Bordelaise Sauce Made with Red Wine Stock

Preparation info
  • yield: 1 cup , about

    6

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By James Peterson

Published 1991

  • About

This classic sauce, once made with white wine, is made in a classic kitchen by adding demi-glace or glace de viande to a red wine reduction and finishing the sauce with cubes of beef marrow. The marrow can be replaced with a swirl of butter. The red wine is best reduced along with the demi-glace or glace de viande so the proteins take out some of the tannin. Best of all is a Bordelaise sauce made starting with red wine stock (simply make a veal stock or other stock using red wine instead of