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Type | Sauce |
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Place of origin | France |
Main ingredients | Stock,roux |
Avelouté sauce (French pronunciation:[vəlute]ⓘ) is a savorysauce that is made from aroux and a light stock. It is one of the "mother sauces" ofFrench cuisine listed by chefAuguste Escoffier in the early twentieth century.Velouté is French for 'velvety'.
In preparing a velouté sauce, a lightstock (one in which the bones of the base used have not been roasted previously), such as veal, chicken, or fish stock, is thickened with a blond roux. The sauce produced is commonly referred to by the type of stock used (e.g. chicken velouté, fish velouté, seafood velouté).[1]
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Sauce velouté often is served on poultry or seafood dishes and is also used as the base for other sauces.
Sauces derived from a velouté sauce include: