How to Make Sauce
How to Make Pan Sauce
All lessons in the How to Make Sauce section:
Lesson Goals
Pan sauce is an à la minute sauce made in the same pan in which ingredients, especially meats, have been sautéed, seared or pan-fried. The flavors can range from simple to quite complex.
In this lesson, you will learn the essential steps for making a pan sauce. Soon you’ll be able to make some of those delicious and fancy restaurant sauces…without a recipe.
At the end of this cooking school lesson, you will be able to:
- explain what sucs are and why they are important to a pan sauce
- understand how to develop sucs properly
- understand how to build flavors in a pan sauce
- understand the proper deglazing technique
- determine how far to reduce a pan sauce
- know how to enrich and finish a pan sauce
Pre-requisites
In partnership with:
Northwest Culinary Academy of Vancouver
