What is velouté

darksideofthespoon added 3 months ago

It's a roux (butter, flour that are cooked) thickened with stock.

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added 3 months ago

As opposed to a béchamel, which is prepared with milk rather than stock, be it vegetable, chicken, or beef.

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to be a stickler about it, its stock that is thickened with roux not the other way around. and really it doesn't need to be stock it can be any sort of base thickened with roux

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Diana B added 3 months ago

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added 3 months ago

Per the above comments veloute is (as is bechamel) a mother sauce; in other words you keep building on it. If it breaks "mount" it with more butter. Why do sauces in restaurants taste better than the ones you looked up on the internet? In a real restaurant they use tons of butter and buckets of salt.

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