Sauce Crevettes (Shrimp Sauce)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 1 litre Fish Velouté
- 1 décilitre and a half cream
- 1 décilitre and a half fish fumet
- 100 grammes beurre de crevettes
- 25 grammes Beurre rouge
- 3 spoonfuls peeled shrimp tails
- Cayenne
Instructions
- Add the cream and the fish fumet to the Fish Velouté or the sauce Béchamel.
- Reduce to 9 décilitres.
- Off the fire, complete with the beurre de crevettes reinforced with the Beurre rouge, which gives the sauce its pale pink tint, and with the peeled shrimp tails.
- Season lightly with Cayenne.