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sauce velouté

Language: French

Description: "Velvety sauce." A sauce made with white stock such as chicken, thickened with flour. Essentially it is the same as béchamel sauce but with the milk replaced by stock. It also refers to a soup based on velouté sauce, finished with egg yolks and cream.


sauce velouté
Sauces based on velouté, with thanks to the unkown artist in Great Italian Cuisine by Luigi Carnacini

Gender: f
Ethnicity: French
Most frequent country: Widespread

See places: French food and cuisine

See foods and dishes: béchamel sauce

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