If you are looking for a great sauce to serve with steak, pork tenderloin or duck, look no further. This Dried Cherry Cognac Sauce is easy to prepare and has magnificent flavor.
How to Prepare Dried Cherry Cognac Sauce
Cognac is a type of brandy from the Cognac region of France and considered by many to be the most exquisite. Nevertheless, you can substitute a standard brandy for the cognac in this recipe.
Best served with:
- Beef
- Pork
- Duck
Dried Cherry Cognac Sauce
Servings: 6 servings
Ingredients
- 4 ounces dried cherries
- ¾ cup Cognac or Brandy
- 1 cup demi glace
- ½ cup heavy cream
- salt & pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoons butter cold
Instructions
- Place dried cherries in a bowl.
- Warm the cognac in a saucepan on low heat.
- Pour warm cognac over the dried cherries. Allow the cherries to soak for a minimum of 8 hours, but preferably up to 24 hours.
- Place the reconstituted cherries with any remaining cognac in a food processor and process until smooth.
- Bring the demi glace to a boil and reduce by half.
- Add the processed cherry mixture, heavy cream, salt and pepper. Bring up to a simmer; remove from heat.
- Whisk the cold butter into the mixture.
My Top Choices for Demi Glace
Online Sources: Demi Glace
For those of you who do not want to make demi glace at home.
Demi glace is the most important ingredient for making classic "restaurant quality" brown sauces. All the great French brown sauces use demi glace. But it can also be used in soups, stews and braises. It's something you can make at home but it takes a long, long time to do it right and if you make one mistake, it can easily be ruined. Lucky for us, there are now some great sources for commercial grade demi glace and I want to share a few with you now. Everyone has their preferences so I suggest you give each a try to find out which product you like best.Savory Choice's Demi Glace
Ready in minutes, Savory Choice beef demi glace allows home chefs to deliver impressive restaurant-quality meals quickly and cost-effectively. Professional chefs typically take at least 24 hours to prepare this traditional reduction sauce by simmering stock, vegetables, wine and spices to a velvety consistency.Rich, natural, gluten free and Trans fat free Savory Choice demi glace opens up a world of new possibilities for exquisite home-cooked meals. Use on steaks, lamb and pork dishes, or a base for stews, soups and gravies. For braising pot roasts and short ribs, add contents of pouch to ½ gallon of water and simmer in crock pot until meat is fork tender. Convenience has never tasted so luxurious.
More Than Gourmet's Demi Glace Gold
One of my first commercial demi glace products and still one of my favorites. For almost 25 years, More Than Gourmet has been the gold standard for flavor and quality when it comes to sauces, stock, and soup. This product comes in 1 pound tubs and 1.5 ounce pucks and even bigger sizes if you are a commercial establishment. I like buying 6 of the pucks at a time unless I'm doing a big party and need the pounder.
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