Beurre Blanc White Butter Sauce Recipes

CHEF JOHN'S BEURRE BLANC

Steps:

• Place wine, lemon juice, cream, shallots, and cream in a saucepan. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium, and let simmer until liquid is reduced by about 75%, 4 to 5 minutes. Reduce heat to the lowest setting and whisk in about 2 cubes of butter. Keep butter moving until it melts. When melted, add a few more cubes, whisking continuously so butter emulsifies into the wine/lemon juice mixture.
• Continue to add butter, a few cubes at a time until all of it has been incorporated and the sauce has a thick, luxurious texture, 4 to 6 minutes. Remove from heat. Taste for seasonings and add a pinch of salt and cayenne, if desired. Serve immediately.

CLASSIC BEURRE BLANC: WHITE BUTTER SAUCE

Steps:

• In a heavy 2-quart saucepan, combine vinegar, wine, shallots, lemon, and bay leaves to make an infusion. Simmer over medium heat for 5 to 8 minutes until the mixture is reduced to a wet paste, about 2 tablespoons. Add the cream and continue to simmer until reduced again to about 2 tablespoons. Cream is added to make the sauce more stable and less likely to separate.
• Reduce the heat to low and remove the bay leaves. Whisk in the chunks of butter in small batches. The butter should melt without the sauce getting too hot, producing a creamy emulsified sauce. Do not let the sauce go over 130 degrees F, where it will separate. If the sauce starts to break, remove from heat, add 2 ice cubes and whisk until it cools down and comes back together. Season with salt and pepper, fold in the chives, and serve immediately. Keep covered in a warm place for a few hours, if needed.
• Serve with fish or vegetables.

WHITE BUTTER SAUCE: BEURRE BLANC

Steps:

• In a 1 1/2 quart saucepan combine vinegar, wine, shallots, salt and white pepper and bring to a simmer.
• Gently simmer liquid until reduced to 1 1/2 tablespoons. Remove from heat and immediately swirl or whisk in 2 pieces of chilled butter. As the butter is incorporated into the liquid add another piece and continue to swirl or whisk. Return pan to low heat and while constantly swirling or whisking add successive pieces of butter. When all of the butter has been added remove from heat. Sauce will be thick and creamy. Adjust seasoning to taste. Serve immediately. To hold the sauce, set the pan in a larger pan of lukewarm water. If the sauce separates, transfer a spoonful of the sauce to a cold mixing bowl and gradually whisk the rest of the sauce in by the spoonful. The sauce can be reheated by gradually whisking 2 to 3 tablespoons of hot liquid, i.e. water, cream or stock.

SLOW-ROASTED BONE-IN PORK RIB ROAST

Steps:

• 1. Remove roast from bones, running knife down length of bones and following contours as closely as possible. Reserve bones. Combine sugar and salt in small bowl. Pat roast dry. If necessary, trim thick spots of surface fat layer to about 1/4" thickness. Cut slits, spaced 1" apart and in crosshatch pattern, in surface fat layer, being careful not to cut into meat. Rub roast evenly with sugar mixture. Wrap roast and ribs in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 6 hrs or up to 24 hrs. 2. Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 250. Sprinkle roast evenly with pepper. Place roast back on ribs so bones fit where they were cut; tie roast to bones with lengths of kitchen twine between ribs. Transfer roast, fat side up, to wire rack set in a sheet pan. Roast until meat registers 145 degrees, 3 to 4 hrs. 3. Remove roast from oven (leave roast on sheet), tent loosely with aluminum foil, and let rest for 30 minutes. 4. Meanwhile combine port and cherries in bowl and microwave til steaming, 1 to 2 min. Cover and let stand until cherries are plump, about 10 min. Strain port through fine-mesh strainer into med saucepan, reserving cherries. 5. Add vinegar, thyme sprigs, and shallots to port and bring to boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-high and reduce mixture until it measures 3/4 c, 14 to 16 min. Add cream and reduce again to 3/4 c, about 5 min. Discard thyme sprigs. Off heat, whisk in butter, few pieces at a time, til fully incorporated. Stir in cherries, minced thyme, salt, and pepper. Cover pan and hold, off heat, until serving. Or, let sauce cool completely and refrigerate for up to two days, reheating over medium heat until warm. 6. Adjust oven rack 8" from broiler element and heat broiler. Return roast to oven and broil until top of roast is well browned and crispy, 2 to 6 min. 7. Transfer roast to carving board; cut twine and remove meat from ribs. Slice meat into 3/4 inch thick slices and serve, passing sauce separately

LEMONGRASS BUTTER SAUCE (BEURRE BLANC)

Steps:

• Heat oil in nonstick pan. Over low heat, saute leek, shallots, garlic, mushrooms, lemon grass and lime leaf. Cook for a few minutes, stopping before ingredients begin to take on color. Add wine, bring to a boil and reduce by two-thirds. Add fish stock and reduce by two-thirds.
• Add cream, and simmer for 10 minutes; strain sauce. Clean pot or use fresh one. Return strained sauce to pot, and return to heat. Add a tablespoon of butter at a time to lightly boiling sauce, whisking until butter is incorporated. Season with cayenne, and serve over won tons.

BEURRE BLANC (WHITE BUTTER SAUCE)

Steps:

• Combine the vinegar and water in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Add the shallots and cook down until almost all the liquid has evaporated.
• Add the butter bit by bit, stirring rapidly with a wire whisk over moderate heat. The sauce may boil, but you must stir rapidly. When ready, the sauce should be thickened and creamy.