Name: Beurre Blanc
Ingredients: 1 generous tablespoon finely chopped shallots; freshly squeezed lemon juice; salt; 170 g cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes; 60 ml white wine; 60 ml white wine vinegar; 1–1½ tablespoons cream; ground white pepper

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Darina Allen's Simply Delicious Suppers

By Darina Allen

Published 2001

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Ingredients

Sauce

60 ml white wine
60 ml white wine vinegar
1 generous

Method

Put the wine, wine vinegar, shallots and pepper into a heavybottomed stainless steel saucepan and reduce down to about ½ tablespoon. Add the cream and boil again until it thickens. Whisk in the cold butter in little pieces, keeping the sauce just warm enough to absorb the butter. Strain out the shal