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.
Nuoc Mam Cham Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Vietnamese cooking class inspired by Mark Jensen! https://youtu.be/aQCp4u3QVGo Fish sauce is the essential condiment in Vietnamese cooking, as salt and pepper are in the west. A bottle sits on the table at every meal and at its simplest it’s poured straight from that bottle. A […]
Sambal Goreng (Fried Chilli Paste) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Singaporean cooking class! https://youtu.be/IHdQF4za4nw I love having good condiments on hand to add flavour to quick and easy meals. In Southeast Asia that’s often a sambal, and sambal goreng is one of the easiest and tastiest. Sambal means ‘chilli’ and goreng means ‘fried’ […]
Ocean Trout with Spicy Onion Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Italian cooking class featuring the food of Southern Italy! Cooking fish almost entirely on the skin protects the delicate flesh, keeping it moist and succulent. The skin usually ends up a bit charred and looking slightly the worse for wear, so I […]
Salmoriglio Join my food & wine tour to Southern Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! https://youtu.be/LhE0c5Ho3Pk Salmoriglio is a simple southern Italian sauce based on olive oil, lemon, garlic and herbs, traditionally oregano. Parsley is often included and sometimes a little finely chopped rosemary or thyme, some recipes add a little anchovy too. Most […]
Romesco Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Spanish cooking class! Originating in the region of Catalonia, romesco sauce is one of Spain’s most popular sauces with as many variations as there are cooks. It’s very versatile, especially popular with seafood but also delicious with poultry and red meat. The essential ingredients are nuts, […]
Alabama White Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online cooking class featuring the food of America’s Deep South! While Alabama white sauce is a classic barbecue sauce, it’s also delicious as a dipping sauce for fried food like chicken or fish. It makes a delicious salad dressing too (try it with coleslaw)! It originated […]
Coriander & Mint Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Indian cooking class inspired by Ajoy Joshi! This slightly spicy coriander & mint sauce is a riff on hari chutney, the traditional accompaniment to that colourful crunchy Indian street-side snack, chaat. My recipe is inspired by a sauce Ajoy Joshi serves at Nilgiri’s Indian […]
Prawns with Strange-flavoured Dressing Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Chinese cooking class! The odd name of this classic Sichuan sauce (also used in bang bang chicken) comes about because the combination of flavours is a strange one that shouldn’t work, yet does. Strange or not, the prawns with strange-flavoured dressing are in a […]
Prawns with Bottarga Butter Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Italian cooking class featuring the food of Sardinia! Prawns with bottarga butter is perfect for a quick and tasty dinner – even more so if you keep a roll of bottarga butter in the freezer! Use this recipe as inspiration for all sorts of […]
North Carolina-style BBQ Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online cooking class featuring the food of America’s Deep South! In the American South, barbecue sauce is as controversial a subject as the barbecue itself, perhaps even more so with regional variations being fiercely defended as the best, the original and the only sauce worth […]
