Sauce bourguignonne Sauce bourguignonne Sauce bourguignonne , Bourguignonne sauce, is a French sauce with a base of red wine with onions or shallots, a "bouquet garni "(parsley, thyme and bay leaf), reduced, strained, and mixed with some espagnole sauce. Just before serving it is mounted with butter and seasoned lightly with cayenne pepper. Like all red wine sauces, it may have some mushrooms added during cooking to enrich the flavour. When the sauce is used to accompany sautéed meat or poultry, it is made directly in the sauté pan in which these items were cooked. The onions or shallots are sautéed in
Béarnaise sauce the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in southwestern France. Like Hollandaise sauce, there are several methods for the preparation of Béarnaise sauce. The most common preparation is a "bain-marie" method where a reduction of vinegar is used to acidulate the yolks. Escoffier calls for a reduction of wine, vinegar, shallots, fresh chervil, fresh tarragon and crushed peppercorns (later strained out), with fresh tarragon and chervil to finish instead of lemon juice. Others are similar. Alternatively, the flavorings may be added to a finished Hollandaise ("sans" lemon juice). "Joy of Cooking" describes a blender preparation with the same ingredients. A "faux" Béarnaise can