Red Wine Fish Sauces

Red wine sauces are excellent when served with full-flavored fish such as salmon, mackerel, squid, and tuna. Most recipes for fish sauces discourage using salmon bones for making fish stock because of their strong, sometimes aggressive flavor. Red wine sauces are an exception; a sauce made with a full-bodied red wine and salmon bones makes an assertive yet complex and subtle sauce.

The following recipe can also be prepared with squid. Replace the salmon bones with 2 pounds (1 kilogram) fresh squid that has been cleaned, well rinsed, and finely sliced.