ESPAGNOLE SAUCE
Espagnole is a classic brown sauce, typically made from brown stock, mirepoix, and tomatoes, and thickened with roux. Given that the sauce is French in origin, where did the name come from? According to Alan Davidson, in The Oxford Companion to Food, "The name has nothing to do with Spain, any more than the counterpart term allemande has anything to do with Germany. It is generally believed that the terms were chosen because in French eyes Germans are blond and Spaniards are brown."
Categories Sauce Beef Vegetable Sauté Christmas Simmer Gourmet
Yield Makes about 2 2/3 cups
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Cook carrot and onion in butter in a 3-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until golden, 7 to 8 minutes. Add flour and cook roux over moderately low heat, stirring constantly, until medium brown, 6 to 10 minutes. Add hot stock in a fast stream, whisking constantly to prevent lumps, then add tomato purée, garlic, celery, peppercorns, and bay leaf and bring to a boil, stirring. Reduce heat and cook at a bare simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until reduced to about 3 cups, about 45 minutes.
- Pour sauce through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, discarding solids.
- *Available at some specialty foods shops and cooking.com (stock requires a dilution ratio of 1:16; 1/4 cup concentrate to 4 cups water).
BEEF TENDERLOIN WITH MUSHROOMS AND ESPAGNOLE SAUCE
Steps:
- Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 425°F.
- Remove any strings from beef if tied, then pat beef dry and sprinkle with kosher salt and pepper. Heat oil in a deep 12-inch heavy skillet over high heat until just smoking, then sear beef 1 piece at a time, turning with tongs, until well browned, about 5 minutes each. (If beef tenderloin pieces are too long to fit into skillet, halve each crosswise, then brown 2 pieces at a time.) Transfer beef to an 18- by 12-inch flameproof roasting pan, reserving skillet.
- Roast beef in oven until thermometer inserted diagonally 2 inches into center of each piece registers 120°F, 20 to 25 minutes. Transfer beef to a cutting board, reserving roasting pan, and let stand, loosely covered with foil, 25 minutes. (Beef will continue to cook as it stands, reaching 130°F for medium-rare.)
- While beef roasts, heat butter in skillet over moderately high heat until foam subsides, then reduce heat to moderate and cook mushrooms, stirring, until liquid they give off is evaporated and mushrooms are pale golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat.
- While beef stands, straddle roasting pan across 2 burners, then add Sherry and deglaze pan by boiling over high heat, stirring and scraping up brown bits, 1 minute. Add Sherry mixture and espagnole sauce to mushrooms and cook over moderate heat, stirring, until warm. Cover skillet and remove from heat.
- Cut off and discard strings from beef and cut meat crosswise into 10 or 20 slices. Pour any juices on cutting board into sauce and heat over moderate heat, stirring, until hot.
- Serve beef with sauce.
ESPAGNOLE SAUCE
Provided by Emeril Lagasse
Time 50m
Yield 1 gallon
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- In a stock pot, whisk the hot stock into the roux. In a large saute pan, heat the reserved bacon fat. When the fat is hot, saute the vegetables until wilted, about 5 minutes. Stir the tomato puree into the vegetables and cook for about 5 minutes. Add the tomato/vegetable mixture to the stock/roux mixture. Add the bouquet garni and continue to simmer, skimming as needed. Season with salt and pepper. Simmer the sauce for about 20 minutes. Strain the sauce through a China cap.
CHICKEN SKEWERS WITH ESPAGNOLE SAUCE
Provided by Robert Irvine : Food Network
Categories appetizer
Time 1h25m
Yield 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Special equipment: bamboo skewers
- For the sauce:
- Heat oil in a heavy-bottomed saucepan, and saute scallions, celery, carrot, and garlic over medium-low heat for about 20 minutes, stirring frequently, until the vegetables have caramelized lightly. Add the red wine and beef stock and bring to a simmer.
- In a stainless steel mixing bowl, whisk together the toasted flour and butter, add the tomato paste, then gradually ladle in the hot stock, whisking as you go to make a smooth sauce. Add the sachet d'epices of parsley, thyme, bay leaf, and peppercorn, reduce heat to low, and simmer for about 50 minutes. Skim any impurities off the surface.
- Heat oil to 350 degrees F in a deep-fryer.
- Mix the chili powder, salt and garlic powder in a shallow bowl and stir in flour. Skewer chunks of chicken using bamboo skewers which have been pre-soaked in water, and dip chicken into warm water, then coat with seasoned flour. Fry until cooked through (about 6 minutes) and serve with Espagnole sauce. (Alternatively, these can be grilled by eliminating the flour and dipping the moistened skewered chicken into the mixed seasonings, then grilling until cooked through.)
SAUCE ESPAGNOLE - SPANISH SAUCE
Wonderful, flavorful sauce that is great over any kind of enchiladas, or even a plain chicken breast. So much flavor in such a simple quick recipe! *Note:* Stock is important and should be used rather than broth. If broth is used you will have a less flavorful, less full bodied sauce. There are many great recipes here on Zaar for stock and you can even find stock at your grocery now too! Any type will do, beef, chicken, even make it vegetarian! Hope you enjoy!
