Four-Star Tarragon Sauce

Name: Four-Star Tarragon Sauce
Yield: Makes enough for 1 roast chicken
Ingredients: Several drops lemon juice; 2 tablespoons/30 grams unsalted butter, at room temperature; 1 recipe Roast Chicken au Jus; 1 tablespoon finely minced shallot; 1 to 2 tablespoons chopped fresh tarragon; 1½ tablespoons all-purpose flour

Preparation info

Makes enough for
1
roast chicken

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

From Scratch

By Michael Ruhlman

Published 2019

About

This sauce is the same jus as in the main roast chicken recipe, strained, enhanced with some shallot and tarragon and butter, and thickened slightly so that it has an appealing body. This is how the best of all possible roast chickens concludes.

Ingredients

1 recipe Roast Chicken au Jus
2 tablespoons/30 grams unsalted butter, at

Sauce

Method

Follow the roast chicken recipe through making the jus, stopping just before you add the final cup of water.

While the wine and first cup of water are reducing, make a beurre manié by combining 1½ tablespoons of the butter with the flour. Knead it till it is a uniform paste.

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