Cream sauce

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Chanterelles in cream sauce

Cream sauce (also called cream sauce ) are warm basic sauces refined with cream or cream . The French technical term is sauce à la crème . Both brown and light cream sauces can be made: adding cream turns a béchamel or velouté sauce into a light cream sauce, and a brown concentrated sauce turns into a brown cream sauce or cream sauce, while a poultry base sauce becomes the sauce suprême arises.

Sometimes the term "cream sauce" (also called cream sauce ) is used, but this can also refer to a derivation of the cold basic sauce mayonnaise .

According to the guideline for the assessment of soups and sauces of the BLL , cream and cream sauces contain at least 30 g / l milk fat from cream (cream); if this is not reached, the lower milk fat content is sufficiently indicated. For finished products in powder or paste form, a content of at least 20 g / l milk fat from cream (cream) is usual.

Are you steamed julienne vegetables in the cream sauce, you get a Esterhazy sauce that one supplemented with lemon and capers.

Individual evidence

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