Name: Gastrique (caramel sauce)
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Sour/sweet sauce base
Ingredients: Lumps of sugar; wine vinegar

Gastrique (caramel sauce)

For: Sour/sweet sauce base

Time: 25 minutes

Difficulty:

Published on : 1 Aug. 2013

Author: Chef Philippe

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Ingredients for Sour/sweet sauce base:

Method for Gastrique (caramel sauce):

Prepare all ingredients.

Place lumps of sugar and wine vinegar in a saucepan.

Bring to a boil...

...and continue cooking until you obtain a blended caramel. This caramel is named "gastrique".

You will just need to finish the sauce by adding gradually a sauce stock of your choice (veal, duck...) to the gastrique.

Adjust seasoning...

...and battre in butter. This preparation is used in the well-known recipe of "canard à l'Orange".

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