Cream sauce for a variety of dishes
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The sauce is a note in the culinary Symphony, with which the dish can play brand new flavors. Different sauces to all sorts of dishes chefs from different countries of the world are preparing for many centuries, and cooking a good sauce is a real art. We will talk about a creamy sauce, learning to cook which you can improve or add to the taste of many dishes.
One of the universal sauces, along with Bechamel sauce that is creamy. It can be served with different dishes, and his homeland is also France.
The British joke: if in our country there are only 3 types of sauces and 360 species of religion, the French Vice versa - 360 kinds of sauce and only 3 religions. Actually, recipes for sauces in France there are about 3 thousand.
Liquid Foundation creamy sauce, as you might guess, is cream. For the sauce cream are, as a rule, the average fat content in the region of 20%. This sauce is different with consistence, airy, delicate, creamy flavor and is perfect for vegetables, pasta, meat, fish. To prepare this sauce will be able to learn every though and spoke great French chef Brij-Savarin that fry and cook can learn, and for the sauce right talent that you have to be born is to learn how to cook sauces impossible. Trying to make a creamy sauce for this recipe, you will quickly see that can a great cook and knew a lot about the delicious dishes, but in this statement he did wrong.
Technology of preparation of the cream sauce is simple: first flour roasted in a dry pan or in butter, then dry mixture connected with cream - no wisdom.
The recipe is a classic creamy sauce
You will need: 200 ml cream 20%, 1 tbsp. flour and butter, pepper, salt.
How to make a basic cream sauce. Fry the flour in a dry pan until Golden, put the butter, stir until smooth and lightly fry, add the cream, boil the mixture for a couple minutes, constantly her vigorously stirring, salt and pepper.
Learning to cook a basic cream sauce, you can start to experiment by adding additional ingredients - spices, vegetables and so on, for Example, a new twist of flavor, this sauce will play, if you add just one extra ingredient is nutmeg. Very tasty sauce can be made on the basis of the butter with onions.
Recipe creamy onion sauce
You will need: 55g thick cream, 1.5 cups of milk ? onions, ? Bay leaves, 2 tbsp. butter, 1 tbsp. flour, 1 pinch of salt.
How to cook creamy onion sauce. Finely chop the onion, pour milk in a pan, put onion, Laurel and bring to a boil, immediately remove from heat and allow to stand for 15 min, then drain. Melt the butter, add the flour, warm up, stirring, pour the strained milk, bring all to a boil, add salt, warm up the sauce for 10 minutes, add the cream, stir.
This sauce can not only be made with the second dishes, but also add to soups. Another popular option is creamy sauce with mushrooms.
Recipe for creamy mushroom sauce
You will need: 200 g fresh mushrooms, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 Cup cream, 4 tbsp butter, nutmeg, pepper, pepper, parsley, salt.
How to make creamy mushroom sauce. Melt the butter in a pan, add finely chopped garlic, 3 minutes to extinguish, put the chopped slices mushrooms, 5 min to put out, pour the warmed cream, simmer 10 minutes, add salt and pepper, add the nutmeg, chopped parsley, then the sauce for another 5 minutes
Another very popular option creamy sauce with cheese.
Recipe creamy cheese sauce
You will need: 200 g cream, 175 g of hard cheese, 2 garlic cloves, nutmeg, pepper, salt.
How to make a creamy cheese sauce. On a small grater, grate the cheese. Pour the cream into a saucepan, on low heat to heat, add cheese, 2-4 min to warm up, add the nutmeg and pepper, put the chopped garlic, salt, stir, cook the sauce for another 3 minutes on slow fire.
Any of these sauces can not only add to the finished dish, but also be used for cooking any food, such as shrimp, salmon, meatballs, etc.
There are other recipes creamy sauces, also based on the use of cream, but far removed from the original recipe. For example, an interesting sauce for pasta and spaghetti.
The recipe for the cream sauce for pasta
You will need: 450 g of bacon, 125 ml cream 20%, 75 grams of grated cheese (Parmesan or similar), 4 shallots, 3 egg yolks, 1 large onion, 1 clove of garlic, 5 tsp. olive oil, black pepper, salt.
How to make a creamy sauce for pasta. Olive oil to heat in Tolstoganova pan, finely chop the shallots, continue cooking until soft, add the chopped onion half rings and fry sliced strips of bacon, fry until half cooked bacon, add finely chopped garlic, remove from heat. In a bowl, whisk the yolks, add the cream, put the cheese, pepper and salt, shake thoroughly (if you doubt the quality of the eggs, yolks may be warmed in a water bath, then cool and then mix with cream). Put the onion mixture and bacon to the pasta, pour the egg-cream mass and mix.
Preparing and submitting cream sauce, remember, this pleasure is not only very tasty but also very nutritious, so its consumption should be limited, not giving in to impulses enough to enjoy this wonderful taste.