Best Sorrel Tarragon Sauce Recipes

SORREL TARRAGON SAUCE

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients in medium bowl.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Cover and chill at least 4 hours.
• (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Keep refrigerated.)

CREAMY TARRAGON SAUCE

Steps:

• In a small bowl combine all ingredients, mix well and chill, covered until needed.
• Beautiful served with fresh grilled seafood. I hope you will enjoy this treat.

SORREL SAUCE

Steps:

• Chop sorrel finely.
• Combine the other ingredients in a blender or food processor. Add sorrel and blend or process briefly, just until smooth. Refrigerate until ready to serve with the tomatoes - 2 to 3 hours or overnight.

EGGS POACHED IN BUTTERY SORREL SAUCE

Steps:

• Thinly slice scallions, separating darker green parts for garnish.
• In a skillet over medium heat, melt butter. Add light green and white parts of scallion and sauté until wilted, 2 minutes. Add sorrel leaves, salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, until sorrel wilts and starts to break down, turning olive-green in color, about 3 minutes. Stir in cream and let simmer for 1 minute to thicken a bit.
• Carefully crack eggs into skillet; they should fit in one layer. Lower heat to medium-low and sprinkle eggs with salt and pepper. Cover pan and let cook for 2 minutes, then turn off heat and let eggs rest, covered, until done to taste, about another 30 seconds for very runny yolks (the whites should cook through).
• Carefully scoop eggs and sorrel sauce into two bowls. Season with chile and flaky salt; garnish with scallion greens. Serve with toast.

BABA'S BEST SORREL SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large Dutch oven over medium heat. Add onion and garlic; cook and stir until soft, about 5 minutes. Add sorrel in batches, stirring well until wilted, 5 to 8 minutes in all.
• Pour chicken stock and water into the Dutch oven. Stir in potatoes, carrot, parsley, dill, lemon juice, black pepper, and cayenne pepper. Simmer soup until flavors combine, about 1 hour.
• Puree soup with an immersion blender until mostly smooth before serving.

PECAN-CRUSTED SALMON WITH SORREL SAUCE

Steps:

• For Sauce:
• Combine sorrel, wine and shallots in heavy small saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sorrel wilts, about 2 minutes. Add cream and lime juice. Boil until reduced to sauce consistency, about 12 minutes. Transfer sauce to blender. Purée until almost smooth. Return sauce to same saucepan. Season with ground white pepper and salt.
• For Fish:
• Finely grind pecans, tarragon and basil in processor. Blend in butter. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer to small bowl. (Sauce and nut mixture can be made 1 day ahead. Cover separately and chill. Let nut mixture stand at room temperature 30 minutes before using.)
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Oil large baking sheet. Arrange salmon on prepared sheet. Sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper. Spoon equal amount of nut mixture over top of each fillet.
• Bake salmon until cooked through, about 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, bring sauce to simmer.
• Using spatula, transfer salmon to plates. Spoon sauce around fish.

CHICKEN WITH SORREL SAUCE

Steps:

• Pick over the sorrel. Discard any tough stems and blemished leaves. Rinse the leaves and pat them dry. Pack the leaves closely and cut them crosswise into very thin strips. This is called a chiffonade There should be about two cups or slightly more when loosely packed.
• Pat the chicken breast halves lightly with a flat mallet. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Prepare the mushrooms and set them aside.
• Heat one tablespoon of the butter in a saucepan and add the shallots. Cook briefly, stirring, and add the mushrooms. Cook until the mushrooms give up their liquid and the liquid evaporates. Add the sorrel and cook, stirring, until the sorrel wilts. Add the cream, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Cook about two minutes. Set aside.
• Heat the remaining two tablespoons of butter in a heavy skillet and add the chicken breast pieces. Cook, turning the pieces occasionally, until cooked through, about six to eight minutes.
• Pour the sorrel sauce into a heat- proof dish and bring to the boil, stirring. Arrange the chicken pieces on top. Spoon the sauce over the chicken and serve.

TARRAGON SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt 1 T butter over medium heat. Add shallots and cook until soft but not brown (less than 1 minute).
• Add wine and gently boil uncovered until all of liquid is evaporated and shallots make a sizzle noise.
• Mix 1/4 cup of poaching liquid or chicken broth to onions. DO NOT ADD MORE - it will be too thin.
• When liquid simmers over medium heat whisk in 1 T butter at a time. Wait until the previous on e almost melts before adding another.
• Add lemon juice and salt continuing to whisk. Turn off heat.
• Add tarragon and parsley and onion mix to blender. Process until smooth.