Recipes of sauces are created to enliven or complement even the most ordinary products and dishes. Sauces are a liquid seasoning for meat, fish, and vegetable dishes. It can be served separately in special saucers. In this case, the sauces will represent a cold appetizer.
Various salads and pasta are also seasoned with sauces. Tomato sauce is smeared on pizza, various side dishes are seasoned with sauces.
Sauces are intended, first of all, in order to enhance the taste qualities of a particular product, add juiciness to the dish, and also increase the calorie content.
How to Make the Sauce to Improve the Dish?
All kinds of spices are added to many sauces, including ground black pepper, garlic, red pepper, dill, parsley. In addition, the color of a particular sauce is also important in cooking. In many dishes, the sauce serves not only as a flavor enhancer, but also as a kind of adornment. For example, sour cranberry sauce of bright red color looks very picturesque on vanilla ice cream.
The most common types of sauce are: mayonnaise, Georgian tkemali and satsebeli, ketchup, soy sauce, salsa, tartare, tomato sauce, cream sauce, sour cream sauce, cheese sauce, garlic sauce, mushroom sauce and white sauce.
The sauce can be prepared on meat, fish, mushroom broth, vegetable broth, milk, sour cream, cream, fruit or berry juice, white and red wine. Sauces can be hot and cold, sweet and sour, spicy and spicy. Sauces can also be liquid and thick.
Salad sauces are usually thick or semi–liquid sauces. It can be cooked with mayonnaise, sour cream, vegetable oil, yogurt. The composition of hot sauces includes either chili pepper or any hot pepper.
We all already know that the classic pesto, according to the Ligurian canons, is prepared on the basis of fresh basil, pine nuts, garlic and olive oil. The idea of chopping various herbs with nuts and naming the dish “pesto” was further spread in other countries.
Another variant of salad dressing, quite light and with a piquant taste, which is ideal for leafy and vegetable salads. I will immediately note that there are several options for such a dressing – with and without balsamic vinegar. The products are affordable, simple and quick to prepare!
Very tasty sauce. Suitable for various dishes – for side dishes (rice, spaghetti), chicken dishes. Moderately spicy and spicy, we like it, I hope you like it too.
I made this sauce for the first time and fell in love with it from the first spoonful. Potatoes are the main component of the sauce, giving it velvety, garlic-soy sauce – sharpness and piquancy.