Sauce Recipes

In cooking, a sauce is liquid, cream, or semi-solid food served on or used in preparing other foods. Sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to another dish. Sauce is a French word taken from the Latin salsa, meaning salted. Possibly the oldest sauce recorded is garum, the fish sauce used by the Ancient Greeks.

Sauces need a liquid component, but some sauces (for example, pico de gallo salsa or chutney) may contain more solid components than liquid. Sauces are an essential element in cuisines all over the world.

Sauces may be used for sweet or savory dishes. They may be prepared and served cold, like mayonnaise, prepared cold but served lukewarm like pesto, cooked and served warm like bechamel or cooked and served cold like apple sauce. Sauces may be freshly prepared by the cook, especially in restaurants, but today many sauces are sold premade and packaged like Worcestershire sauce, HP Sauce, soy sauce or ketchup. Sauces for salad are called salad dressing. Sauce made by deglazing a pan are called pan sauces.

A cook who specializes in making sauces is called a saucier.

Anchovy essence

Avgolemono

Barbecue sauce

Bread sauce

Capital sauce

Cocktail sauce

Coffee sauce

Coulis

Duck sauce

Egusi sauce

Fry sauce

Halvaytar

Mahyawa

Mignonette sauce

Mint sauce

Mushroom ketchup

Normande sauce

Pan sauce

Peppercorn sauce

Rainbow sauce

Romesco

Salad dressing

Salsa (salsa roja)

Satzibeli

Sauce andalouse

Sauce aurore

Sauce bercy

Sauce poulette

Sauce vin blanc

Sofrito

Sour cream sauce

Steak sauce

Sweet chilli sauce

Tomato sauce

Vinaigrette

Whipped cream

Wine sauce

Worcestershire sauce