Meunière sauce minute" after the fish has been removed by adding fresh butter, parsley, and lemon. Meunière sauce is a variation on a brown butter sauce. While there is general agreement on the addition of parsley and lemon, some chefs have been known to include ingredients such as Worcestershire sauce, red wine vinegar, or beef stock. Another common variation is to use pecans rather than almonds in an "amandine". "Trout meunière" and its variation "Trout amandine" (speckled seatrout crusted in almonds, traditionally served with a meunière sauce) are bedrock dishes of New Orleans Creole cuisine. The abundance of seafood from the nearby
French sauce spoon resorting to tipping the plate; the notch in the bowl is variously claimed to allow oil or fat to drain away from the sauce, or to be a reference to the notch in a fish knife. Originally invented in France at the restaurant Lasserre in 1950 (chef René Lasserre) as the "cuillère à sauce individuelle" (individual sauce spoon) and originally found mainly in France, French sauce spoons are increasingly popular in high-end restaurants elsewhere. French sauce spoon A French sauce spoon or saucier spoon is a spoon that is typically the size and shape of a dessert spoon, but with