Questions tagged [sauce]
A separately-prepared cooking liquid or condiment served with other food.
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Is there a kind of food like bread that I can use to absorb sauce but that doesn't dry out so fast?
This is more related to eating than cooking: is there a kind of food that I can use to absorb sauce but that doesn't dry out as fast as bread?
I was thinking in the context of using bread to get the ...
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How do reduce the sourness of pasta cooked with peppers?
I made pasta today using Parmesan Romano sauce and jalapenos and banana peppers from a can. The result was extremely tangy. Is this because jalapenos and banana peppers are sour by nature, or because ...
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How to make thick Asian sauces?
Is there a common ingredient, or cooking technique, that gives sauces such as Teriyaki, General Tsos, Orange Chicken; their thick/syrupy texture?
We sometimes make dishes in a crock pot; we have a ...
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In general, would I need to season a meat when making a sauce?
I'm making a Romesco Sauce. I wonder, in general, would I need to season the meat that goes with the sauce? or do I leave the meat plain (just cook thoroughly without even salt and pepper).
The ...
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Reducing sauce or gravy always forms a skin
Apologies if I've phrased this wrongly. I don't try to do this very often: that is, boil a sauce to evaporate the liquid (I understand this to be known as 'reducing the sauce'); however, when I do, I ...
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Instructions on making Japanese fish sauce? (Shottsuru) [closed]
Would anyone happen to have step-by-step instructions to make Japanese fish sauce?
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A thinner béarnaise?
I've been using Julia Child's béarnaise recipe---2 tbl reduction, 3 egg
yolks, 4 oz clarified butter---, which produces a very thick sauce. Is
this just how it's supposed to be, or is there a non-...
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What am I doing wrong with my Beurre Blanc?
I made my first Beurre Blanc a couple days ago. It got very sour and I had to pour some sugar to sweeten it. I'm almost sure I reduced the wine and the vinegar enough before I started throwing in the ...
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Why is my tomato sauce getting pink?
I was trying to make regular tomato sauce for on my pizza. And I didn't want to buy any processed goods. So I bought tomatoes:
I put them into a blender and just blended them until it became smooth. ...
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How to prevent sweet thick glaze/sauce from setting after cooling?
I attempted to make a sweet balsamic glaze/sauce from a simple recipe that called for 1 cup balsamic vinegar and half a cup of brown sugar. To my own tastes I added a bit of Worcestershire sauce, a ...
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Chocolate sauce with nuts
Hi is anyone able to help me. I’ve been making chocolate suave from the cacao bean in a melanger. I add half nuts to make the sauce. It tastes beautiful however after a month of being stored within a ...
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Why is bolognese cooked for so long?
Most bolognese recipes advise to simmer the sauce for 4 hours, some even advise to simmer longer than that.
Until I heard about that, I had a recipe, which was a total of maybe 45min of cooking, ...
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How many dried herbs are mixed with a kilo of tomato sauce? [closed]
How many tablespoon of dried oregano should be placed for a kilo of tomato sauce for my spaghetti sauce? Please answer my question.
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Tamarind Pulp Gritty
After soaking and sieving the tamarind through a fine mesh strainer, the remaining pulp has some grit. It kinda ruined my dish. Wonder if there’s any method that would get rid of the grit, maybe a ...
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Too much port in sauce
I overshot the port and the taste is overpowering. There is also cream and heavy cream in there, as well as black truffles.
Is there any way to fix it?
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If I want a complex, yeasty soy sauce, what to look for?
My local Asian food shop has many, many, brands of Chinese soy sauce, light and dark, most of them describing themselves as 'superior'.
What should I be looking for in the ingredients lists as a sign ...
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Can I use cream cheese in a sauce?
I made a white sauce with butter flour and milk, intending to add cheddar for a cheese sauce. Then I realized I'd run out the day before. Could I have used Philadelphia cream cheese instead? I'm in ...
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How long do I boil store bought or canned tomato sauce for spaghetti?
How long do I boil store bought or canned tomato sauce to use for spaghetti?
I know that tomato sauce can be cooked in cans that are available from the grocery store. Why should it take 4-6 hours?
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What makes this hot sauce last half a year in the fridge?
What makes this hot sauce last half a year in the fridge? (as stated by author @7:40)
This recipe uses very little salt, no sugar, no vinegar, no oil, the PH wasn't modified, and it wasn't fermented ...
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How to mix parmessan (or any hard cheese) into oil sauce
When making sauces from a roux or starchy water (like cacio e pepe), I find it's quite easy to infuse hard cheese like Parmesan into it.
However, is there anything I can do when working with oil-...
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Does addition of tomato puree make the oil component of sauce less lubricating?
I believe the oil component of a sauce of a pasta sauce, for example is the critical lubricating factor. It is here that herbs and spices will get infused. Wherever the oil goes thereafter so will ...
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Best way to cheat at hollandaise?
While I've been making it for years, hollandaise remains a fussy, error-prone sauce where the slightest error in technique, measurement, or timing results in an oily mess and a huge waste of expensive ...
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Washing vegetables that I accidentally threw moldy tomato sauce on safe?
So I was frying some mushrooms and was gonna put tomato sauce/passata on it but I didn't realize it was moldy until I squeezed it out of the box and onto the mushrooms. I immediately put everything in ...
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How can I process Hot Pepper without killing the spice (capsaicin)?
I am planning to make sauces using a local, very strong, Pepper called "Rocoto" which has 200 000 Scoville heat units.
The problem is, unlike Habanero or Chili, the pepper itself is kind delicate, so ...
