Finish Beurre Blanc Sauce

Video Transcript

" Hi! I'm Louis Ortiz on behalf of Expert Village. We are back to show you the final preparation for the Beurre Blanc Sauce and all I'm going to do is crank the heat up just a little bit so that we maintain a simmer on our reduction and our reduction started off with white wine vinegar and white wine as well as some shallots. We reduced that down and we added 2 ½ tablespoons of heavy whipping cream. So the heavy whipping cream has actually reduced to what we want. It's kind of this gummy, like a light syrupy consistency that is really nice. So we are going to go ahead and start throwing in some cold butter pieces here and what I want to do is this is a typical French technique which is mounting with butter. They use this technique in a lot of different sauces and things and this one we are just kind of gently swirl this around so that the whole butter folds into our mix here and it is going to make this nice rich creamy buttery sauce that will have this nice acid element that will cut through all these fats because we are using heavy cream and heavy butter; whole butter I should say. You will always want to have an acid ingredient within them to cut through and the shallots actually add some nice sugar and little bit of pungency in the inside which is really nice. We are going to go ahead and keep swirling this around. If you make a big enough batch of this, you can actually whisk in the butter but since we have just a smaller batch like we have here, I am just kind of swirling this around. I cut smaller pieces of the cold butter so that it would melt evenly. I'll just go ahead and just use all that. It'll be a done deal. Crank that fire up just a little bit and we are almost done. We've broken the video up into sections so that you can see one step at a time but once you get the hang of it, it really does boil down. It's about a 3 to 4 minute process. That my friends is the finished product; really nice clean opaque color with a light yellow and some cream mixed in and I am just going to keep that on low and we are going to go ahead and top this off on whatever protein dish we see fit. Again, this goes really well with white fish, some grilled shrimp even and also a lot of chicken dishes, so enjoy that. "