta sauce (something I have never tried) so I need a recipe, yes I could go and buy a jar and hide the empty but that's not cricket is it. So I need you all to give me idea's for a sauce with a difference (no tinned Tomato's because I have so many...
  5. Hungry Man

    Recipe & Video Fried Calamari and Turkish style Tarator sauce

    Fried calamari is one of the most popular summer dishes in Turkey and I've tried fried calamari in many countries and I think the ones in Turkey were the best. (to my taste :) Here is how I do it and together with a quick recipe for Turkish Tarator sauce (contains walnuts, garlic, yoghurt and...
  6. R

    Stuffed Ravioli or spaghetti sauce

    Difficult question this so be gentle with me please ... I'm building myself up to make Ravioli, salmon and prawn, so I have to make the pasta, cut it into little squares, carefully fill them and seal edges, drop into heated water (when some of them split open) ie lots of 'stages' and messing...
  7. rascal

    Curry sauce KFC

    We used to get nuggets here with choice of sauces in little pottles. The curry sauce was really yummy. I'm going to try to copy it, I giggled it and got nothing, maybe you Brits who love curry sauce on your chips might know how?? Help!! Russ
  8. R

    Can someone please help me figure out this sauce for hummus?

    So I was watching a video about this guy eating street frood. He got a pita with hummus, vegetables, oil & some kind of white sauce. It was all dripping down his hand & looked so good. I haven't been able to find that sauce. One person told me to try tzatziki but it had dill in it & tasted weird...
  9. Morning Glory

    Recipe Smoky Roasted Red Pepper Sauce

    This is something of a discovery for me. This sauce has such a vibrant red colour, the texture is velvety and thick and yet its totally fat free and consequently low calorie. I used it here with chicken - I simply added chunks of chicken breast to the sauce and simmered gently until the chicken...
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    Peppers sauce for pasta.jpeg

  11. rascal

    Corned beef n carrots with mustard sauce.

    Old favourite here, freezer diving and come across a nice piece, daughter spotted it, make corned beef n carrots dad! This is kiwi version, but I think it's pretty much UK version. Usually done in winter but it's Autumn so I'm going it. Crock pot and on slow for 5 hrs. Carrots added to pot with...
  12. S

    DIY from scratch recipe for Samyang Hot Chicken Flavour Ramen

    I love the flavour of the instant Samyang Hot Chicken Flavour Ramen 2x Spicy, but it's way too spicy and hot. Does anyone know how I can make the sauce myself from scratch so that it tastes exactly the same as the red packet one, or if not very similar but with only just a little hint of...
  13. rascal

    Hot chilly sauce home made

    My wife grows chillies in her greenhouses and out the back as well. Every year I make a batch of hot chilly sauce, I make when red capsicums are cheap. I used 18 in this, char grilled under the grill/ broiler. Then in a pot with about 300 chillies of all different sizes, see pic. I add the...
  14. rascal

    Mint sauce home made.

    Every second home here has mint growing in the garden, mines around the side of house that has no sun. So I've left mint to grow along with horseradish. Wife picked a bunch of it so I made sauce. We get through about 3 or 4 litres a year, I have it with lamb. Roast chicken and mix it in my...
  15. rascal

    Garlic sauce

    A fave around here with a steak, just taken three porterhouse steaks out. So I made another batch of garlic sauce, 500mls home made tomato sauce, about 30 cloves garlic, 1 tablespoon mustard powder, white pepper and a bit of sugar. Sides will be.... Undecided yet, prolly jacket potato.?? Russ
  16. Saranak

    Recipe Simple Bechamel Sauce

    I give recipe to make for 1 litre. Simple Béchamel. 850ml milk 2 pinch salt ground nutmeg to taste 85g butter 85g 00 grade flour Heat milk inside pan put inside salt and nutmeg. Melt butter inside another pan do not let go brown. When butter melt add flour stir all time. Cook for 1 munute...
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    4 cheese sauce flavoured with thyme.jpeg

  18. J

    Curry sauce made using raw cane sugar

    Does anyone know of a curry sauce that I could buy made without the use of white sugar. e.g. it might contain raw cane sugar or jaggery.
  19. Morning Glory

    Recipe Flageolet Verts in Garlic & Wine Sauce

    Delicate flageolet verts are perfect in this creamy wine, butter and garlic sauce. I used only a small amount of spinach here but you can vary the quantity or even leave it out altogether. I used some of the water from the can of beans to thicken the sauce. If you wish you could add a splash of...
  20. MypinchofItaly

    Recipe Pisarei e fasò – Small Gnocchi with Borlotti Beans and Tomato Sauce

    The Pisarei are small gnocchi from the city of Piacenza, Emilia Romagna region. Although they may seem similar to usual gnocchi at first glance, they are actually not made with potatoes but with a mixture of flour and old, stale bread. Farmers, traditionally not wealthy, developed this technique...
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