Lemongrass Butter Sauce Beurre Blanc Recipes

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon of butter in a saucepan and add the shallots. Cook briefly, stirring, and add the vinegar and wine. Cook until the liquid is almost totally reduced.
• Add the heavy cream and salt and bring to the boil. Add the pieces of butter, a few at a time, stirring rapidly with a wire whisk.

Steps:

• Heat oil in nonstick pan. Over low heat, saute leek, shallots, garlic, mushrooms, lemon grass and lime leaf. Cook for a few minutes, stopping before ingredients begin to take on color. Add wine, bring to a boil and reduce by two-thirds. Add fish stock and reduce by two-thirds.
• Add cream, and simmer for 10 minutes; strain sauce. Clean pot or use fresh one. Return strained sauce to pot, and return to heat. Add a tablespoon of butter at a time to lightly boiling sauce, whisking until butter is incorporated. Season with cayenne, and serve over won tons.

Steps:

• In a heavy 2-quart saucepan, combine vinegar, wine, shallots, lemon, and bay leaves to make an infusion. Simmer over medium heat for 5 to 8 minutes until the mixture is reduced to a wet paste, about 2 tablespoons. Add the cream and continue to simmer until reduced again to about 2 tablespoons. Cream is added to make the sauce more stable and less likely to separate.
• Reduce the heat to low and remove the bay leaves. Whisk in the chunks of butter in small batches. The butter should melt without the sauce getting too hot, producing a creamy emulsified sauce. Do not let the sauce go over 130 degrees F, where it will separate. If the sauce starts to break, remove from heat, add 2 ice cubes and whisk until it cools down and comes back together. Season with salt and pepper, fold in the chives, and serve immediately. Keep covered in a warm place for a few hours, if needed.
• Serve with fish or vegetables.

Steps:

• In a 1 1/2 quart saucepan combine vinegar, wine, shallots, salt and white pepper and bring to a simmer.
• Gently simmer liquid until reduced to 1 1/2 tablespoons. Remove from heat and immediately swirl or whisk in 2 pieces of chilled butter. As the butter is incorporated into the liquid add another piece and continue to swirl or whisk. Return pan to low heat and while constantly swirling or whisking add successive pieces of butter. When all of the butter has been added remove from heat. Sauce will be thick and creamy. Adjust seasoning to taste. Serve immediately. To hold the sauce, set the pan in a larger pan of lukewarm water. If the sauce separates, transfer a spoonful of the sauce to a cold mixing bowl and gradually whisk the rest of the sauce in by the spoonful. The sauce can be reheated by gradually whisking 2 to 3 tablespoons of hot liquid, i.e. water, cream or stock.

Steps:

• Cook the hot sauce in a saucepan over medium-high heat until reduced to a syrupy consistency, whisking constantly to avoid burning.
• Whisk in the cream and reduce the heat to low.
• Add the butter a few pieces at a time, whisking constantly to incorporate completely after each addition.
• Cook until completely smooth, whisking constantly to keep the mixture from breaking.
• Serve.

Steps:

• Place the shallots in a saucepan with the vanilla bean, wine and vinegar.
• Bring to a boil and reduce mixture until 1/4 cup of liquid is left.
• Add 2 tablespoons of heavy cream and bring mixture back to a boil.
• Add the butter, cut into pieces, and mix with a whisk until mixture thickens.
• Remove from heat.
• Remove vanilla bean and scrape the seeds into the mixture.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.

Steps:

• Bring to a boil in a small heavy-bottomed pot: 2 shallots, diced fine, 1/4 cup white wine vinegar, 1/2 cup dry white wine, A few black peppercorns, A pinch of salt.
• Cook until the liquid is almost completely gone (as the liquid gets low, reduce the heat). Remove from the heat when the shallots are still moist but not floating in liquid. (This step can be done far in advance.) Put the pan over a very low heat. Bit by bit, whisk in: 14 tablespoons (1 3/4 sticks) butter, cut into small pieces.
• Wait until each addition is mostly melted and incorporated before adding more. Monitor the heat; the sauce should be warm while the butter is being added but not hot or the sauce will separate. Oddly enough it will also separate if the sauce gets too cool while the butter is being added. Once all the butter has been incorporated, taste for salt and add more as needed. Thin with a splash of fresh wine, some broth, or even water; the added liquid helps keep the sauce from breaking or separating and makes it lighter. Strain if desired. Serve immediately or keep warm in a double boiler over warm, but not hot, water, or in a warmed thermos.
• Flavor the sauce with chopped herbs, capers, or nasturtiums.
• Add whole spices, such as coriander or fennel seeds, along with the peppercorns.
• A simpler sauce can be made by putting 3 table spoons wine, lemon juice, or even water in a pan, bringing to a boil, and swirling or whisking in 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter, cut into small pieces, and a pinch of salt.