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sauce américaine
[ soh sa-mey-ree-ken ]
noun
- a sauce prepared with tomatoes, garlic, wine, shallots, and herbs. à l’américaine.
Example Sentences
While I love Sauce Américaine, I can see how the judges feel that it doesn't complement tuna well.
I was all set to tell you about a fricassee of shrimp, mussels and sea bass splayed over saffron rice and ringed with zesty sauce américaine.
Sweet bites of butter-poached lobster mingle with elegant potato rounds and celery leaves in another seafood draw, set on sauce Americaine, which gets a lift from crushed tomatoes, saffron, onions and wine.
Lobster ravioli may be a little overcomplicated, but who will complain when the complications include lobster inside the ravioli, outside the ravioli and in the brandy-spiked sauce Américaine?
Currently the kitchen encircles the fish with lobster, cucumber and sauce Americaine, a standard of the French repertoire made from fish stock, tomatoes, white wine and butter.
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