sauce
sauce; savory sauce
Intermediate Noun Feminine
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Pronunciation
/sos/
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Cultural Note
Sauce-making is considered the highest art in French cuisine. Escoffier codified the five 'mother sauces' — béchamel, velouté, espagnole, hollandaise, and tomate — from which hundreds of derivative sauces are made. A 'saucier' is one of the most prestigious positions in a French kitchen brigade.
📝 Example Sentences
La sauce béarnaise accompagne parfaitement le steak.
Béarnaise sauce pairs perfectly with steak.
Il faut remuer la sauce sans arrêt pour éviter les grumeaux.
You have to stir the sauce constantly to avoid lumps.