Beurre Blanc Tutorial | using the classic method

Learn how a bit of history and how to make a beurre blanc the classic way with this step by step video tutorial. If you want a faster, modern and foolproof version of that sauce check my latest video here • Master the Art of Beur...
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The Beurre Blanc is an emulsion of half-salted butter and a reduction of white wine, vinegar and shallots. The white wine and vinegar are reduced by half with the gray shallots, then the butter is gently incorporated and whipped over very low heat (do not exceed the temperature of 50 degrees) in a heavy-bottomed saucepan.
This sauce is served hot as an accompaniment, without waiting, a dish, usually salmon, tuna or white fish. Water can be added before the butter is incorporated in plots. After the butter has melted, leave the shallots or pass the sauce through a sieve ( chinois) which will then make what we called a butter Nantais.
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Never apologize for your English. I wish my French was as accomplished as your English! Merci beaucoup for another wonderful recipe!

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Thank you 🙂

[@luigiconte924]

Can anyone help me? Why when I make the sauce after i still can taste the white vinegar ? Is that normal? What s the proportion between the wine and the vinegar more or less ? And yes , I did make sure the shallots absorbed all the wine and vinigar . Thank you for your help!

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@@luigiconte924 As written in the description, the ratio of wine to vinegar is 2 to 1.

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actually his accent proves that this recipe is authentic.

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You are such an inspiration for amateur chefs around the world. I am from Tanzania and made it today for my wife, who is French and she was so so impressed. You made our night very happy. Thank you.

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First time I've seen a Beurre Blanc made properly on YT, about time.

[@basaksungur9068]

So adding the butter only at the end isn't correct? I've always seen like that

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@@basaksungur9068 isn't that what he is doing?

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@@mohitoness he put some at the very beginning

[@mohitoness]

@@basaksungur9068 ah i see just to sweat the shallots, it's a pretty miniscule amount in comparison. I wonder if it makes any differnce if you sweat the shallots dry (or with a tbsp of water) and add that extra bit of butter to the big chunk of butter in the end. I assume it won't make much of a difference...

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Bravo! This is one of my favorite simple sauces to go with fish. When done well the texture is of pure silk without (counter-indicatively) a hit of greasiness. Thank you.

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I agree, never apologize for your English. I studied several years of French and after not using it I have forgotten about 90% of it unfortunately. Listening to you making the delicious sauce brings back all the wonderful memories while I was studying French I wish I could speak French the way you speak English. Vons étes merevilleuse, merci 😊 I look forward to more recipes. I made this for Thanksgiving as a sauce for brussel sprouts, leaks and it was a hit. Merci beacou!!

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Absolutely wonderful tutorial. Beautifully delivered.

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Thanks for watching 🙂

[@jgurtz]

Tonight I made a lemon-dill version of this to serve alongside braised salmon with fennel, carrots, and new potatoes. Fantastique 🤌 ! Just switch out the vinegar for freshly squeezed lemon juice and then add a good tablespoon (more or less to taste) of finely minced dill sprigs at the point where you are doing the liaison of butter at the end. Cannot recommend enough!

[@leemiles3975]

Nice 💯

[@markntexas8265]

In a restaurant we would use a bit of cream to stabilize the sauce and always strain out the shallots. Then add dill basil smoked tomato chipotle purée or anything else you can think of his sauce is a bit thick but probably classicly correct

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Hmmm.. I have never tried this but into French dishes lately.. I’ll definitely will give it a try!

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Easiest Burre Blanc recipe! Thanks 🙏 I added dried dill, lemon juice and a little garlic powder at the wine and vinegar stage and made the most sublime sauce!

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I love the butter/emulsified sauces. Great vídeo. Btw I think it is a great Idea do revisit basic techniques like basic cuts, sauces stocks and so forth. Merci beaucoup

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Is a good idea for starting butter sauces

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That's a super recepie and the explanation is soooo clear, thanks.

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This is the best beurre blanc recipe I’ve ever seen. Thank you. You are great.

[@MrMuscleman420]

Merci! I finally understand how to do this. I had my first Beurre Blanc at a restaurant near Chateau Chenonceaux. It was superb. Now I can make my own.

