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The fat is most often butter in French cuisine, but may be lard or vegetable oil in other cuisines. Roux is used in three of the five mother sauces of classic French cooking: béchamel sauce, velouté sauce, and espagnole sauce. [4] Roux may be made with any edible fat. For meat gravies, fat rendered from meat is often used.
The first recipe of a sauce similar to béchamel is in the book Le cuisinier françois by François Pierre de La Varenne in 1651, made with a roux, as in modern recipes. [3] The name of the sauce was given in honour of Louis de Béchameil, a financier who held the honorary post of chief steward to King Louis XIV of France in the 17th century.
Normande sauce: prepared with velouté or fish velouté, cream, butter, and egg yolk as primary ingredients; [2] [3] some versions may use mushroom cooking liquid and oyster liquid or fish fumet added to fish velouté, finished with a liaison of egg yolks and cream. Poulette: mushrooms finished with chopped parsley and lemon juice
For each cup of heavy cream in a recipe, whisk together 2/3 cup soy milk and 1/3 cup oil. You can use olive oil or vegetable oil — it depends on the general flavor of the dish you plan to use it ...
The viscosity of batter may range from very "heavy" (adhering to an upturned spoon) to "thin" (similar to single cream, enough to pour or drop from a spoon and sometimes called "drop batter"). Heat is applied to the batter, usually by frying , baking , or steaming , to cook the ingredients and to "set" the batter into a solid form.
Beurre maître d'hôtel is a savory butter prepared by mixing softened butter with very finely minced parsley, lemon juice, salt and pepper. [1] [4] [5] A ratio of around 1.5 tablespoons of parsley to two ounces of butter may be used. [6] Additional ingredients may include shallot and Worcestershire sauce.
Heavy cream, on the other hand, is a versatile ingredient. Whether you're adding richness to soups, sauces, or stews or creaminess to desserts (like this peanut butter pie ), it works just as well ...
Beurre manié (French "kneaded butter") is a paste, consisting of equal parts by volume of soft butter and flour, used to thicken soups and sauces. By kneading the flour and butter together, the flour particles are coated in butter. When the beurre manié is whisked into a hot or warm liquid, the butter melts, releasing the flour particles ...