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Make a buttery sauce less oily
There is a sauce that I make that uses browned butter as its base. I love the taste but it just feels incredibly oily.
Is there anything I can add that will fix some of the oil feel or is there a ...
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When pureeing tomatoes for a fresh tomato sauce, should you throw out the juices or not?
One benefit is reduced cooking time since you need to evaporate all the juices before the tomatoes start caramelizing. On the other hand, wont these juices contain flavor you might waste if thrown ...
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How long should you cook anchovy and anchovy paste to extract the most flavor?
Like with garlic, I always feel like I either overcook or undercook my anchovies when I add them to a flavor paste.
I guess the first question is if when using a paste instead of whole or chopped do ...
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Why when I add garlic to an existing flavor base with veggies, it rarely gets golden brown?
Many sources suggest to add the garlic a minute or so before adding the main ingredient (tomatoes, cream etc) because if you start with the garlic, by the time the mirepoix has properly been sauteed ...
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Can you freeze caramel sauce? [duplicate]
As caramel sauce makes everything better from cakes to brownies, cookies even enhances the flavor of popcorn. I am thinking to make caramel sauce and freeze it, so it can be used as and when required. ...
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Preserving sauces
I am trying my best to be chemical free. We use vinegar to preserve tomato sauces and pizza sauces for few days/ weeks. How do we preserve other sauces? I was trying carrot sauce, pumpkin sauce and ...
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What to do with 10 liters Heinz BBQ sauce?
I just got a 10 liter bucket of Heinz BBQ sauce for free, and the expiration date is next week. Any ideas how to properly utilize it?
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What is important to keep in mind when making a white sauce?
White sauce is dairy based, but what is it exactly? What are the main ingredients? Is it thickened somehow or not? How thick should it be? Should it contain herbs or oil?
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How do starches, butter and milk interact from a culinary chemistry / food technology standpoint?
I'm trying to find out how different starches behave and how they interact with other ingredients. Corn starch (Maizena), for example, will act as a thickener as soon as it reaches its gelatinization ...
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What pasta sauces can I make that don't include cheese? [closed]
I've been making a fairly standard arrabbiata sauce for months, and I'd like to expand the number of sauces I can make.
However, many of these recipes involve cheese and/or milk, but I'm sadly ...
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When should or shouldn't you use pasta water? [duplicate]
Every sauced pasta dish recipe I ever read calls for using the water in which the pasta was cooked for the purpose of thickening the sauce, as the water contains a lot of starch which helps the pasta ...
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Caramel fudge pieces into sauce?
I'm wondering if there is a way to turn store-bought caramel fudge pieces into a caramel sauce? Would that be possible?
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use of xanthan gum in tomato ketchup
If we make tomato ketchup of 100kg tomatoes.
What would be the procedure to add the gum?
What quantity of gum should be used?
Currently we are using corn starch as a thickener but it does not give ...
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Can I just skip the hot sauce when making buffalo sauce?
I've looked for the buffalo wings recipe, trying to find a way to make it from scratch, and came up with recipes revolving around this sort of ingredients:
3 tablespoons white vinegar
1/2 teaspoon ...
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When making a sauce, at what point should you add the wine?
Should you add it right after heating the fat? Or after youre done sauteing all the veggies so they soak all the wine? Or should you start with the wine THEN add the fat?
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Authentic Asian Sweet & Sour Sauce - Recipe [closed]
Although its a well known fact that the Sweet & Sour sauce we have come to expect is not really an authentic sauce served in Asia, its one that we have come to love in North America. The problem ...
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Alternative for tartar sauce?
Is there a substitute for tartar sauce? It is difficult to find in India. I need an alternative that can be obtained in Indian markets.
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Substitute to grain mustard
I am planning on doing a recipe of mustard sauce pork. Here is the recipe for the sauce (quantities are approximate, the recipe is inspired from a Gordon Ramsay Youtube video):
Ingredients
1 tbsp ...
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Why do creamed sauces often contain nutmeg?
Many recipes for creamed spinach to cream of broccoli soup contain nutmeg. Why does this spice compliment such sauces so well?
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How to decide whether to reduce a sauce or thicken it?
The approach I always adopted to thicken a sauce is to reduce it so the water can evaporate, leaving a sauce that is more concentrated. Earlier, I watched a video where the host was talking about ...
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What pepper is used in Sriracha sauce?
I am a great fan of hot sauces. Usually, they advertise what pepper they are using.
I cannot find that type of information on the Sriracha bottle I have at home. The only information I have is "chili"...
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Can I cook my tandoori chicken in the marinade for a sauce?
I'm cooking tandoori chicken and I was wondering if I can cook the chicken in the marinade to make a sauce.
Marinade:
300ml Greek yogurt
Ginger
Garlic
Masala seasoning
Turmeric
Cumin
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All fried rice recipes seem to have the same toned down interpretation
I have been trying to recreate the fried rice from a restaurant that I loved before moving. They were a Japanese steak house (called the Iron Chef), the type that cooks in front of you, and they made ...
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Vegan Alternative to Monte au Beurre?
I was just in my kitchen making pasta and a wild thought appeared when I mounted my sauce:
Can I do a vegan monte? What alternatives could provide the same bind and richness?
Been looking for a ...
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How do I make my curries saucier?
So I've made curry a few times before but I've always had a problem with the sauce. So before I try and make one again I want to know, how do you make the sauce thick and flavourful rather than almost ...
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What kind of sauce did I “invent”?
One day I had an idea for a special "sauce" to use on (chicken) burgers. The basic idea was to give it some sort of "salad dressing" like taste.
The basic ingredients are cream cheese, mustard, ...
