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mushroom sauce

n. brown sauce and sauteed mushrooms

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Mushroom sauce

In cooking mushroom sauce is sauce with mushrooms as the primary ingredient, often cream-based. It may served with veal, poultry or pasta, as well as other foods such as vegetables or risotto.

It is made with mushrooms, butter, cream, white wine (some variations may use a mellow red wine) and pepper with a wide variety of variations possible with additional ingredients such as garlic, lemon juice, flour (to thicken the sauce), grated parmesan cheese, saffron, basil or other herbs. It is a variety of allemande sauce.

Some sources also suggest pairing mushroom sauce with fish.

Usage examples of "mushroom sauce".

The forest bustards had been cooked in a mushroom sauce and were deliciousand the goblet proved to be full of the best mint wine, incredibly clear and heady.

The forest bustards had been cooked in a mushroom sauce and were delicious-and the goblet proved to be full of the best mint wine, incredibly clear and heady.

For the main course, he ordered flaelesteg, roast pork served with crackling and cabbage, for himself, and morbradbof, small pork fillets in mushroom sauce, for Therri.

He savored the buttery mushroom sauce, then grudgingly nudged the platter toward Ajidica to offer his guest a morsel.

Having learned at an early age to improvise meals, she made an artichoke and mushroom sauce to put over pasta and ate leisurely though sparingly, her stomach still upset from the previous days' events.

Jackson had helped himself to a slice of the tepid filet which the mournful butler had handed him with a look as sceptical as his own, and had rejected the mushroom sauce after a scarcely perceptible sniff.

Next time, maybe I'll serve some steak with amanita mushroom sauce—.