How to cook lemon sauce?
Lemon fruits can be called a true gift of nature. Lemon firmly settled in the refrigerator and on the table at any hostess.It contains a large amount of vitamins, various essential oils. Lemon is used not only in 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.
Features
Any food is a source of energy. An important element in cooking is seasoning in the form of spices, greens, which give it a variety of flavors.
Lemon sauce can be 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 fill them with various dishes is a minute thing. Recipes for its preparation, there are many.
Universal
Lemon sauce, serving as a dressing for meat and fish dishes, consists of:
- lemon peel and lemon juice - about 3 tbsp. l .;
- 6 tbsp. l olive or corn oil;
- mustard seeds;
- 1/2 teaspoon of sugar and salt;
- a pinch of black pepper;
- basil in leaves for decoration.
Cooking:
- Zest has a special flavor and gives the taste of the dish. It is cut and finely cut. Lemon juice is squeezed out completely to another container and the already-grated lemon peel is added to it.
- Mustard should be without lumps, so pounded very carefully. Pureed mustard and pepper are poured into lemon juice, mixed.
- Now it's time to add the same butter, sugar, salt and beat well until a homogeneous mixture.
As an ornament, you can use basil, which will not only decorate, but also give the sauce piquancy.
"Fragrant fish"
In this fish sauce there is a gentle creamy taste and light sourness. These are exactly the tastes that fit the 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:
- Take any container for frying, which is poured water. Now you can add mustard and yolk. The resulting mixture is stirred until a homogeneous mass is obtained. The mixture is cooked on low heat.
- Oil should be diced. It should be gradually added to the mass, which is boiled on the fire. After cooling, lemon and greens are added.
"A special case"
This is the recipe that the fish will turn into a true masterpiece. The sauce will be thick, fragrant, with excellent taste. It is best eaten with shrimps.
It will require half a lemon, 2 yolks and 1 glass of cream.
Cooking:
- The yolks are combined with lemon zest, which is crushed. This also adds sugar and salt. The mass is whipped to a state of foam.
- The cream just warms up. They should not boil. Heated cream is gently added to the resulting mass and cooked 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. With it you can cook mussels, squids, scallops and many other seafood delicacies. The sauce consists of shrimp, lemon, garlic, butter (roasting, dressing). It also includes wine, sifted flour, a glass of water and spices to taste.
Cooking method:
- Peeled and chopped garlic mixed with greens. Together, they must be crushed again.
- Shrimps fried in a pan in butter are added to the same place. On a small fire cooked dish stews a little more.
- The next additions will be lemon peel, a teaspoon of lemon juice and parsley. The mixture must stand a little on the fire.
- Putting another frying pan with vegetable oil, flour is added to it. As soon as the flour color becomes golden hue, boiled water is added. Everything is mixed up.
- As soon as the sauce thickens, shrimp, greens, wine, salt and spices are added to taste.
Shrimp sauce is considered ready when it reaches the consistency of sour cream.
Classic cream
Lemon sauce on cream 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 tasty. Cooking sauce is quite simple. The recipe does not contain products that are unusual, expensive, or difficult to obtain. Cooking does not take much time.
For the cream sauce, lemons are large, dense, intact, without dents. Cream must be fatty. Milk is never used instead of cream.
Step-by-step recipe:
- Butter is lowered into the cooking container and melted.
- Flour is poured into the oil, everything is mixed. The frying process takes place with constant stirring.
- The heated cream slowly pours into the flour.
- Cooked sauce over low heat until thick sour cream. Salt and pepper.
- The lemon itself and its peel are ground on a grater with small cells. Before this, 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 lead to the fact that the cream does not turn into a curd mass.
- Peel in the sauce is added only after lemon juice. As soon as the mixture boils, remove it immediately from the fire.
- Parsley finely minced, added to the not yet cooled sauce.
Lemon sauce will be a great seasoning for meat, especially for pork. Pork chops are juicy on their own, but they will be even tastier with the addition of this sauce. The goulash will have a terrific taste if you extinguish it with such lemon sauce.
If a poultry dish is prepared, the sauce and it will give an extraordinary aroma and taste. Often, lemon sauce is used when cooking poultry in the oven with potatoes.
Italian
Products that are required for making lemon sauce - olive oil, honey - 1 tablespoon, lemon, various spices (preferably Italian), salt. From the lemon should squeeze the juice, 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 recipes for Caesar salad include lemon, more precisely, lemon juice. He gives the salad spice.
The 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 from one side, and only then cook. It would be more correct to say, do not boil, but podvarit, since they are immersed in boiling water for no more than 40 seconds.
- The eggs cooked this way are cleaned and poured into a container. Pounded with a fork very carefully so that there are no lumps left.
- Garlic should be rubbed. It should be added to the egg and mix until smooth.
- 1/2 of a lemon is squeezed out. It turns out lemon juice, which is added to the already mixed products.
- It also adds olive oil.
- The mixture is salted, peppered and whipped until a thick homogeneous mass.
This dressing is perfect for any kind of Caesar salad, as well as Italian pasta.
Boiled yolks and mustard sauce for Caesar salad. Ingredients: eggs, mustard, olive oil, spices and lemon juice.
Preparing the sauce like this:
- A pair of eggs boiled hard boiled. The cooled eggs are cut in half. From them yolks are taken out.
- Putting the yolks in the cooking pot, they carefully warm up with a fork. Then they add lemon juice and mustard.
- You should be very careful about the process of adding oil. It flows slowly, neatly and constantly stirring.
- To obtain a homogeneous mass, the butter is thoroughly whipped. Repeated beating should be done after putting spices.
Standard cooking methods and recipes of familiar dishes get bored with time, so you want to give them a special touch. Here comes to the aid of a wonderful fruit - lemon. He helps housewives to turn standard dishes into real culinary masterpieces.
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