How to make delicious and simple Velouté sauce with European taste

Velouté sauce is one of the most commonly used sauces in European cuisine. The following article will join you in the kitchen with how to make delicious Velouté sauce. Check out the recipe!

Ingredients and tools for making Velouté sauce

• Butter: 50 grams.
• Diced onion: 25 grams.
• White wine: 100ml.
• All-purpose flour: 25g.
• 400 ml broth (meat and vegetable broth).
• Filter bag: 1 small bag, including spices: thyme, bay, pepper and parsley.
• Salt, pepper: 1 little.

Tools : stove, spoon, pot,…

Steps to make Velouté sauce

Step 1: Saute Onions

First you need to put 25 grams of melted butter in the pan, then add the onion and sauté until the onion becomes clear, avoid turning brown. Then, add the white wine and cook until the alcohol has condensed to about 1/2, then set aside.

Step 2: Cook yellow butter sauce (Roux)

Melt in a pan 25 grams of butter over low heat, add 25 grams of flour and beat until smooth and light golden in color.

Step 3: Finish Veloute Sauce

Next, add the broth to the mixture, and mix well with your hands. You need to put the sautéed onions in the pot of cooking mixture on the stove.

Put the seasoning bag including thyme, bay laurel, pepper and parsley into the pot, use a spoon to press the seasoning bag into the mixture, cook on low heat for about 20-30 minutes. While boiling, use a whisk to stir the mixture.

Season with salt and pepper before turning off the heat. Finally, you filter the cooked sauce through a sieve to make the sauce smooth.

Finished Product

The finished Veloute sauce has a moderate fatty taste and attractive aroma, the sauce has a medium smooth consistency and is light brown in color.

Velouté is the basic base sauce used to make other sauces: Supreme sauce, Bercy sauce, white wine sauce, mushroom sauce… or used in dishes with seafood, chicken, etc.

Above is an article about how to make delicious, simple European Velouté sauce. Good luck making this divine sauce!

*Images and recipe reference from YouTube channel: Eurasian Kitchen.