How to Prepare a Delicious Mustard Tarragon Butter Sauce
Here you have a simple but delicious pan sauce that can be served with grilled boneless chicken breasts or a fresh piece of fish. The combination of mustard with chopped tarragon and butter works perfectly for preparing this extremely easy sauce.
Mustard Tarragon Butter Sauce Recipe
How to prepare Mustard Tarragon Butter Sauce
Servings: 4 - 6 servings
Ingredients
- 12 ounces chicken stock
- 3 tablespoons shallots minced
- 8 ounces butter unsalted, divided
- ½ cup dry vermouth
- ¼ cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon fresh tarragon chopped
- ½ teaspoon Dijon mustard
- salt and white pepper to taste
Instructions
- Reduce the chicken stock in a saucepan by one half.
- In another pan sauté the shallots in 1 ounce of the butter. Return the remaining butter to the fridge until needed.
- Add the vermouth and reduce to a syrupy consistency.
- Add the cream and reduce by half.
- Add the reduced chicken stock.
- Stir in the tarragon and mustard.
- Lower the heat and whisk in the remaining butter in increments until incorporated.
- Season with salt and white pepper.
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