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Sauce

In cooking, a sauce is a liquid, cream, or semi-solid food, served on or used in preparing other foods. Most sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavour, texture, and visual appeal to a dish. Sauce is a French word probably from the post-classical Latin salsa, derived from the classical salsus 'salted'. Possibly the oldest recorded…

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Sauce

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Avg. degree1.99
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related to Citations · 27
Sauce → Alan, Boston, Classical, Contemporary Sauce Making, Cooking, Darra, Davidson, Food, Harold, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, In Goldstein, ISBN, Jaine, James, McGee, New York, On Food, Oxford University Press, Peterson, Robert
related to Further reading · 22
Sauce → Ch, Company, Cookwise, Corriher, Essential Seafood Cookbook Seafood, Harold, Hows, Inc, ISBN, Knopf, Macmillan, McGee, Murdoch, Murdoch Books, New York, Raymond, Shirley, Successful Cooking, The Curious Cook, The Saucier's Apprentice
related to British · 15
Sauce → Albert, Apple, British, Custard, English, In, India, Marie Rose, Mushroom, Other, Redcurrant, Salad, The, Tomato, Worcestershire
related to French · 11
Sauce → Art, Carême, French, In, It, Many, Marie-Antoine Carême, Middle Ages, Sauces, There, XIXe
related to Middle Eastern · 10
Sauce → Arab, Egypt, Fesenjān, Hummus, Iranian, It, Nowruz, Palestine, Syria, Yalda
related to Caucasian · 9
Sauce → Abkhazia, Ajika, Armenia, Circassian, Georgia, Georgian, Russia, Ships, Tkemali
related to Function · 9
Sauce → Cooking, Cultures, Ethiopian, French, In Asia, Sauces, They, Western, With
related to Latin and Spanish American · 8
Sauce → Americas, Latin, Mexican, Nahua, Salsas, Spanish, Spanish-American, Typical
related to history · 7
Sauce → Aztecs, BCE, Chinese, Greece, One, Other, The Latin
related to Japanese · 7
Sauce → In, Japanese, Miso-based, Ponzu, Sauces, Tonkatsu, Worcestershire

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sauces used cuisine many made cooking may isbn soy french cuisines cream also include often traditional served espagnole indian salsa

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Sauceis aliquid0.90text
Sauceis aFrench word probably from the post-classical Latin salsa0.90text
fryinginstance ofsauces in western cooking generally accompany meats and other proteins that have been subject to a simple cooking process0.80text
India.CaucasianAjika is a spicy hot sauce originating in Abkhaziainstance ofparticularly former colonies0.80text
widely used in Georgian cuisineinstance ofparticularly former colonies0.80text
found also in parts of Russiainstance ofparticularly former colonies0.80text
Armeniainstance ofparticularly former colonies0.80text
and Georgia.Shipsinstance ofparticularly former colonies0.80text
tamarind sauceinstance ofis enjoying increasing popularity at high-end restaurants.IndianIndian cuisines use sauces such as tomato-based sauces with varying spice combinations0.80text
coconut milk-/paste-based saucesinstance ofis enjoying increasing popularity at high-end restaurants.IndianIndian cuisines use sauces such as tomato-based sauces with varying spice combinations0.80text
and chutneysinstance ofis enjoying increasing popularity at high-end restaurants.IndianIndian cuisines use sauces such as tomato-based sauces with varying spice combinations0.80text
kecap manisinstance ofghee and/or cream are also regular ingredients in Indian sauces.IndonesianIndonesian cuisine uses typical sauces0.80text

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