Classic Sauce Recipes Archives - The Johan

Sauce Bordelaise Recipe: Classic French Red Wine Sauce

Johan Johansen — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:45:10 +0000

Want to know how to make the richest, most decadent, flavorful and intense red wine sauce known to man? Then look no further than to Sauce Bordelaise: an intense mix of red wine, shallots and pure, intense beefy goodness, usually used for topping steaks and grilled meat that sits at the pinnacle of classic, French hedonistic [...]

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Beginner’s Guide to Mexican Food, Part III: Salsa Verde (Green Sauce)

Johan Johansen — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 06:36:42 +0000

Friends, it has become time to tell you about one of the most vibrant, fragrant, tasty yet sadly overlooked components of Mexican cuisine: Salsa Verde! Salsa Verde – the great, often unsung, hero of Mexican cuisine. Photo credit: Malou Rotvel Pagh, Klidmoster.dk What is Salsa Verde? Salsa Verde, literally green sauce, is a term used [...]

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Beginner’s Guide to Mexican Food, Part I: Salsa Roja

Johan Johansen — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 06:13:55 +0000

Salsa Roja – The perfect Mexican Condiment. That was the working title of this post which was to center on the most flavorful and versatile of Mexican condiments: Salsa roja! Not many paragraphs into the introduction, the working title warped into something more along the lines of “Mexican Food: A Love Affair!”. When, a few [...]

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Sauce Demi-Glace Recipe: How To Make The Ultimate Classic French Sauce

Johan Johansen — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 07:02:48 +0000

Ah, Sauce Demi-Glace… The perfect beefy sauce! A most treasured, often misunderstood curiosity of the French sauce kitchen – an important part of French culinary history that is mastered by few but cherished by many lovers of French haute cuisine. Sauce Demi-Glace atop a beautiful piece of Rib Eye Steak… Life on earth is good! Today [...]

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Sauce Espagnole Recipe: How to make Escoffier’s Famous Mother Sauce

Johan Johansen — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 07:30:39 +0000

In today’s blog post, we explore a cornerstone of the French kitchen: Today we talk sauce. More to the point, we talk Sauce Espagnole – a classic brown sauce and one of the famous mother sauces of the French kitchen. Sauce Espagnole – A mother of a sauce! Sauce Espagnole – or Spanish Sauce if [...]

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