Onion Sauce Vivien

Name: Onion Sauce Vivien
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon crème fraîche (if unavailable, use cream or sour cream or a mixture); butter for cooking the onions, plus 2 tablespoons for the roux; 4 onions, cut in half and sliced; 3 tablespoons flour; salt and pepper; 1 bottle light beer; milk

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Game Cookbook

By Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott

Published 2004

About

This is so called because my friend Vivien Cassell and I concocted it in her kitchen. It is lighter than the usual and very delicious.

Ingredients

butter for cooking the onions, plus 2 tablespoons for the roux
4 onions, cut in half and sliced

Sauce
Vegetarian

Method

Melt some butter in a pan and sauté the onions until pale gold. In another pan, melt 2 tablespoons butter and add the flour to make a roux, cook for a couple of minutes then add the beer, a little at a time to make a sauce. Add enough milk to make the right consistency—about 2 tablespoons. Add the onions, season with salt and pepper, and stir in the crème fraîche.