Provided by Mamas Kitchen Hope
Categories Sauces
Time 30m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Heat a skillet over medium heat. When pan is warm add butter and oil and heat until butter is melted.
- Clean and roughly chop onion, celery, carrot, bell peppers and parsley and add them to pan with the bay leaf. Cook until nicely browned.
- Mix the flour and seasonings together and add to pan. Cook, stirring constantly. This will cook the flour and develop wonderful flavor.
- Allow the flour to develop a light tan color. About a minute or two.
- Whisk in the stock and until everything is well incorporated. Taste and season with salt and pepper if desired.
- Allow to cook about five minutes or until desired thickness is achieved.
- Strain and serve or refrigerate and reheat when needed, whisking until smooth.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 161.7, Fat 12.8, SaturatedFat 4.7, Cholesterol 15.3, Sodium 765.9, Carbohydrate 10.8, Fiber 2, Sugar 3.1, Protein 2
FOUR SEASONS' BROWN SAUCE (SAUCE ESPAGNOLE)
This recipe is by one of the highest rated restaurants in New York City. It is used neat and also as a component of many of their other recipes. It's an extra-ordinary recipe that uses ordinary ingredients. It's very easy, but it does take time. You may think it's a bit of work, but I think it's worth it and have used it in dozens of ways (it's great on or in most anything). A wonderful basic that you may use as you need it. Keeps in the fridge several days and it freezes well, so you'll always be able to keep some on hand.
Provided by DonnaR
Categories Sauces
Time 11h20m
Yield 4 Cups
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Brown carrots and onions slowly with the fatback and add the seasonings.
- Mix flour and butter to form a rouix and add, mixing well.
- Add a quart of stock and simmer very slowly for three hours.
- Strain.
- Let stand overnight.
- Add remaining stock, tomatoes and wine and simmer slowly for 2 hours, skimming fat and scum.
- Strain again.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 411.9, Fat 16.9, SaturatedFat 10.2, Cholesterol 40.6, Sodium 3046.1, Carbohydrate 44.6, Fiber 3.3, Sugar 4.7, Protein 10.4
SAUCE ESPAGNOLE
This classic brown sauce is one of the five French mother sauces and is used as the base of a number of sauces that are served with meat or poultry, including Bordelaise, Robert, Chasseur, Madeira, Estragon and Diable. The key to sauce espagnole is to slowly cook the roux so it becomes brown without burning. If you're nervous, you can begin with clarified butter, which has a high smoke point. The classic version is made with homemade veal stock. Beef stock will work, though it will give the final sauce a slightly different flavor. If homemade stock isn't available, choose the best low- or no-sodium stock you can find. Instead of adding salt to this base sauce, you'll add it to your final dish since the saltiness of the additional ingredients will vary.
Provided by Food Network
Time 1h15m
Yield about 4 cups
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Whisk in the flour to make a smooth paste. Cook, stirring frequently with a wooden spoon and lowering the heat as needed to prevent burning, until the roux is several shades darker than peanut butter, 18 to 20 minutes.
- Stir in the carrots, celery and onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until the onions begin to soften, about 3 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste, then whisk in the white wine and cook until the mixture thickens, 1 to 2 minutes. Don't worry if the vegetables get stuck in the whisk; as you add more liquid, they will release and combine with the sauce. Whisk in the stock, 1 cup at a time, and lower the heat to a simmer.
- To make a bouquet garni, place the peppercorns, parsley, thyme and bay leaves and in a square of cheesecloth and tie it into a bundle with kitchen twine. Submerge the bouquet garni in the sauce.
- Simmer the sauce, using a spoon to skim off any fat or scum that rises to the surface, until it reduces by half and has the consistency of gravy, 30 to 45 minutes.
- Remove the bouquet garni, then strain the sauce through a fine-mesh sieve or cheesecloth. Use as desired as a base for sauces.
CLASSIC SAUCE ESPAGNOLE
Provided by Barbara Poses Kafka
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Put lard in a heavy saucepan over low heat, cook for 10 minutes. Add carrot, onion, bay leaf and thyme; stir while cooking over medium heat and until onions are well browned. Spoon off 2 or 3 tablespoons of the liquid fat. Add wine and cook until liquid is reduced by half.
- While this mixture is reducing, melt the butter in another heavy saucepan, add the flour and brown over low heat. Remove from heat, add 2 cups of stock or combined boullion and meat glaze stirring with a whisk. Return to heat, bring to boil, add vegetable mixture. Reduce heat to very low and let cook for 3 hours, stirring occasionally and skimming from time to time.
- Strain the sauce through an extremely fine sieve, pressing down on vegetables with a wooden spoon. Add 1 cup stock and again simmer over lowest heat for 3 hours. Put in refrigerator overnight. In the morning skim off fat. Peel tomatoes after drenching with boiling water. Add tomatoes to sauce along with remaining stock. Cook over moderate heat. After tomatoes have liquified, continue cooking until you have about 1 1/4 cups sauce remaining. Add salt and fresh pepper to taste. Use 2 or 3 tablespoons of sauce per serving.
