Sweet sauce - general principles and methods of preparation
Incredibly tasty spicy and spicy sauces complement and decorate meat and vegetable dishes. And sweet sauces are the most important addition to desserts and sweets. Such sauces are served not so often, mainly when you want to add a “twist” to enrich and enhance the taste of any products. Sweet sauces are very diverse: fruit and berry, milk, vanilla, cream, chocolate, egg, coffee.
They are prepared from various fruits and berries, vanillin, potato starch, chocolate, honey butter and spices. Of the liquid ingredients, fruit and berry juices, wine, syrups, sour cream, eggs and cream, coffee and cocoa are used. By temperature, they are divided into hot and cold. Sweet sauce can be served at the table in a gravy boat, or pour the dish when serving. They are good in cold and hot. Cool them by stirring with a spatula so that a film does not form.
Sweet Sauce - Preparing Foods
To prepare sweet sauces based on berries or fruit juices, they need to be mixed with butter and sugar. It is best to mix the ingredients over low heat. Make sure that the mixture does not stick to the bottom. If the recipe involves the inclusion of eggs or proteins, they need to be beat well. The wine is poured at the very last stage and warmed up again.
Sweet Sauce - The Best Recipes
Recipe 1: Sweet Berry Sauce with Wine
Puree with additives - wine and sugar can be prepared from any ripe berries - raspberries, currants, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, blueberries, etc.
Ingredients: Sugar (180-200 grams), berries (7 glasses), white or red wine (50 grams), water ¼ cup.
Cooking method
Sort and rinse the berries, rub them through a sieve, until berry puree is obtained. Water is poured into the pan, pour sugar and bring the mixture to a boil over low heat. Stir constantly so that the mixture does not stick to the bottom. In the hot syrup, we introduce the wine and the finished berry puree. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
Recipe 2: Sweet Vanilla Sauce
If you decide to make apple strudel or another pie, milk vanilla sauce will be a great addition to it. Pancakes with cottage cheese or any sweet filling for it are also “nothing”.
Ingredients: milk (200 ml.), vanilla (half a pod, or vanilla powder 1 sachet), yolks (2 pcs.), sugar (60 grams).
Cooking method
Boil milk with vanilla. Stir the yolks with a fork, add sugar. It should completely dissolve, and the yolks should turn white. Pour milk and continue to stir actively. Pour into a saucepan or ladle, set on fire. Stir well so that the sauce does not stick to the bottom and does not curl. The sauce is ready when it stops draining from a spoon. You can’t boil it. It can be stored in the refrigerator for several days.
Recipe 3: Sweet Chocolate Sauce
For many of us, chocolate is exclusively a dessert. However, it can be a wonderful spice, especially dark, with many flavors and odors. It is often added to various dishes (to the hare, duck, venison). Cocoa is used as an emulsifier and thickener in sauces and creams. Delicate thick and aromatic chocolate sauce is presented with ice cream and sweet casseroles. Of course, prepare it, you understand that this is not just melted chocolate, but something much more.
Ingredients: dark chocolate (170 grams), water (115 ml), butter (30 grams), cream (6 tablespoons), vanilla essence (half a teaspoon).
Cooking method
To make dark chocolate sauce, heat water in a small saucepan and pour sugar. Constantly stir until sugar dissolves. Break the chocolate into the smallest pieces, also grind the butter, send everything to a saucepan until dissolved. Remove from heat and continue to stir, add cream and vanilla, stir until smooth. Pour the dish with warm sauce, or serve separately in the gravy boat.
Recipe 4: Sweet Fruit Sauce (Apple)
In the same way, you can make a sweet dessert sauce of pears, plums, apricots, plums, only slightly vary the amount of sugar and acid.
Ingredients: apples (Antonovka, 400 grams), citric acid (1 gram, or the juice of one lemon), potato starch (30 grams), cloves, cinnamon.
Cooking method
Peel apples. Remove the core. Sometimes the skin from apples is not removed, but finely rubbed on a grater. Boil the peel separately and fill the apples with a decoction. Add lemon juice or acid, cloves, cinnamon and cook until tender in this bowl. Cook until cooked. Wipe the finished mixture through a sieve and put on a small fire. Gradually introduce starch diluted in cold water. Bring to a boil again. This sauce is served with sweet pastries or cereal puddings.
Sample Sweet Sauce Dishes
Recipe 1: Beef with Sweet Chili Sauce
We choose bitter pepper for this dish, and the sauce is sweet. Beef in a sweet sauce is very tasty and tender. Of course, we are not used to eating such dishes every day, but it’s very interesting to arrange an original dinner for ourselves.
Ingredients: beef (800 grams, fillets), onions (2 pcs.), vegetable oil (2 tbsp. tablespoons), salt, carrot (4 pcs.), small eggplant (2 pcs.), zucchini (2 small), vegetable oil .
Sauce: large red chili peppers (10 pcs.), White wine vinegar (0. 5 cups), sugar (1 cup), salt (0.5 tsp), salt.
Cooking the sauce. Wash the peppers and cut in half. We remove the seeds, peel the garlic. We cut everything arbitrarily. Add a quarter glass of water, grind in a blender into a homogeneous mass.
In a stewpan with a thick bottom, spread the mass, add sugar, mass, vinegar, salt. We put on medium heat, bring to a boil and cook stirring. Transfer to a sterilized jar and cool. This sauce can be used for several days. We wash and dry the beef, peel and cut the onion into thin rings. Rub the meat with salt and grease with oil. We spread the onions in the form and spread the meat on top. Bake for 20 minutes in the microwave at 100% power or in the oven at 200 degrees. Then we take out the meat, grease it in the sauce and return to bake. Serve with sweet pepper sauce.
Recipe 2: Rice Pudding with Orange Syrup
It is hard to imagine a person who does not like oranges. Orange syrup can turn a neutral or even tasteless dish into a delicious dessert.
Ingredients: orange juice (5 pcs.), honey (3 tbsp. tablespoons), thyme, strawberries (10 pcs.), ground black pepper, milk (700 ml.), rice (0.5 cups), sugar (1 tbsp.spoon).
Cooking method
Pour the orange syrup into the stewpan. Add honey, thyme, bring to a boil and evaporate to make syrup. Cut strawberries into small slices, season with pepper and put in the refrigerator. Rice for dessert is needed so that it is well boiled. In a saucepan, heat milk with sugar and put rice. Boil until thick porridge, about 15 minutes. Ready pudding is placed at the bottom of the glass, and the orange syrup is gently poured. Decorate with strawberries.
Sweet sauce - tips from experienced chefs
Sweet sauces open up great opportunities for feeding moody kids. Many of them do not tolerate porridge or even milk. What to do in this case. If a child needs to be fed, but he flatly refuses to drink milk? Sweet milk sauce comes to the rescue. Prepare pudding or viscous thick porridge for the kids and pour it with milk sauce.
Boil the sugar with a few drops of lemon juice in a pan, pour into molds or small cups. The milk is whipped with vanilla and eggs, and put in a hot bath. Milk, caramel sugar and eggs turn into a breathtakingly delicious pudding sauce. Before putting it on a plate, place the cups in hot water for a moment upside down, and the caramel is beautifully laid out from the cup. Very beautiful and breathtakingly delicious!
