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Provencale sauce.
When you think about Provence what comes into your mind is
lavender, fresh herbs, tomatoes and sun.
In our sauce today we will use: olive oil, shallots, garlic,
herbes de Provence, salt and pepper, chopped parsley,
veal stock, tomato and white wine.
Heat a sauce pan on high heat to start.
Add the oil.
Add the shallots and sweat the shallots
for about a minute or two.
Cook the shallots on medium, medium-high heat.
Add the garlic and the herbes de Provence.
Turn down the heat to medium, medium-low
and cook for another minute.
Add the tomato, add the wine.
Stir well.
And reduce the liquid by half.
When a sauce is called tomato Provencale, you should think about
tomato, garlic, onions or shallots depending on what you want
and the flavor you want, and the sauce is cooked
and then a stock is added.
So it could be either a fish stock, a chicken stock
or a brown veal stock, depending on the use you will have
for this recipe.
The sauce is really versatile and can be used with seafood,
white meats, red meats and even shellfish.
Beautiful.
Now the sauce is simmering here, so we're just going to wait
about five minutes to reduce the liquid by half,
stirring from time to time.
Mm, great.
The wine has reduced by half,
so now it's time for us to add the stock.
Mix well and simmer the sauce for about
ten minutes to fifteen minutes on medium-low heat.
Season the sauce with a pinch of salt
and freshly ground peppercorn.
This will start to help to release the flavors.
Our sauce is ready.
It's been cooking for about eleven minutes
and it's nicely reduced.
We're going to add the chopped parsley and mix well.
Instead of the chopped parsley, you may use chopped chervil
or chopped basil or a combination of the two or the three.
It's up to you depending on what's available at the market.
Let's taste it now.
Flavorful. The first flavor that comes is the tomato
and the acidity with it and then followed by the garlic
and the shallot and the herbs and the seasoning.
It's very nice.
The vegetables are soft, but not too soft.
They just have a bite. Very nice.