Burre blanc recipe: 59 photos
FAQ
Pieces of cold butter whisked into a reduction of white wine, vinegar, and shallots creates a buerre blanc sauce. If you've ever added cold butter to thicken a pan sauce, you have made a warm butter emulsion—it's the same technique used in making this sauce.
How to make beurre blanc sauce?
- Add butter and minced shallot to the pan. Saute it, seasoning with salt. ...
- Add white wine, white wine vinegar, crushed peppercorns, minced shallots, and one bay leaf to a saucepan. Reduce until almost dry. ...
- In a pan, add butter, shallots, salt. Saute and deglaze with white wine.
Dry white wine. Dry white wine: Wine is one of the two acid-offering flavorings in a beurre blanc. You can use any dry (not sweet) white wine. Classic recipes tend to recommend more crisp and tart wines, not oaky buttery ones, though honestly any dry white wine will do.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(EWXHZtS0OeWqwPAPkLXtsAQ__98,
If the heat is too high, it can cause the sauce to split. If it starts to look too thin or split, it could be that the butter was added too quickly, which will result in a thin sauce. Alternatively, it may not have been cold enough and therefore melted too quickly.
To stabilise a beurre blanc, once the reduction is made, add 1 tbsp double cream and reduce again by about half. Strain, then whisk the butter in. balance the cloying nature of the fat. Acidity is generally added in the form of vinegar or lemon juice.