Sauces and Dressings (2024)

FAQs

What is sauce and dressing? ›

Normally a sauce is a liquid or thickened liquid based in oil, milk, butter, broth or tomatoes that is used to enhance food. Salad dressing is a liquid only used on salads usually vinegar, lemon, and oil based.

As such, mayo straddles the line between both categories; this is because context is most important when figuring out whether it's a condiment or sauce. Mayo itself is a sauce, a role it retains when heated or stirred into a recipe. Yet it turns into a condiment when it's spread onto something finished.

The five mother sauces are hollandaise, tomato (sauce tomat), bechamel, Espagnole, and veloute. French chef Auguste Escoffier identified the five mother sauces, forever associating them with French cuisine. However, mother sauces are relevant in all modern cooking practices.

Sauces considered mother sauces. In order (left to right, top to bottom): béchamel, espagnole, tomato, velouté, hollandaise, and mayonnaise.

Ranch Dressing

The ranch is hands down America's most beloved salad dressings. It is made from a number of ingredients such as buttermilk, mayonnaise, mustard, garlic, onion, chives, salt, and pepper.

French dressing is the oldest one on our list, but vinegar and oil dressing goes back nearly two-thousand years to ancient Babylonia.

Fry sauce is a condiment often served with French fries or tostones (twice-fried plantain slices) in many places in the world. It is usually a combination of one part tomato ketchup and two parts mayonnaise.

What is a thin sauce called? ›

A coulis (/kuːˈliː/ koo-LEE) is a form of thin sauce made from puréed and strained vegetables or fruits. A vegetable coulis is commonly used on meat and vegetable dishes, and it can also be used as a base for soups or other sauces. Fruit coulis are most often used on desserts.

There are 5 types of Mother Sauce namely Hollandaise Sauce, Bechamel Sauce, Tomato Sauce, Veloute Sauce, Espagnole Sauce. but of the 5 types of Mother Sauce, Mother Sauce has basic ingredients as the basic sauce for those 5 types of Mother Sauce.

The most popular sauces in the United States include ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, BBQ sauce and hot sauce.