[@arieldamian2248]

Pristine is a very good word to describe it. This sauce is a dream. As a vegetarian I always make it for king oyster mushrooms. Thank you for the authentic recipe

[@schaffelaer1902]

Did this, together with your fish poach recipe. Worked like a charm! Like food for the gods. Your recipes really work! Love wine, love butter, love France ❤️

[@carlitobunz]

I’m glad I watched, I always separated the shallots before the butter emulsification. Looks great

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Excellent. Very well explained step-by-step!! Thank you.

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I really enjoy the history that you research and share with us. Thank you for sharing the history, recipes, and techniques in these videos.

[@janetcorey5102]

Excellent directions! I love this sauce on almost anything, delicious 🥂

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Love the accent! Nice to know a Frenchman is teaching!

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Very easy to follow and excellently filmed. You make it look so easy!

[@SuzanneBaruch]

Well done! Thank you for the lesson. I've been meaning to attempt this sauce for a while, so your video will make me feel more confident when I do!

[@FrenchCookingAcademy]

It's actually not too hard to make glad you like the video . The key is to keep the temperature low

[@DavidMaurand]

i loved how the plate was transformed when you applied the buerre blanc.

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Chef John, I didn't know you existed until I used google to find a great lemon burre blanc sauce. Now I'm a fan of your light hearted and easy manner in addition to a demonstration that leaves no doubt how to make this sauce! Thank you!

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Im so glad i found this guy doing classical sauce in a classic way. I always prefer the old school method even if the cheat (ie using a blender to make hollandaise)ways are just as good there's no satisfaction and you learn more the original way.

[@thedracophile]

My first time doing beurre blanc, as a sauce for halibut. Was absolutely amazing, thank you very much for this tutorial. Added about 1/4 tsp minced tarragon to it. I'll definitely be doing this again. The leftover sauce is slated for some eggs, tomorrow!

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I've just made it and it tasted AMAZING. This is the second sauce I learned from you (being the hollandaise the first, which helped me develop my own bearnaise) and no I'm always disappointed when I go to a restaurant. Merci!

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Very good demonstration. Thank you very much.

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[@kingk2405]

With a whole grilled fillet of salmon it is just an incredible match .

[@RojamZane]

I didn't realise the simplicity of making this sauce. I always thought it was really complicated. Thank you! I think I may start using this as the base of my parsley sauce for smoked haddock. Until now, I was making a roux white sauce.

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I much prefer watching you. Explain the process rather than spending the whole time looking at a pan and some ingredients. You are the one that brings the recipe for life.

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'today is all about the butter'. When is it not in French cooking.

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Sater Draj Life is all about the butter ,)

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If it's Provencale cooking.

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When it is all about the wine?

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Cooking with butter is mostly in the North of France while in the south they use olive oil.

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Isnt it too much butter? More than a stick of butter in that dish 🙄🙄🙄🙄not healthy at all.

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So, I'm following the video with so much concentration, I knocked over my beer into the sauce! Did I just create a new sauce, or a mess?😂 Thank you for all of your wonderful videos.

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Beer Blanc, Biere Blanc?

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[@TruculentGoose]

Considering Beurre Blanc Was invented by Lady Clemence, F'ing up Béarnaise. I think you have made a new sauce, Beurre Biere.

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"Very thinly, or finely. I don't know how it's called in English" Don't worry, neither do we. :P

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Tegan Milhoan “Thin” is for slices. “Fine” is for a very small cubes, or a dice.

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@@susanoppat3138 so in this case which one is this?

[@susanoppat3138]

Drunken Master II for the shallots, he’s making a “dice,” or tiny cubes. So it’s a “fine” dice. if he only made one cut, top of the shallot down to the board, it would result in a thin slice.

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​@@susanoppat3138 Can you make a thin dice?

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Drunken Master II I like to call that the domino cut. ☺ Alas, it's never intentional.

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[@kingk2405]

With bbq grilled meat it is a delish ! Same as the béarnaise . Those sauce have moreorless the same base , some mint instead of tarragon in a béarnaise and you get a Paloise but with a little bit of tomato purée you get a Sauce Choron. That is why recipes are secondaries , the most important are the concepts , to understand why différents ingredients interacts to create a base for then your imagination to create and test new ideas.

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French knows 😉 butter makes everything delightful...

