Bordelaise Sauce Recipes

CLASSIC FRENCH BORDELAISE SAUCE

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• In a small saucepan, place the red wine, shallots, thyme, and bay leaf and set over medium heat.
• Bring the mixture to a rolling boil and continue to cook to reduce the contents to half of the original volume.
• Add the beef stock to the pan and bring the mixture up to a boil again.
• Using a tablespoon, skim and discard any foam that appears on top of the sauce.
• Continue cooking the Bordelaise by another 50% or until it has thickened enough to coat the back of a spoon-otherwise known as having a nappe consistency. In total, the Bordelaise should have reduced by 75% of its original volume by now.
• Pour the sauce through a fine-mesh sieve.
• Season the sauce with salt and pepper, to taste. Use on grilled steak or slow-roasted beef and enjoy.

HOW TO MAKE BORDELAISE SAUCE

Steps:

• Place butter and shallots into a saucepan with pinch of salt; cook and stir shallots over medium-low heat until caramelized and browned, about 20 minutes. Stir occasionally. Add red wine and bring to a simmer.
• Reduce heat to low; cook until wine is nearly evaporated and pan juices are thick and slightly syrupy. Watch carefully, mixture burns easily. Add veal stock, return to a simmer, and cook until reduced by half and sauce is slightly thickened, about 10 minutes.
• Pour sauce through a fine mesh strainer set over a container. Tap the strainer with a spoon while straining and squeeze out the last remaining drops of sauce from the residue. Season sauce to taste with salt and black pepper.

BORDELAISE SAUCE

Steps:

• Place the wine in a saucepan and reduce by 3/4. Add, shallots, peppercorns, bay leaf, thyme and demi-glace. Simmer for 15 to 20 minutes and strain. Swirl in 2 ounces of butter. Use as a sauce over your meat of choice.

BORDELAISE SAUCE

Steps:

• In 1 1/2-quart saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Cook onion slice in butter, stirring constantly, until onion is brown; discard onion.
• Stir flour into butter. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until flour is bubbly and deep brown; remove from heat.
• Gradually stir in broth and wine. Stir in thyme, parsley, finely chopped onion and bay leaf. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly; boil and stir 1 minute. Stir in salt and pepper. Remove bay leaf before serving.

BORDELAISE SAUCE WITH MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in the garlic and shallot, and cook until the shallot has softened and turned translucent, about 3 minutes. Add the remaining 3 tablespoons of butter, then stir in the mushrooms once the butter has melted. Cook and stir the mushrooms until they begin to soften, about 5 minutes.
• Pour in the beef broth, wine, and Worcestershire sauce; season with the bay leaf and thyme, and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Once simmering, season to taste with salt and pepper, reduce the heat to medium-low, and continue to cook, uncovered until the sauce reduces slightly, about 30 minutes. Dissolve the cornstarch in the cold water, and stir into the simmering sauce until thickened. Remove the bay leaf before serving.

BORDELAISE SAUCE

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine wine, shallot, thyme, and bay leaf.
• Bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer briskly, uncovered, for 5 minutes or until reduced by one-half.
• Remove bay leaf and discard.
• Combine beef broth and cornstarch.
• Stir into wine mixture.
• Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly, then cook and stir 1 to 2 minutes more.
• Add butter, lemon juice, parsley, and pepper.
• Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 5 minutes.
• Serve over roasted potatoes or whatever meat you choose. I typically serve with chicken.

BORDELAISE SAUCE

Steps:

• Make a bouquet garni: Tie parsley, thyme, and bay leaf in a small square of cheesecloth. Season meat with salt and pepper. Heat oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat, just until beginning to smoke. Add meat and sear until brown, about 3 minutes per side. Add shallots, garlic, and bouquet garni, and cook until shallots are translucent, about 3 minutes.
• Add red wine, and bring to a boil, scraping any browned bits from the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Cook until liquid is dark and syrupy and reduced by one-third, about 10 minutes.
• Add veal stock, and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer, and cook, skimming as necessary, until the liquid has reduced by two-thirds, about 40 minutes. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve. Store, refrigerated, in an airtight container for up to 1 week or frozen for up to 3 months.

BORDELAISE SAUCE

Steps:

• In a small pot, sweat mushrooms, garlic, carrot and shallots until soft.
• Add parsley, thyme bay leaf and wine and cook- stirring- until all liquid evaporates (do NOT boil!).
• Add veal stock and continue cooking. Stir constantly until liquid is reduced by half.
• Add peppercorns and continue to reduce until sauce is of desired consistency.
• Strain through sieve. Discard solids.
• Keep warm until ready to serve.
• Divide sauce among 8 plates and place one grilled rib-eye steak on top of sauce.
• Savor the flavor!

A CHEAT'S BORDELAISE SAUCE

Steps:

• Pour the olive oil into a large saucepan, place over medium-high heat and add the shallot and garlic and then the thyme and bay leaf. Cook until the shallots are light brown, then add the wine, lower the heat and simmer until reduced to about 1/2 cup.
• Add the pan drippings from the chops or the demi-glace if you have it. Simmer for an additional 5 to 10 minutes and then strain into a clean saucepan. Return to medium heat until warm and whisk in the butter and season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve immediately drizzled over the pork chops.

SAUCE BORDELAISE

Steps:

• Reduce 1 cup red wine, with shallot, bay leaf, and thyme to 2 oz. Add brown sauce and simmer 10 minutes. Strain through a fine sieve and whisk in 2 Tblsp whole butter. Garnish with optional poached marrow.

WHITE BORDELAISE SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a 3-quart heavy saucepan over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then reduce heat to moderate and cook onion and garlic, stirring, until onion is softened, about 2 minutes. Add Port, white wine, and bay leaf and boil until liquid is reduced to about 2 tablespoons, about 8 minutes. Add chicken stock and boil until liquid is reduced to about 1 cup, about 18 minutes. Add demiglace and boil, stirring occasionally, until liquid is reduced to about 1 cup again, about 10 minutes.
• Pour sauce through a fine sieve into another saucepan, pressing on and discarding solids. Keep sauce warm, covered.