Sauces can make the simple sublime. Whether they’re sweet or savoury, basic or complex, based on butter, oil or purée, they dress our meat and vegetables to create a memorable dish. Here are my favourite sauce recipes.
Crème Anglaise (Vanilla Custard) Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes Crème Anglaise (a.k.a. vanilla custard) is a versatile pouring custard that’s typically served with fruit desserts, such as crumbles and pies, and often poured into sweet soufflés at the table. As the name suggests, French speakers consider […]
Dashi Soy Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Japanese cooking class Inspired by Hideo Dekura! While you can serve plain soy sauce alongside sushi, it can be quite salty. Master Sushi Chef Hideo Dekura introduced me to this more subtly flavoured dashi soy sauce blend (see video below). Dashi soy sauce is delicious […]
Tomato Sauce Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes A good tomato sauce is a basic in every Mediterranean cuisine. Use it to poach Lebanese stuffed zucchini, to dress a simple pasta or gnocchi, layer into eggplant Parmigiana or lasagne or add a pinch of hot smoked paprika […]
Laban Matboukh (Yoghurt Sauce) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! Cooked yoghurt sauces are popular in the Levant, Turkey and parts of Central Asia. Some are stabilised with cornflour, but Middle Eastern food expert Anissa Helou recommends egg, which I prefer as it gives a very stable result without changing the […]
How to Fix Broken Mayonnaise or Aïoli Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes One of my favourite kitchen hacks is knowing how to fix broken mayonnaise. If you’re making mayonnaise or aïoli and it breaks or splits it will look curdled with the oil separating from the […]
Whole Egg Mayonnaise Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes Mayonnaise, a simple emulsion of egg yolk and oil, is the base for many delicious sauces and dips, as well as being a great spread for sandwiches – and it’s so easy to make! Salt plus acid, in […]
Marie Rose Sauce (Seafood Cocktail Sauce) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Australian cooking class inspired by Matt Moran! I wish I could tell you the origin of Marie Rose sauce, but I haven’t found a convincing answer. It was popularised as a seafood cocktail sauce by British TV cook Fanny Cradock in the […]
Piri-Piri Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Portuguese cooking class! The piri-piri chilli (also written peri-peri or pili pili, as one word or two) was developed by the Portuguese in Mozambique and spread from there to their other territories; pilipili means ‘pepper’ in Swahili. These small hot chillies (similar to bird’s eye, which […]
Sambal Terasi Goreng Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Indonesian cooking class! Sambal terasi goreng is the most common of the many sambals found throughout Indonesia. Sambal means chilli sauce and terasi is Indonesia’s pungent shrimp paste, virtually identical to Malaysian belacan and similar to Thai gapi. Sambal terasi originated in Java, where it’s […]
Satay Sauce(Sambal Kacang) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Indonesian cooking class! This Indonesian satay sauce recipe was taught to me by chef Hasan Yeoh from Kko Kko Balinese restaurant. It makes a thick peanut paste that keeps in the fridge for a couple of months. When you’re ready to serve, mix it with […]
