Sauces

Brown Sauce

Ingredients

  • 2 Tbsp butter
  • 1 small onion, chopped
  • 2 Tbsp flour
  • 1 cup stock or water
  • 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce

    Using a small saucepan fry onion in butter until brown. Add flour and stir with wooden spoon, cooking until mixture is light brown. Remove from heat, add the liquid gradually. stirring continuously. Return to heat and stir until boiling. Add remaining ingredients, reduce heat and simmer 1 minute.

    Vatiations

  • Tomato Sauce - add 1 cup chopped tomatoes and 1 Tbsp chopped bacon. Simmer 15 minutes.
  • Mushroom Sauce - add 50g mushrooms, chopped and sauteed, or 1 small can of mushrooms.
  • Onion Sauce - use 1 large onion instead of 1 small onion.