Sauces are present in the cuisine of almost every nation. But not all of them passed the test of time and were able to reach the table of contemporaries. At the moment there are several basic sauces that will suit almost any dish. One of the best will be discussed in the article.
Types of Sauces
For cooking, a large number of various sauces are used. Most often, vegetables, cream and cheeses are taken to prepare the latter. Sauces using tomatoes and spices are quite popular, and creamy mushroom sauce has a special taste. It is prepared for meat, fish and mushroom dishes.
Sauce history
The appearance of the first sauce dates back to about 25 BC, but their heyday came in the second half of the past millennium. Recipes were invented before, but at that time proportions were not recorded, so sauces of that time did not have a clear recipe.
Despite the fact that they did not know how to cook dishes, they often became the authors of one or another sauce. For example, such a famous sauce as mayonnaise is associated with the name of Louis of Crillon, who, while in Spanish service, captured the city of Mahon. There, during the feast, a sauce was presented, which included eggs, lemon juice and olive oil. Subsequently, he received the name "mayonnaise", which is translated from French as "Mao".
In fact, the history of sauces is very ornate and interesting, but any of them is a mixture of several components that decorate the main course. Therefore, when cooking, you can apply imagination and create something new.
Cooking Method
Extraordinary tenderness and pleasant aroma belong to a creamy mushroom sauce. The recipe is quite simple and does not take much time. After cooking, it can be served with almost any food.
Also during cooking, you can influence the density of the product and structure. In some cases, the sauce is whipped with a blender to make it as uniform as possible.
Components for cooking:
- premium wheat flour - 25 grams;
- salt - half a teaspoon;
- butter - 60 grams;
- cream - 350 ml;
- bulb head medium - 1 pc.;
- unfrozen champignons - 100 grams;
- vegetable oil - 100 grams.
Using this amount of ingredients, the sauce is enough for about 7 dishes.
Cooking:
- Wash mushrooms, get rid of excess water in them. To do this, after washing, you can put them in a deep bowl, so that the excess water glass down, then drain it.
- Finely chop each mushroom. The smaller they are, the more they give away the juice and the richer the taste.
- Peel and finely chop the middle onion.
- Heat the pan, add vegetable oil to it and fry the onion on it until it turns yellow and becomes soft.
- Add the champignons, covering the pan with a lid, until all excess moisture has evaporated.
- Take another pan, melt butter on it and carefully pour 25 grams of flour and mix thoroughly. In order for the sauce to be cream-colored, you need to fry the flour, and only then add the butter. If a thinner sauce is required, then a portion of flour can be reduced by 2-3 times.
- Add cream to the resulting mixture, mix. The hotplate should be slightly heated, boiling should be avoided.
- Combine the mushrooms and onions with the flour mixture and heat for about five minutes. If the sauce is very thick, add a little milk and cook for another two minutes.
Creamy mushroom sauce is ready. The dish can only be poured into a special container for sauces and served.
Which mushrooms to choose?
A big plus of this sauce is that it uses both wild mushrooms and purchased mushrooms, for example. If possible, it is much better to purchase fresh forest, as they have a more rich taste and dense structure.
If it is not possible to purchase them, then it is quite possible to get along with fresh champignons. They have less pronounced saturation. But the creamy mushroom sauce of champignons will be very similar in taste to wild mushrooms. Last but not least, frozen champignons or oyster mushrooms should be purchased. Their minus is that during defrosting they lose a lot of water and the taste sensations from the sauce will be worse.
Chicken Sauce
Sometimes it happens that you want to cook something restaurant, but do not spend a lot of money. Then help comes the chicken recipe in a creamy mushroom sauce. Everything you need for it can be found in almost any store.
Necessary components:
- mushrooms, preferably champignons. They will need about 150-200 grams;
- about half a kilo of chicken;
- fat cream about 300 ml, fat content over 20%;
- fat sour cream - 50 grams;
- mustard - about 15 grams;
- large onion;
- butter - one tablespoon;
- salt with pepper;
- garlic - 10 grams.
For beauty, you can add a sprig of dill and parsley.
Cooking:
- Cut the chicken into large slices, sprinkle with salt and pepper. If salt and pepper do not stick well to meat, then you need to add a little vegetable oil.
- Heat the pan, add sunflower oil and a little butter.
- Put chopped chicken in a hot frying pan, fry until beautiful golden color.
- Set aside chicken, it should cool slightly. Oil should be left after frying.
- Cut the mushrooms into medium pieces, then cut the whole onion into very small pieces.
- Crush the garlic with the flat side of the knife.
- In the oil left after frying the chicken, put crushed garlic and add more butter, fry and discard it.
- Throw onions in a pan with mushrooms.
- Wait until the mixture turns golden, reduce the heating power.
- Pour in cream, add sour cream, mustard and some spices.
- Shuffle what happened.
- You should monitor the future creamy mushroom sauce so that it does not boil. Stir as often as possible.
- Add pieces of previously cooked chicken, close the lid and simmer for several minutes. The sauce must be constantly stirred so that it does not curl.
- After 10-15 minutes, the stove can be turned off.
The dish is ready. Now it can be served.
Chicken Recipe
To prepare chicken creamy mushroom sauce, you will need almost the same components as in the previous recipe. But there are slight differences in the method of preparation.
For the recipe you will need:
- mushrooms - 900 grams;
- sour cream - 200 grams;
- milk - 250 ml;
- onions - 150 grams;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- chicken fillet - half a kilogram.
This volume of food is enough for about five servings.
Recipe:
- Rinse the chicken thoroughly and cut into very small pieces, you can even put the meat through a meat grinder.
- Put carrots with onions in a hot pan and fry with butter until yellow.
- Cut the mushrooms into large pieces and add to the pan.
- Pour milk, sour cream and leave to simmer at low power for about half an hour.
Creamy mushroom sauce with chicken is ready. It can be served to the table by pouring into a saucepan.
Spaghetti Recipe
Most often, it is pasta that becomes a side dish for such sauces. In this recipe all the ingredients will be indicated so that the sauce goes perfectly with spaghetti.
Components:
- soy sauce - 50 ml;
- garlic - 2 heads;
- cream with a low fat content - 250 ml;
- champignons or any other mushrooms - 900 grams;
- sunflower oil - 50 ml;
- spaghetti - half a kilogram.
Recipe:
- Rinse the mushrooms, remove excess moisture from them, cut into large pieces.
- Fry them in vegetable oil for about five minutes over high heat. They should darken and acquire a golden hue.
- Pour soy sauce with cream into them, constantly stirring. This process should take at least five minutes.
- Add seasonings and garlic at the end.
- At the same time, spaghetti in a pan with boiling salted water. Cook at medium power for about 15 minutes.
Creamy mushroom sauce for spaghetti is ready, it can be served at the table. Usually it is watered on top of the main course.
Sauce Dishes
Most often, the basis for dishes that are served with sauces, in addition to meat, fish and poultry, are flour products. It is with them that the sauce is revealed more fully. Therefore, pasta in creamy mushroom sauce will be much tastier than rice or buckwheat with it.
For such a sauce, it is preferable to choose varieties of pasta from durum wheat. Such products are much tastier and retain their appearance and taste for longer.