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ménagère
home style sauce
Ménagère is household, and since all households are different, sauce ménagère can mean a number of things. Sauce blanche de la ménagère or sauce bâtarde (a roux with water, egg yolks and lemon) is what one might prepare at home as a lighter version of hollandaise or mousseline to go with artichokes or fish.
A sauce ménagère can also be a roux mixed with the stock of a dish, with the addition of herbs, and sometimes cornichons and crème fraîche.
Text © Dana Facaros
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