How to make lemon sauce?
Lemon fruits can be called a real gift of nature. Lemon has firmly settled both in the refrigerator and on the table of any hostess. It contains a large amount of vitamins, a variety of essential oils. Lemon is used not only for food, but also as a medicine. It strengthens the immune system, improves digestion, makes the dishes to which it is added very tasty and fragrant.
Peculiarities
Any food is a source of energy. An important element in cooking are seasonings in the form of spices, herbs, which give it different flavors.
Lemon sauce can become a frequent guest of your table, as it is the highlight of many dishes. It makes food tender and juicy in taste. Making lemon sauce to season various dishes with it is a matter of minutes. There are many recipes for its preparation.
Universal
Lemon sauce, acting as a dressing for meat and fish dishes, consists of:
- lemon zest and lemon juice - about 3 tbsp. l.;
- 6 art. l. olive or corn oil;
- mustard seeds;
- 1/2 teaspoon of sugar and salt;
- a pinch of black pepper;
- basil leaves for garnish.
Cooking:
- It is the zest that has a special aroma and gives flavor to the dish. It is cut and finely chopped. Lemon juice is squeezed completely into another bowl and already grated lemon zest is added there.
- Mustard should be without lumps, so it is rubbed very carefully.Pureed mustard and pepper are poured into lemon juice, mixed.
- Now it's time to add butter, sugar, salt here and beat well until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.
As a decoration, you can use basil, which will become not only a decoration, but also add piquancy to the sauce.
"Fragrant Fish"
This fish sauce has a delicate creamy taste and slight sourness. These are exactly the taste qualities that are suitable for fish dishes. Garlic and mustard sauces go well with lemon, so they can be combined.
Would need:
- a glass of lemon juice;
- butter - 50 g;
- egg yolk;
- a teaspoon of mustard;
- glass of water;
- You can add green onions.
Cooking:
- Any frying container is taken into which water is poured. Now you can add mustard and yolk. The resulting mixture is stirred until a homogeneous mass is obtained. The mixture is boiled over low heat.
- Butter should be diced. It must be gradually added to the mass, which is cooked on fire. After cooling, lemon and herbs are added.
"A special case"
This is the recipe that will turn the fish into a true masterpiece. The sauce will be thick, fragrant, with excellent taste. Best eaten with shrimp.
It will require half a lemon, 2 yolks and 1 cup of cream.
Cooking:
- The yolks are combined with lemon zest, which is pre-crushed. Sugar and salt are also added here. The mass is whipped to a state of foam.
- The cream just heats up. They shouldn't boil. Heated cream is carefully added to the resulting mass and boiled until thickened.
- Now you can add lemon juice, bring the mass to the desired density and cool.
With wine
This sauce is suitable for seafood dishes.You can cook mussels, squids, scallops and many other seafood delicacies with it. The sauce consists of shrimp, lemon, garlic, oil (roasting, dressing). It also includes wine, sifted flour, a glass of water and spices to taste.
Cooking method:
- Peeled and chopped garlic is mixed with herbs. Joined together, they must be crushed again additionally.
- Shrimps fried in a frying pan in oil are added there. On a small fire, the prepared dish is still languishing a little.
- The next additives will be lemon zest, a teaspoon of lemon juice and parsley. The mixture must be on fire for a while.
- Putting another pan with vegetable oil, flour is added to it. As soon as the color of the flour becomes a golden hue, boiled water is added. Everything is mixed up.
- As soon as the sauce thickens, shrimp, herbs, wine, salt and spices are put there to taste.
The shrimp sauce is ready when it reaches the consistency of sour cream.
Classic on cream
Lemon cream sauce is suitable for both meat and fish and dishes from them. It revives cooked food, which is familiar to everyone, makes it more varied and tastier. Making the sauce is pretty easy. There are no unusual, expensive or hard-to-purchase products in the recipe. Cooking does not take much time.
For cream sauce, lemons are large, dense, intact, without dents. Cream must be heavy. Milk is never used instead of cream.
Step by step cooking recipe:
- The butter is dropped into the cooking container and melted.
- Flour is poured into the oil, everything is mixed. The frying process takes place with constant stirring.
- The warmed cream is slowly poured into the flour.
- The sauce is cooked over low heat until thick sour cream. Salt and pepper.
- The lemon itself and its zest are ground on a grater with small cells. Before that, the lemon is cut into 2 halves so that you can squeeze the juice.
- The resulting lemon liquid is filtered and poured into the mixture in a thin stream. Constant stirring will cause the cream to not turn into a curd mass.
- The zest is added to the sauce only after the lemon juice. As soon as the mixture boils, it must be immediately removed from the heat.
- Parsley is finely chopped, added to the sauce that has not yet cooled down.
Lemon sauce will be a great seasoning for meat, especially pork. Pork chops are juicy on their own, but will be even tastier with the addition of this sauce. Goulash will also have an amazing taste if you stew it with such lemon sauce.
If a poultry dish is being prepared, the sauce will give it an unusual aroma and taste. Often lemon sauce is used when cooking poultry in the oven with potatoes.
Italian
Products that will be required to prepare lemon sauce - olive oil, honey - 1 tablespoon, lemon, various spices (preferably Italian), salt. Squeeze the juice from the lemon, strain it several times. It must be completely transparent. All components of the recipe are thoroughly mixed, and the sauce can immediately be considered ready for use.
For "Caesar"
Caesar salad is one of the most popular dishes. There are many options for its preparation. All Caesar salad recipes include a lemon, or rather, lemon juice. It adds spice to the salad.
Caesar salad with classic dressing consists of chicken eggs, olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper and lemon juice.
Cooking:
- Eggs are washed very carefully, as they need to be pierced on one side, and only then boiled. It would be more correct to say, not boil, but boil, as they are dipped in boiling water for no more than 40 seconds.
- Eggs boiled in this way are cleaned and poured into a container. Pound with a fork very carefully so that no lumps remain.
- The garlic must be mashed. It should be added to the egg and mixed until smooth.
- 1/2 of the lemon is squeezed. It turns out lemon juice, which is added to already mixed products.
- Olive oil is also added to this.
- The mixture is salted, peppered and whipped until a thick homogeneous mass is obtained.
This dressing is perfect for any kind of Caesar salad, as well as Italian pasta.
Sauce of boiled yolks and mustard for Caesar salad. Required ingredients: eggs, mustard, olive oil, spices and lemon juice.
The sauce is prepared like this:
- A couple of eggs are hard boiled. Cooled eggs are cut in half. The yolks come out of them.
- Putting the yolks in a container for cooking, they are thoroughly kneaded with a fork. Then lemon juice and mustard are added to them.
- You should be very careful about the process of adding oil. It is poured in slowly, gently and constantly stirred.
- To obtain a homogeneous mass, the butter is thoroughly whipped. Repeated whipping must be done after the spices are put.
Standard cooking methods and recipes for familiar dishes get bored over time, so I want to give them special notes. This is where a wonderful fruit comes to the rescue - lemon. He helps housewives turn standard dishes into real culinary masterpieces.
See the video below for how to make Lemon Sauce.