List of sauces
The following is a list of notable culinary and prepared sauces used in cooking and food service.
General
- – Creamy sauce accompanies with seafood
- – a velouté sauce flavored with tomato
- – prepared using mushrooms and lemon
Prepared sauces
By type
Brown sauces
include:Butter sauces
- – Butter emulsified with water
- Beurre noisette – Brown butter sauce
Emulsified sauces
Fish sauces
Green sauces
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Tomato sauces
Hot sauces
- Pepper sauces
- Mustard sauces
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- Chile pepper-tinged sauces
- Condiments made from hot sauce include:
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Meat-based sauces
Pink sauces
- See Pink sauce
Sauces made of chopped fresh ingredients
- Miti - sauce common throughout Polynesia by mixing salt water with chunks of young coconut flesh and other aromatics to ferment and later puree
- Latin American Salsa cruda of various kinds
Sweet sauces
- not liquid, but called a sauce nonetheless
White sauces
By region
Africa
Sauces in African cuisine include:Asia
East Asian sauces
Sauces in East Asian cuisine include:File:Korean.cuisine-Choganjang-01.jpg|thumb|upright|Choganjang, a Korean sauce prepared with the base ingredients of ganjang and vinegar
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- , or Japanese pickled plum sauce, a thick sauce from a fruit called a plum in English but which is closer to an apricot
- – a way of cooking in Japan, a branch of sauces in North America
Southeast Asian sauces
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Caucasus
Mediterranean
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Middle East
- Cacık – Yogurt sauce or dip found in Turkey, Iran, and Greece
Polynesian
- Miti - sauce made from fermented young coconut flesh
South America
By country
Argentina
Sauces in Argentine cuisine include:Sauces in the cuisine of Barbados include:
Belgium
- Andalouse sauce – a mildly spiced sauce made from mayonnaise, tomatoes and peppers
- Brasil sauce – mayonnaise with pureed pineapple, tomato and spices
- – A "gypsy" sauce of tomatoes, paprika and chopped bell peppers, borrowed from Germany
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
- Salsa Americana – Chilean relish made of pickles, pickled onions, and pickled carrots
China
- Light soy sauce – a lighter-colored salty-flavored sauce used for seasoning and not as a dipping sauce
- Dark soy sauce – a darker-colored sauce used for color
- Seasoned soy sauce – usually light soy sauce seasoned with herbs, spices, sugar, or other sauces
- Sweet bean sauce – a thick savory paste
- Oyster sauce
- Fermented bean curd – usually cubes of tofu, and sometimes other spices and seasonings, which are used as a condiment or marinade along with some of the brine
- Douchi – fermented black beans, usually in a brine
- Cooking wine
- Black vinegar
- Cha Shao sauce
- Duo Jiao - chili sauce.
- Ci Ba La - a chili sauce.
- Zao La - a chili sauce.
- Lao Guo La - a chili sauce. One famous brand is Lao Gan Ma.
- Rib sauce
- Chili oil – usually made by pouring hot oil that's been seasoned with spices onto ground chili flakes and left to steep
- Doubanjiang – a mix of fermented beans, chilis, salt, and flour used for flavor and color
- Soy bean Paste / Yellow bean paste
- Fish sauce
- Garlic chive flower sauce
- Guaiwei
- Haixian sauce
- Plum sauce
- Sesame oil
- Sesame Paste
- Mala
- Shao Kao sauce – a thick, savory, slightly spicy BBQ sauce generally known as the primary barbecue sauce used within Chinese and Cantonese cuisine.
- Shacha sauce – A sauce or paste that is used as a base for soups, hotpot, as a rub, stir fry seasoning and as a component for dipping sauces.
- Soy sauce paste
- White vinegar
- XO sauce – a spicy seafood sauce that originated from Hong Kong.
- Yongfeng chili sauce
- Yuxiang
Colombia
Denmark
Sauces in Danish cuisine include:- – a key ingredient in the Danish national dish Stegt flæsk med persillesovs
England
- Bread sauce
- Halford Leicestershire Table Sauce
- Worcestershire sauce
- Tewkesbury mustard
- HP Sauce
France
- Allemande – Veal stock, veal velouté, lemon juice, mushrooms and egg yolks.
- Américaine – Mayonnaise, blended with puréed lobster and mustard.
- Béarnaise – Reduction of chopped shallots, pepper, tarragon and vinegar, with egg yolks and melted butter.
- Bercy – Chopped shallots, butter and white wine, with either fish stock or meat stock.
- Béchamel – milk-based sauce, thickened with a white roux.
- Beurre blanc – Reduction of butter, vinegar, white wine and shallots.
- Beurre maître d'hôtel – Fresh butter kneaded with chopped parsley, pepper and lemon juice.
- Beurre noir – Browned butter with lemon juice/vinegar and parsley; traditionally served with raie.
- Beurre noisette – Lightly browned butter with lemon juice.
- Beurre vert – Butter mixed with the juice extracted from spinach.
- Bordelaise – Chopped shallots, pepper, herbs, cooked in red wine and mixed with demi-glace.
- Bourguignonne – Chopped shallots, herbs and mushroom trimmings reduced in red wine and meat stock.
- Bigarade sauce – an orange sauce, commonly for duck à l'orange.
- Bretonne – Two forms: chopped onions, butter, white wine tomatoes, garlic and parsley; julienne of leeks, celery, mushrooms and onions cooked slowly in butter and mixed with fish velouté.
- Charcutière – Sauce Robert garnished with gherkins.
- Chasseur – Minced mushrooms, butter, shallots and parsley with red wine and demi-glace.
- Demi-glace – A brown sauce, generally the basis of other sauces, made of beef or veal stock, with carrots, onions, mushrooms and tomatoes.
- Espagnole sauce – a fortified brown veal stock sauce.
- Genevoise sauce - A brown sauce made with fish fumet, mirepoix, red wine, and butter usually accompanied with fish.
- Gribiche – Mayonnaise with hard-boiled eggs, mustard, capers and herbs.
- Hollandaise – Vinegar, crushed peppercorns, butter, egg yolks and lemon juice.
- Lyonnaise – Fried onions with white wine and vinegar reduced and mixed with demi-glace.
- Mayonnaise – Egg yolks with vinegar or lemon juice, beaten with oil.
- Nantua – Diced vegetables, butter, fish stock, white wine, cognac and tomatoes.
- Périgueux – Demi-glace, chopped truffles and madeira.
- Poivrade – Diced vegetables with herbs, with demi-glace.
- Ravigote – Reduction of white wine and vinegar with velouté and shallot butter, garnished with herbs.
- Rémoulade – Mayonnaise seasoned with mustard and anchovy essence, garnished with chopped capers, gherkins, tarragon and chervil.
- Robert – Chopped onions in butter, with white wine, vinegar, pepper, cooked in demi-glace and finished with mustard.
- Rouennaise – Thin bordelaise mixed with puréed raw duck livers, gently cooked, finished with a reduction of red wine and shallots.
- Rouille – Garlic, pimento and chilli pepper sauce, traditionally served with fish soup.
- Soubise – Onion sauce. Versions include béchamel and cooked chopped onions and onions and rice in white stock, reduced to paste and blended with butter and cream.
- Tartare – Cold sauce of mayonnaise with hard-boiled egg yolks, with onions and chives.
- Tomate – a tomato-based sauce.
- Velouté – white stock-based sauce, thickened with a roux or a liaison.
- Vénitienne – White wine with a reduction of tarragon vinegar, shallots and chervil, finished with butter.
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