In a bowl combine butter, lemon, garlic, mustard, cayenne & paprika. Whisk to combine. Stir in the parsley, chives, red pepper & thyme then season w/ salt & pepper. Serve w/ grilled meats.
The one starter dish that everyone had on the table was this Escargots à la Bourguignonne. Although it came with only six small snails, the herby butter sauce more than made up for the portion as we used the bread to mop it up.
Andrew seeing that I am eyeing my dining partner’s Shrimp Cocktail, suggested that I should also get some for myself. I am glad that he ordered double portions for me as the crunchy succulent shrimps with garlicy sauce were just so delish and the cherry tomatoes were so sweet.
The other two men had Steak Diane which was beautifully seared on the grill. The beefsteak came with a woody mushroom-Cognac sauce, served with a baked jacket potato and grilled vegetables. My colleague said that it was delectable and he enjoyed it.
My medium rare and bone-in Grilled Lamb Chops was tender and flavourful, not gamey at all. It was served with roasted squash, carrot and thin asparagus with a creamy parsnip and potato mash. Too bad my colleague’s wife found it too raw for her liking.
This sauce is great with pan seared chicken, scallops, white fish, salmon and pork chops!
Ingredients:
1 tbsp butter plus 3 for later
1 large shallot, minced
salt to taste
4 cloves of garlic, minced
1 cup dry white wine, I used a sauvignon blanc
1 cup chicken stock
minced parsley or chives for garnish
Preparation: STEP 1.
In the same pan that you cooked your protein, over medium heat, add 1 tbsp of butter and your minced shallots. Salt all over and cook until translucent, around 2-3 minutes. Add the garlic and saute another 1 minute.
STEP 2.
Add the white wine to deglaze, scraping up any of the brown bits with a wooden spoon. Bring to a low simmer and reduce until the sauce is almost dry and the wine is very thickened, around 3-5 minutes.
STEP 3.
Add the chicken stock and bring to a simmer, reduce until nappe (can coat the back of a spoon and not move). This should take around 3-5 minutes. Taste for seasoning and add salt if necessary.
STEP 4.
Add the remaining 3 tbsp of butter and stir in a spoon or whisk. This should emulsify and mix together and thicken. Once it is melted in and combined, and thick and creamy, add the protein back to the pan and top with parsley.
STEP 5.
Serve immediately and enjoy!
How to make a white wine garlic butter pan sauce! Perfect for a fast weeknight sauce to go with chicken, pork or fish!
Troubleshooting – since this is an emulsion sauce it can “break” aka the butter may not properly combine and it looks separated and not creamy. This could be for a few reasons, one you may have not reduced the sauce enough before adding the butter, it has to be thick. Two you may have over reduced the sauce to where it is almost dry and too thick. Three, you reduced it too much while. the butter was already in there. A fix for this would be adding a splash of water and whisking in, water does wonders for fixing a broken sauce.
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