Incredible Sauce for Beef, Lamb, Chicken or Duck
Here’s another beautiful sauce to serve with meats and poultry using a demi-glace as a base and building off of it.
If you are not familiar with demi-glace, click on the link to learn more about it. It is the base ingredient for many of the most famous classic French sauces and a great addition to stews, braises and soups.
What's the Difference Between Beef/Veal Demi-Glace & Chicken Demi-Glace?
Classic demi-glace is made with a combination roasted beef and veal bones. It basically is a rich brown sauce with a few other ingredients that is reduced in half (demi). The sauces you prepare with demi-glace typically are served on beef, pork and lamb.
Chicken based demi-glace, also called Jus de Poulet Lie, is simply a rich brown chicken stock that is also reduced by half bound with starch to be used when you need a lighter sauce that won’t overpower what your are serving.
If you are preparing chicken, duck, veal or even some pork dishes, you may want a lighter chicken based sauce that adds flavor but is takeover the flavors of the meat.
Rosemary
Rosemary, native to the Mediterranean is an evergreen green shrub of the mint family. It is a woody, perennial herb with needle-like leaves.
Its name is derived from the Latin word rosmarinus, meaning “dew of the sea,” because it was found growing near the ocean. Rosemary can grow as high as six feet.
It sports tiny flowers which can be a myriad of colors such as white, blue, purple or pink. The edible leaves have a bittersweet, lemony and definitely piney flavor.
Restaurant Demi Glace and Jus de Poulet Lie Now Available Online
Both demi-glace and jus de poulet lie are now available as commercial products by a few manufacturers. This means you can make restaurant quality sauces like this peppercorn rosemary sauce in 30 minutes or less instead of the hours and hours it would take to make the demi glace from scratch.
📖 Recipe
Peppercorn Rosemary Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons shallots finely minced
- 1 ounce butter = ¼ stick
- 1 tablespoon peppercorns freshly ground
- 1 sprig fresh rosemary finely minced
- ¾ cup red wine
- 8 oz demi-glace or chicken based demi-glace
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Heat up a saucepan over medium heat. When hot, add the butter and shallots and sauté until the shallots are translucent - about 2 to 3 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the heat and deglaze it with the wine.
- Return the pan back to the heat, add the cracked peppercorns and rosemary. Cook until the wine is reduced by half.
- Add the demi glace or chicken based demi glace to the pan and stir or whisk to combine ingredients.
- Continue reducing the sauce down until it is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.
- Optional - some chefs like to strain their sauces through a fine meshed strainer or cheesecloth at this point to make their sauces more refined. I don't but it is entirely up to you.
- Taste the sauce and adjust seasonings with salt and pepper.
Notes
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.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.
Bill
Do you REALLY mean 8 oz. of demi-glace? That seems like a huge amount. I would expect something more like 2-3 T.
G. Stephen Jones
Bill, this recipe is for making 1 cup of rosemary peppercorn sauce so you need 1 cup of demi glace. If you are thinking about using a product like More Than Gourmet's Demi Glace Gold that gets reconstituted with water, you are correct. You would use approximately 1 1/2 ounces of the demi glace reduction and reconstitute it with 8 ounces of water. Hope that helps.
Erick
Very interesting looking forward to more tips.