Espagnole Mother Sauce

sauce espagnole, espagnole sauce

Espagnole sauce (french pronunciation: [ɛspaɲɔl] (listen)) is a basic brown sauce, and is one of auguste escoffier's five mother sauces of classic french cooking. escoffier popularized the recipe, and his version is still followed today.espagnole has a strong taste, and is rarely used directly on food. as a mother sauce, it serves as the starting point for many derivatives, such as sauce africaine, sauce bigarade, sauce bourguignonne, sauce aux champignons, sauce charcutière, sauce chasseur, sauce chevreuil, and demi-glace. hundreds of other derivatives are in the classical french repertoire. escoffier included a recipe for a lenten espagnole sauce, using fish stock and mushrooms, in le g...

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