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Meunière Sauce
Created by Chef Remy
Golden brown butter kissed with bright lemon and a splash of Worcestershire, the sauce that transforms humble pan-fried fish into something worth fighting over at the dinner table.
Brown butter is the foundation of honest cooking. You take something simple, apply heat and attention, and end up with something that tastes like it came from a restaurant. That's the magic of meunière sauce.
My grandmother Evangeline made this sauce every Friday during Lent. She'd stand at her cast iron, watching the butter go from yellow to gold to the color of hazelnuts. Never took her eyes off it. "The butter tells you when it's ready," she'd say. "You just have to listen." She was right. The moment it smells like toasted nuts, you're there. Wait five seconds too long and you've got burnt butter, which tastes like regret.
The Creole twist is the Worcestershire. Traditional French meunière is just butter, lemon, and parsley. We add that splash of fermented complexity because down here, we believe more flavor is always better. At Lagniappe, we finish every piece of trout, redfish, and flounder with this sauce. It takes three minutes to make and turns a Tuesday night fish into something special.
Ingredients
unsalted butter
Quantity
8 tablespoons (1 stick)
cut into tablespoon-sized pieces
fresh lemon juice
Quantity
2 tablespoons
about 1 lemon
Worcestershire sauce
Quantity
1 teaspoon
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| unsalted buttercut into tablespoon-sized pieces | 8 tablespoons (1 stick) |
| fresh lemon juiceabout 1 lemon | 2 tablespoons |
| Worcestershire sauce | 1 teaspoon |
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