Sauce as Condiment :: Different Kinds of Sauce
Sauce as Condiment
Condiment are used by all people around the world. Sauce is an example of condiment. Sauce are put into food as an addition so that it may add flavor (taste), aroma, moisture to the main dish. Sauces can be in solid and liquid state or ion between. Sauce comes from the Latin word "salsu" meaning salted. it can either contain more solid than liquid. it is found in every parts of the world as part of culinary culture.
Sauces can be prepared at home or can be bought at any supermarkets. You may want to make sauce before you will eat your food specially if you want it hot.
Sauce can be sweet, sour, sweet and sour. They come in white or brown sauce. Sauce can be specific to different culture -- different in taste. it can also be used for dessert. It can be from a vegetable or fruit like tomato -- ketchup. Salad dressing needs sauce. A cook who is an expert in sauce is called saucier.
Ketchup Sauce made of tomato -- most popular sauce
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There are also many sauces that can be made out of tomato
- ketchup
- tomato pancake sauce
- tomato sauce puree
Sauces can be derived form other vegetables and fruits
Sauces can also be sweet either hot or cold
Sauces can also be used dessert garnish
Sauces can be strained to make sauces out of fruity -- removed the skin and fibers and are sweetened like
- apple sauce
- cranberry
Sauce as Condiment in Different Culture
English sauce
| gravy, bread sauce, mint sauce, apple sauce, horseradish sauce, salad cream, ketchup, brown sauce, mustard,Worcestershire sauce, Roman fish sauce garum and custard
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French sauce
| bechamel, espagnole,veloute, Mayonnaise, Hollandaise -- emulsified sauces
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Spanish sauce
| pico de gallo and salsas like verde, cocida, roja
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Mexican sauces
| sauce is usually cotabined avocado -- mole (combinaiton of chocolate and avocado, similar to Spanish sauces
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Argentine sauces
| tomato sauce, cream sauce, or pink sauce (the two mixed).
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Japan
| wasabi, yakisoba, miso used in soup and other dishes, soy sauce, yakitori, ponzu, tonkatsu, okonomiyaki, wasabi joyu, horseradish,
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Chinese
| fermentation -- like soy sauce, hoisin, chili, oyster, doubanjiang, sweet bean sauce, sweet and sour sauce
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Philippines
| soy sauce, fish sauce, vinegars with chili
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Thailand and Vietnam
| fish sauce, hoisin sauce, sriracha sauce
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Kinds of sauces
Whit sauces :
- mornay, mushroom, allemande, americaine, supreme, Veloute, yoghurt
Brown sauces
- Chateaubriand, Bourguignonne, Bordelaise. Charcutiere. Demipoutine. Romesco, Sauce africaine , Sauce au poivre.Robert sauce
Other sauces ;
- emulsified
- bechamel family
- sweet
- butter
- sauces made of chopped ingredients
Hot and chili sauces: buffalo, datil pepper, chili, enchilada, zhug, tabasco, fra diabolo
There are hundreds more sauces to choose from and it all depends on what kind of food you are mixing them with or the taste of the person and color. It is a part of every culture, can either be prepared or bought.
Sauce as Condiment
Seasonings and sauce are considered condiments -and they are add ons to food. They are part of the main menu and give some flavorful and desired taste to it. At times it is the only thing that makes the food yummy. They are usually added in relatively smaller amount because they are concentrated.
Other examples of condiments are : salt, olive oil, vinegar, sugar, ketchup, mustard and mole.
They are usually in one package form as in restaurants and or in bottles or jars.
My favorite condiments as I am an Asian are : soy sauce, vinegar, hoisin and fish sauce.
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