DEMI-GLACE & ESPAGNOLE SAUCE
Rich dark sauce perfect to add to others or by itself, this Demi-Glace from Espagnole Sauce is definitely a must in your kitchen!
Provided by Francine Lizotte
Categories Other Sauces
Time 1h55m
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- 1. Espagnole Sauce; In a large pot over medium heat, add clarified butter and when sizzling, add mirepoix (onion, celery, carrot) and cook for 6 minutes or until soft. Add chervil, stir before adding flour; cook for a few minutes. Pour in beef broth and add tomato purée; season with black pepper and bay leaf. Stir well, bring mixture to a boil then reduce back to medium and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- 2. Pour the sauce through a fine sieve resting on a bowl pressing down on the vegetables to extract as much liquid and flavor as possible; discard what's in the sieve. Pour the Espagnole sauce in a measuring cup to know the volume; transfer back to a clean pot.
- 3. Demi-Glace; Pour in beef stock equal to the same amount of Espagnole sauce; i.e. if it was 2 ½ cups Espagnole sauce, add 2 ½ cups beef stock. Bring to a boil.
- 4. Meanwhile, prepare the spice/herb sachet. In a sachet or cheesecloth, combine thyme leaves, peppercorns, bay leaf and parsley; tie shut or use kitchen twine if using cheesecloth; set aside.
- 5. When sauce is boiling, add sachet to it. Stir well, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer gently until the liquid has reduced by half, about 40 to 50 minutes.
- 6. Retrieve the sachet and discard it. Line a fine sieve with cheesecloth over a large bowl. Pour the demi-glace through it; discard the cheesecloth and proceed with the recipe otherwise pour it in an ice cube tray and transfer to the freezer. When frozen, place demi-glace cubes in a re-sealable freezer bag for later use
- 7. NOTE: If not using the demi-glace for another sauce, season it and serve it.
- 8. To view this recipe on YouTube, click on this link >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h2dHIjsUCM
SHORT-CUT SAUCE ESPAGNOLE
Provided by Barbara Poses Kafka
Categories Sauce Tomato Quick & Easy Boil House & Garden
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Cook lard and butter together over medium heat for 5 minutes. Add onion, bay leaf and thyme, cook till onion browns. With slotted spoon, remove onion and bay leaf. Reduce heat, sprinkle in flour, cook for 2 minutes, stirring well. Add wine. Raise heat and stirring with a sauce whisk, slowly add boiling stock. Add meat glaze. Now, depending how hurried you are, either add the peeled and seeded tomatoes and boil hard till tomatoes are liquified and entire sauce is reduced to 1 1/4 cups, or, more quickly, boil sauce hard until reduced to 1 1/4 cups and then dissolve tomato paste in a small quantity of hot sauce and add to rest of sauce. (Using tomato paste, the entire sauce takes about 1/2 hour.) Add salt and fresh pepper to taste. Allow 2 or 3 tablespoons of sauce per serving.
EATING WELL'S ESPAGNOLE SAUCE
From the original Eating Well magazine. This recipe is from 1990. I wanted to post it here so I don't lose it. This uses components from other Eating Well recipes I have posted separately. Use on roasted chicken or meats.
Provided by Sheynath
Categories Free Of...
Time 3h15m
Yield 1 1/2 cups, 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Finely chop carrot, onion, thyme and bay leaf together in a food processor.
- Transfer vegetable mixture to a non-aluminum saucepan. Sprinkle cornstach over minced vegetables and toss to coat evenly.
- Stir in white wine and cook over moderate heat, stirring, for about 2 minutes, or until mixture is warm.
- Stir in stock. Bring mixture to a boil over medium heat, stirring freqently and scraping bottom of pan to prevent sticking.
- Reduce heat to low and simmer for 2 hours, or until mixture has reduced to 2 cups. Continue to stir often and make sure mixture does not stick to bottom or sides of pan.
- Stir in tomato puree and simmer about 45 minutes longer, continuing to stir often. Remove from heat. Strain through a fine sieve, discard solids.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 26.7, Fat 0.1, Sodium 10.8, Carbohydrate 4.7, Fiber 0.6, Sugar 1.3, Protein 0.3
SAUCE ESPAGNOLE (2)
Steps:
- Melt butter over medium heat in a saucepan. When foam sub sides, turn heat to medium high; add onion, carrots and celery. Cook, stirring often, until lightly browned, about 8 minutes. Add four; cook, stirring often, until dark brown, 8-21 minutes. Add tomato paste , brown stock or beef broth and bay leaf, thyme and parsley. Turn heat to high; heat to a boil. Reduce heat to low, simmer 1 hour, skimming occasionally. Strain sauce through a fine sieve, pressing solids. Nutritional Information Per tablespoon: 11 calories, 61% of calories from fat, 1 gram fat, 2 mg cholesterol, 1 g carbohydrates, 400 mg sodium
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