Fish

Cream Sauce

Heavy cream cooked in a skillet over butter (sometimes with garlic, herbs or peppercorns) until it thickens into a sauce: for steak, chicken or pasta. A pan sauce: in the same skillet where the chicken or fish was seared, in the fat left in it, fry shallot, onion, garlic or mushrooms, reduce wine, and cook the cream; the chicken or fish goes back into the sauce for a few minutes.

⏱ 4 min

🧀 Dairy 🥬 Vegetarian 🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

1
Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat.
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2
Add the cream and bring to a boil. Turn down the heat and simmer 3–4 minutes, until the sauce thickens.
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💡Cream thickens as its water evaporates: cook at a gentle simmer and stir, because a long, hard boil can make it split.
💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.

245calories

1 gprotein

2 gcarbs

25 gfat

● protein 2%● carbs 3%● fat 95%

Per serving (67 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

Butter: measured in tbsp in this recipe: 1 tbsp = 14 g · 717 kcal per 100 g · More about Butter →
Heavy cream: measured in cup in this recipe: 1 cup = 240 g · 324 kcal per 100 g · More about Heavy cream →

🔧 Tools needed (2) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)

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⚙️ What you can change

Possible additions: butter · Shallot · onion · garlic · Mushrooms · Mushrooms after the onion (time) (about 8 minutes) · White wine · Sweet paprika · Smoked paprika · Cherry tomatoes · Coconut milk instead of cream · Mustard · Dill · Poured over the dish when serving (over the dish) · Rosemary · Thyme · Salt and pepper · Sauce time in words (1 minute) · Green peppercorns · Capers · Stock · Spinach in the sauce · Lemon juice
Frying the base in the skillet: 3 minutes
Reducing the wine: 2 minutes
Cue that the wine is ready: reduces
Cooking the cherry tomatoes (minutes): 3
Frying the garlic alone: 1 minute
Cooking the spinach in the sauce (minutes): 2