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: (Rosmarinus officinalis) is an aromatic herb with needle-like leaves that belongs to the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Mediterranean region but is now cultivated in many parts of the world. Rosemary is known for its distinctive fragrance, flavorful leaves, and various culinary and medicinal uses.
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 fee. 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.
Shallots: Shallots are a type of onion that belongs to the Allium family, which also includes garlic, onions, and leeks. They have a milder and sweeter flavor compared to regular onions, making them a popular choice in various culinary dishes. Shallots are characterized by their small size, elongated shape, and thin, coppery-brown papery skin.
📖 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
Some of My Favorite Sauce Recipes
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.