Classic sauce recipes
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Classic sauce recipes
Simple béchamel sauce
Master this versatile white sauce recipe. It's the basis of lots of dishes including lasagne, macaroni cheese and croque monsieur.
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Sherry and mushroom sauce
A rich, full flavoured mushroom sauce recipe, this is ideal for pouring over roast beef or steak.
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Classic béarnaise sauce
This French béarnaise sauce recipe is perfect with steak and chips. Impress your friends and whip-up the real deal for guests.
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Michel Roux Jr’s beurre blanc
Make the best beurre blanc with this recipe from culinary legend Michel Roux Jr, owner of much-garlanded Le Gavroche and TV personality. Here he shares the perfect sauce and gives tips on how to get the perfect flavour.
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Michel Roux Jr’s mayonnaise
Make mayonnaise like a pro with this recipe from culinary legend Michel Roux Jr, owner of Le Gavroche and TV personality.
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Michel Roux Jr’s fish velouté
This fish velouté recipe from culinary legend Michel Roux Jr, owner of much gar-landed Le Gavroche and TV personality. Here he shares a perfect wine and cream fish sauce with us, which you can enjoy with sole, cod, monkfish or oily fish.
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Michel Roux Jr’s hollandaise
Learn how to make hollandaise like a pro with this recipe from culinary legend Michel Roux Jr, owner of much gar-landed Le Gavroche and TV personality. Here he shares the perfect sauce and gives tips on how to get the perfect consistency.
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Michel Roux Jr’s chicken jus
This chicken jus from Michel Roux Jr makes the ultimate sauce for a chicken supreme or chicken breast. The time it takes for the jus to reduce to the right consistency will depend on how gelatinous the stock is.
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Make-ahead Christmas sides
Make-ahead bread sauce
Give your Christmas meal a lift with this luxury homemade bread sauce. Bay leaves, garlic and onion bring the flavour.
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Christmas trimmings, sides and sauces
Simple bread sauce
No roast is complete without bread sauce, especially Christmas dinner. Learn how to make homemade bread sauce with our simple recipe.
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Freezable cranberry sauce
Homemade cranberry sauce is a winning accompaniment to roast turkey. To save time on Christmas Day, this sauce can be made ahead and frozen.
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Homemade dressings and sauces
Classic vinaigrette
Our oh-so-simple recipe for a classic vinaigrette is perfect with so many recipes including tuna niçoise, Caesar salad or our Chicken and bacon salad
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Mint sauce for lamb
Serve your roast lamb with an easy, and quick, mint sauce. This recipe is ready in minutes and freshly-made tastes better than shop-bought.
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Basic curry sauce
This curry sauce recipe can be frozen in batches and transformed into three different curries: Creamy chicken korma, Lamb rogan josh, and Prawn madras
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