Sauce poivrade

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Sauce poivrade
Sauce poivrade being prepared
TypeSauce
Place of originFrance
Main ingredientsmirepoix, black pepper, Espagnole sauce or wine and vinegar

Sauce poivrade (French pronunciation: [sos pwavʁad]), sometimes called sauce au poivre, is a peppery sauce in French cuisine.

It is made of a cooked mirepoix thickened with flour and moistened with wine and a little vinegar, then heavily seasoned with black pepper.[1] More traditional versions in French haute cuisine use sauce espagnole, one of the French mother sauces, as a thickener.[2]

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  1. ^ André L. Simon, A concise encyclopedia of gastronomy, 1952, p. 39
  2. ^ A. Escoffier, 68. Sauce Poivrade, Le Guide Culinaire, 1903