Red wine sauce

Name: Red wine sauce
Yield: Makes about 400 ml
Ingredients: 4 tsp sunflower oil; 4 banana shallots, thinly sliced; 2 bay leaves; a small bunch of thyme; 400 ml veal jus; 800 red wine (nothing fancy); 10 crushed black peppercorns

Preparation info

Makes about
400 ml

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Changing Tides

By Roberta Hall McCarron

Published 2024

About

This was one of the first sauces that I learned how to make, and I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve made it over the years. I love using Truefoods veal jus for my sauces – you can buy it online or in Waitrose.

Ingredients

4 tsp sunflower oil
4 banana shallots, thinly sliced
2 bay leaves

Sauce
Gluten-free
Winter

Method

Heat the oil in a heavy-bottomed pot, then add the sliced shallots and sweat down with the bay leaves, thyme and crushed black peppercorns until soft.

Add in a third of the red wine, bring to the boil and reduce so the pan is almost dry. Add another third of the wine and again, reduce to almost dry. Pour in the remaining wine and reduce by half, then finally add the veal jus and gently