Hunter sauce
The hunter sauce ( Sauce chasseur ) is a strong mushroom sauce of the classic kitchen. It is served with fried beef , game or schnitzel .
preparation
For preparation, mushrooms and shallots are sautéed in butter, topped up with white wine and reduced , then cooked with a brown base sauce and refined with butter and parsley . In a variant by Auguste Escoffier , brandy and tomato sauce are also used.
Variants, industrial products
A hunter's sauce also seasoned with garlic is called Marengo sauce . As a further variant, hunter's sauce is also prepared with cream , which gives it a lighter color and a different taste.
The hunters sauce is similar to the Zigeunersauce today usually greatly simplified the public in only one or modified variant known since it mostly as partially ready for consumption industrially produced or convenience product to food stalls , in canteens or other simple dining establishments to chips , burgers or French fries offered becomes.
literature
- Richard Hering , Walter Bickel (Hrsg.): Herings Lexicon of the kitchen . 18th, revised edition. Specialized book publisher Dr. Pfanneberg, & Co., Giessen 1978, ISBN 3-8057-0218-3 , pp. 49, 51
- Auguste Escoffier: A Guide to Modern Cooking . Reprint of 1907 English edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, ISBN 1-108-06350-0 , page 25