Mushroom sauce

 ( Sauces ) 

Mushroom sauce is a white or brown sauce prepared using Edible mushroom as its primary ingredient. It can be prepared in different styles using various ingredients, and is used to top a variety of foods.

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Overview In cooking, mushroom sauce is sauce with Edible mushroom as the primary ingredient. Often cream-based, it can be served with veal, chicken and poultry, pasta, and other foods such as vegetables.

M. Truman (2025). 9781405415118, Parragon, Incorporated. . ISBN 9781405415118

M. Urvater (1995). 9781563053474, Workman Pub.. . ISBN 9781563053474

M.H. Jones (2025). 9781579542764, Rodale Books. . ISBN 9781579542764

Some sources also suggest pairing mushroom sauce with fish.

Alice L. McLean (2025). 9780313335747, Greenwood Publishing Group. . ISBN 9780313335747

It is made with mushrooms, butter, cream or olive oil, white wine (some variations may use a mellow red wine) and Black pepper with a wide variety of variations possible with additional ingredients such as shallot, garlic, lemon juice, flour (to thicken the sauce), chicken stock, saffron, basil, parsley, or other herbs. It is a variety of allemande sauce.

Mushroom sauce can also be prepared as a brown sauce.

Canned mushrooms can be used to prepare the sauce.

Better Homes and Gardens Books (Firm) (2025). 9780696222122, Meredith Books. . ISBN 9780696222122

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History Mushroom sauces have been cooked for hundreds of years. An 1864 cookbook includes two recipes, one sauce tournee and one a brown gravy.Eliza Acton , Modern cookery for private families: reduced to a system of easy practice, in a series of carefully tested receipts, in which the principles of Baron Liebig and other eminent writers have been as much as possible applied and explained (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864), p. 123. Found at Internet Archive. Accessed June 15, 2011.

United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a well-known steak lover, was reportedly quite fond of mushroom sauce.

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See also

• List of mushroom dishes
• List of sauces
• Mushroom gravy
• Mushroom ketchup

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External links

• Wolfgang Puck's Pasta with Wild Mushroom Sauce at the Food Network

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