Espagnole Sauce: History, Origin and How To Make It Step By Step

The Espagnole sauce is one of the 5 French mother sauces that exist and has been around for centuries. knowing how to make that sauce is a must when you are learning French cooking. Get the recipe: bit.ly/3HwQ2Pf
Ingredients:
75 cl brown veal or beef stock.
25 grams smoked pork bellly
25 grams carrot (cut in rough cubes)
25 grams onions
30 grams mushrooms
150 grams fresh tomatoes or 100 grams tomatoes in can
20 grams tomato paste
1 garlic clove
1 bouquet garni (made with a twig of thyme 4 or parsley stokes and a few celery leaves.)
20 grams butter to cook the bacon.
1 tablespoon of flour.
salt and pepper to season
60 grams beurre manie ( 30 grams butter mixed with 30 grams flour) to thicken the stock
This sauce is also called sometimes brown sauce and have strong beef and tomatoes flavours with a hint of bacon in the background.
you can keep that sauce in the fridge for 24 hours or freeze it for further use.it is a great sauce to use to further enhance any meat dished you make.
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I appreciate how you've included the historical context of the sauce, in this video.

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I like how you said back then that's all they had for the classic sauce but innovation has made sauces better.

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I am in awe of French cooking, especially the care and attention that goes into the sauces.

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A tip for you trying this at home: Tomato paste contents a lot of acidity. Make sure to brown it well in the pot to remove some of it and at the same time give your sauce the desired colour. If you want to go full overkill and have the time and fun (and probably money), you can mix your Sauce Espagnole with pre-made brown stock from the fridge or freezer (This channel shows a great video on how to make this stock). Remove the fat on top of your brown stock, add about as much as you have Sauce Espagnole and pass it through a cloth. What you then get is called "Demi-Glace", a shiny, golden brown liquid and is the base of Sauces straight out of heaven. It's time-consuming and probably not very effective from a financial point of view but if you've already put in the effort to make stock from bones, it's probably not a bad idea to go all-in and create magic. You can then pour this Demi-Glace (or brown stock, practically any stock or broth) into ice cube trays, throw 'em in the freezer and use it as stock cubes whenever needed. Since stock cubes from the Supermarket (or powder, that Knorr stuff or whatever) are basically 90% salt, you may find that your homemade cubes taste a bit dull in comparison but don't worry, that's normal before you season it. Just add the desired amount of salt, pepper and other spices of your liking when using them as a base for many kinds of sauces or dishes and I guarantee you that you'll only ever use Supermarket stockpot again in case of emergency ;)

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I thought the demi glaze was made by reducing veal stock or by half so it becomes more concentrated & rich.

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That's one kind. Demi-glace just means half-glaze and refers to a consistency

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He made the escoffier last video, this is a continuation, not a stock.

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Or make roasted tatmatoes espanola sauce

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Thank you for the remark of the tomato paist and it's acidity...

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I love this channel! I have decided to try and get my head around the whole concept of stock, broth, velouté and Espagnole. It's not easy to understand the differences, or the way each is used differently, but I am making baby steps! I made Espagnole as per this recipe last week, poured over into a muffins tray, in the freezer and then transferred the frozen portions into a freezer bag. A few days later I made a red wine sauce using shalotts, a crushed clove of garlic, balsamic vinegar, red wine, a little stock, a little water and three cubes of Espagnole. There is no doubt that the sauce moved up the scale several notches. Thanks Chef!

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It's so good, many times I drink this sauce instead of hot chocolate in the cooler weather. It's so good to add to so many different meats.

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Thank you! It would be also enjoyable to watch you then use this espagnole sauce and take it to the next step of a demi-glace reduction as a three part series: brown stock to espagnole to finally demi-glace

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Do you have beef bacon in your country?

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I ended up getting béchamel on mine

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Theory class taught us that hot roux and hot stock cannot combine as it will have clumps ..... tried that practically , clumps presents. Should go with a hot and cold combination of both. ( cold roux hot stock / hot roux cold stock )

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Oops...forgot to cool my roux. As Julia Childs says “Never apologize for your mistakes”.

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Hi Stephane, have tried many of your recipes to the absolute delight of my family. Do you have any videos using or building on the Espagnole sauce? I'm looking to understand more about the application and context of it. Many thanks! :)

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Thanks Stephane for this demonstration. There are probably a dozen or more KZbin videos on "Espagnole" sauce, but your demonstration, combined with your prior video on brown stock, results in an authentic Espagnole mother sauce. On the brown stock, I live in Montreal and I can buy a very good beef, chicken or veal stock from one of the city's best butcher shops. The beef or veal stock is full of collagen and some vegetables, so it's a great starter for the brown stock you developed. I also appreciated your pointing out that this sauce Espagnole is a very good base sauce for lots of other sauces and demi glacé. A couple observations and suggestions: Off season it's really hard to find good flavorful tomatoes, so I rely on whole peeled San Marzano tomatoes (marked "DOP") in the can. These are expensive but well worth it, especially if you're going to the trouble of making a high quality sauce. There's no preservatives or additives, just pure whole tomatoes packed in tomato puree. On the smoked bacon, less is more I find. Bacon (or smoked pork belly) can vary considerably in terms of smokiness. As you said, you just want a hint of smokiness in the background. For some bacon, 25 gr. can overpower the sauce, so I use about half that amount. In making derivative sauces from this mother sauce, I can always add more bacon if needed. Again, this is the best demonstration of how to make an exceptional, truly authentic sauce Espagnole. I'm sure Escoffier and his predecessor, Careme would be very pleased. :-)

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Thank you for providing details and, in general sharing your techniques. Will like to elevate the sauces learned in my Acadiana-based techniques which I learned at the knee from grandmothers and mothers- thereby elevating the recipes. Again, thank you for being so kind as to provide exlent details used in preparation for your stock. Cheers!

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What a Great Sauce, Thanks so much

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Great video Chef! And thanks for pointing out it can be frozen for creating a derivative sauce in the future. Looking forward to the Sauce Americaine. Our local French restaurant used to serve a "Lobster Americaine" dish that was amazing. Not sure if it used the same sauce you are talking about though. Either way, merci!

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I believe they probably used demi glace which is made from espangole

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FYI, white button mushrooms are pretty modern, and have a good but pale flavor. When i make this, i use more rustic mushrooms ( morels, ciopinni, etc), yellow spanish onions, and heritage tomatoes and carrots. These could be difficult to source, but if you're a cuisine history nut...yeah. Really interesting difference! I've done them side by side with only store bought ingredients, and with my garden ingredients. If you have a garden...i recommend growing as many of these as you can. :-)

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I loved it, incredibly easy to make.

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The drum is bitter? If you can taste that "bitterness" through all the ingredients, id be amazed. Its like recognizing 1ml of water in a litre of stock. Small details is probably why im watching though. Great work 👏

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