[@sabrina.h2737]

Glad you mentioned about the wine as I live in Australia and don't drink so, I would never have been able to work out on my own where my recipe would be going wrong. I have subscribed and look forward to cooking along with your videos on a regular bases. 💎

[@brendajames6075]

Thank you for showing us the proper way of making this, looks great

[@rubenguayasamin]

You are obviously well versed, but if I may offer a word of advice… I was taught to use cold butter to help with temperature control. If your sauce begins to get to hot, to avoid splitting, adding cold butter can quickly lower the temperature.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

With the precision of Eyeball Measure(tm.) I can tell you the correct measures: white wine: two glugs. Vinegar: one.

[@jerrywilliams1754]

Thank You chef, a very thorough explanation looks perfect!

[@paulofernandes9134]

Amazing video! Well explained. Not rushed. This was very useful! My beurre blanc turned out really well 😍😁

[@shanepasha6501]

I have been making beurre blanc sauce differently. I do add heavy cream, or as euros call it double crème, and then the butter, slowly and low heat to allow the emulsification to occur. Why no crème. Great show. Thank you Stéphane.

[@jmbkpo]

Because it never used cream, with techniques you dont need ingredients for thickening or flavoring

[@amateurastronomer9463]

The addition of cream especially for large production cooking like banquets or a large restaurant is to make it more stable when holding for service. Less of a chance of the sauce breaking or splitting. And you don't need that much cream. The trick is to reduce your cream until extremely thick and sticks to the spoon. I've reduced 4 litre of cream to about one litre and I've made 70 litres of buerre blanc for a 1500 person banquet that was stable in a 145°F alto sham holding box. Also didn't use any other stabilizer or starch.

[@BKMcl]

Erica Johnson , interesting...I enjoy learning about different techniques. I never heard of cream being used in this sauce. Thank You.

[@FrenchCookingAcademy]

Spot on

[@amateurastronomer9463]

Also with using the cream method of making beurre blanc, you can use it to butter poached whole lobster tail meat and/or claws meat. Then finish the lobster with the lobster flavored beurre blanc. Just make sure to use very low heat.

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... or a little like Nelson Monfort's, which sounds pleasant !

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[@jonnywalker5361]

Me: “How much butter?” French: “Yes”

[@darknightes14]

Finely chopped ~ called brunoise fine

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Beautiful!!! Turned my dish into a restaurant quality dish. Thanks mate

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The cooking starts at 5:50 for anyone who just wants to get to the action

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[@gragall78]

I normally reduce some cream with the reduction then add the butter, that way it won't split if it gets to hot or if your using it all night during service. I just chop up the shallots roughly add some thyme and chopped up lemon, its going to be passed anyway so no need to finely chop everything

[@tomparlo9510]

gragall78 you’re a professional and that’s the same way we learned to make a beurre blanc. Without the cream it’s not as stable. I think this video is for home cooks. It’s redundant to worry about the perfect fine diced shallots if you are going to strain it.

[@ethanwong9080]

I make this sauce daily at work, it’s become a routine. Such a simple sauce but so delicate. Fantastic video and explanation!!

[@TACOPOTENTE]

Yeah? What brand of butter you Use?

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I don't even cook that much, I just came from Food wars, thanks man, I might make this.

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Hpw did it turn out?

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[@christianelias623]

Okay so this and fresh lake trout in my region, game over and thank you for this classic sauce!!

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Thank you again! ✨Perfectly expalined! Merci

[@kevansmith5511]

À la Nouvelle-Orléans, nous utilisons du sauvignon blanc.

[@francoiseperlaux2458]

Le vin blanc, du moment qu'il est brut, non sucré, ça fonctionne !!!

[@arthas640]

9:00 im just picturing some french chef inventing this sauce by standing behind his saucier and yelling at him "more butter. No, I said more butter. _I said more butter!_ I want our customers arteries to clog and their hearts to stop before they finish their dinner!" while his saucier is sobbing and telling him, like Scotty from Star Trek, "I'm givin' her all she's got cap'n!" after depleting his butter supplies.

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Lol I think the actual way in the video is a bit funny as well . Following a recipe only to realize “ omg I forgot to add the eggs!!!” But rolling with it anyway

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