Demi Glace Espagnole Sauce Food

ESPAGNOLE SAUCE

Steps:

• -Roughly chop the mirepoix
• - Caramelize the vegetables in the butter or other fat until nice and dark brown. Add the peppercorns, bay leaf and herb now.
• -Add the flour and cook it until you reach the brown roux stage. It will smell wonderfully toasty!
• - Optional: If using red wine, add it to the pot now.
• -Pour in the brown stock and stir to properly incorporate the flour mixture and avid any lumps from forming.Add the tomato paste.
• -Bring the Espagnole Sauce to a boil, and then reduce and simmer for 1.5 hours.
• -Skim off any foam that may rise to the top.
• - Once simmered strain the sauce and use as a base in garvy or other sauces to be served with red meat.

DEMI-GLACE & ESPAGNOLE SAUCE

Steps:

• 1. Espagnole Sauce; In a large pot over medium heat, add clarified butter and when sizzling, add mirepoix (onion, celery, carrot) and cook for 6 minutes or until soft. Add chervil, stir before adding flour; cook for a few minutes. Pour in beef broth and add tomato purée; season with black pepper and bay leaf. Stir well, bring mixture to a boil then reduce back to medium and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• 2. Pour the sauce through a fine sieve resting on a bowl pressing down on the vegetables to extract as much liquid and flavor as possible; discard what's in the sieve. Pour the Espagnole sauce in a measuring cup to know the volume; transfer back to a clean pot.
• 3. Demi-Glace; Pour in beef stock equal to the same amount of Espagnole sauce; i.e. if it was 2 ½ cups Espagnole sauce, add 2 ½ cups beef stock. Bring to a boil.
• 4. Meanwhile, prepare the spice/herb sachet. In a sachet or cheesecloth, combine thyme leaves, peppercorns, bay leaf and parsley; tie shut or use kitchen twine if using cheesecloth; set aside.
• 5. When sauce is boiling, add sachet to it. Stir well, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer gently until the liquid has reduced by half, about 40 to 50 minutes.
• 6. Retrieve the sachet and discard it. Line a fine sieve with cheesecloth over a large bowl. Pour the demi-glace through it; discard the cheesecloth and proceed with the recipe otherwise pour it in an ice cube tray and transfer to the freezer. When frozen, place demi-glace cubes in a re-sealable freezer bag for later use
• 7. NOTE: If not using the demi-glace for another sauce, season it and serve it.
• 8. To view this recipe on YouTube, click on this link >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h2dHIjsUCM

DEMI-GLACE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
• Pour the oil into a metal roasting pan and put it in the preheated oven for 3 to 5 minutes to heat up the pan and condition it with the oil. Spread the bones out on the roasting pan and cook until browned, 30 to 45 minutes, turning the bones occasionally so they brown evenly.
• Transfer the bones to a large-enough stockpot to accommodate the bones, 6 quarts ice water and more. Use tongs to transfer the bones so you do not pour any fat into the stockpot. Add the ice water to the stockpot and bring to a simmer. Allow the stock to cook for 4 hours at a slow simmer. Skim the surface of the stock occasionally to remove any fat or impurities.
• While the stock is simmering, discard all but about 1/4 cup of the fat from the roasting pan. Bring the pan back up to temperature over high heat on the stovetop. Add the onions and carrots and cook until golden brown and caramelized. Add the celery and cook for another 10 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste, thyme and bay leaf and cook, stirring regularly, until the tomato paste gets a brick red color, about 15 minutes. Add 1 cup of the red wine and stir it into the mirepoix (vegetable) mixture.
• Add the mirepoix mixture to the stock after the 4-hour simmering time. Bring the stock back up to a simmer and continue to cook it for another 2 hours.
• In a separate pot, bring the remaining 7 cups red wine to a boil and cook until reduced by half, 15 to 20 minutes.
• When the stock has simmered for 6 hours, strain it through a chinois and combine the strained stock with the reduced red wine. Bring the stock to a boil, lower the heat to a hard simmer and reduce the stock until it has a consistency that coats the back of spoon and is about 2 quarts (8 cups) in volume, up to 1 hour. Season with salt and pepper and then strain the sauce though a chinois again.

ESPAGNOLE SAUCE

Steps:

• Cook carrot and onion in butter in a 3-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until golden, 7 to 8 minutes. Add flour and cook roux over moderately low heat, stirring constantly, until medium brown, 6 to 10 minutes. Add hot stock in a fast stream, whisking constantly to prevent lumps, then add tomato purée, garlic, celery, peppercorns, and bay leaf and bring to a boil, stirring. Reduce heat and cook at a bare simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until reduced to about 3 cups, about 45 minutes.
• Pour sauce through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, discarding solids.
• *Available at some specialty foods shops and cooking.com (stock requires a dilution ratio of 1:16; 1/4 cup concentrate to 4 cups water).