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Sauces & Soups

Welcome to Stella Culinary's Sauces And Soups Video Index. This series will start by demonstrating basic sauce making techniques, including stocks, pan sauces, and mother sauces, and then progress to more advanced creations. These videos are meant to be an accompaniment to The Stella Culinary School Podcast, which is our flag-ship audio lecture series. It is highly recommended you listen to Stella Culinary School Podcast Episodes 2, 3 & 9-13.

If you have any questions, you can post them to our community forum, or Ask Chef Jacob.

May

2011

SNS 001| Classic Roasted Veal Stock

By jacob burton

In SCS 2| Stocks Part 1, we went through the science and technique of making a veal stock. This video will take you through the step by step process of how to make a classic, roasted veal stock. If you're like most people and don't have a wood-fire oven, worry not. This technique can easily be accomplished with any oven that can reach 500°F/260°C.

May

2011

SNS 002| Chicken Stock

By jacob burton

This video will take you through the process of making a roasted chicken stock as discussed in SCS 3| Stocks Part 2.

May

2011

SNS 003| Vegetable Stock

By jacob burton

This video will teach you how to make a classic vegetable stock.

May

2011

SNS 004| Classic Beurre Blanc Sauce

By jacob burton

How to Make Sauce Beurre Blanc - Video Index

This video will teach you how to make a classic pan using white wine and butter. Beurre meaning "butter" and "blanc" meaning white, this sauce is classically paired with fish, vegetables, and light poultry dishes. For a heavier flavor that's more appropriate for red meat, you can make a beurre rouge by swapping red wine for the white.

May

2011

SNS 005| Pan Reduction Sauce

By jacob burton

How to Make a Pan Reduction Sauce - Video Technique

In this video, learn how to make a basic pan reduction sauce using stock. A pan sauce works great for any number of pan roasted meats including steak, poultry, lamb and pork.

Oct

2011

SNS 006| How to Make a Stabilized Beurre Blanc Using Xanthan Gum

By jacob burton

How to Make a Stabilized Beurre Blanc Using Xanthan Gum - Video Technique

A traditional beurre blanc is a finicky sauce that can easily break, especially if it's not made to order and served immediately. This video will teach you how to stabalize a beurre blanc by using a blender and xanthan gum. This approach will allow you to make the beurre blanc in advance and hold it warm until you're ready to serve.

Nov

2011

SNS 007| How to Make and Use a Roux

By jacob burton

How to Make and Use a Roux - Video Technique

This video will teach you the proper technique for making and using a roux to thicken sauces. Rouxs are an important component in making an awesome gravy, and is commonly used in hearty stews and soups such as gumbo.

Jan

2012

SNS 008| "Culinary School" Bechamel Sauce

By jacob burton

This video will teach you how to make culinary school bechamel sauce, a milk based cream sauce.

Bechamel is a classic French sauce made with milk. It is one of the Five French Mother Sauces and is used to make derivatives such as Mornay (a simple cheese sauce).

Jan

2012

SNS 009| Escoffier's Bechamel Sauce

By jacob burton

How to Make Escoffier's Bechamel Sauce - Video Technique

In a previous video I demonstrated how to make what I called a "semi-classic" bechamel sauce, which is the version most commonly taught in culinary schools today. However, sauce bechamel has gone through a few evolutions since it's debated creation.

Feb

2012

SNS 010| How to Make Classic Mornay (Cheese Sauce)

By jacob burton

How to Make Classic Mornay (Cheese Sauce) - Video Recipe

This video will teach you how to make a classic mornay (cheese) sauce which is a secondary sauce (derivative) of bechamel, a French Mother Sauce.

Feb

2012

SNS 011| Cauliflower Soup Base

By jacob burton

How to Make Cauliflower Soup - Video Technique

This video will teach you how to make a cauliflower soup base that can be served as is or doctored with different components and garnishes. I will also release a completed dish video that will demonstrate how we plate and serve this soup at Stella.

Feb

2012

SNS 012| How to Reinforce and Reduce Stock

By jacob burton

How to Reinforce and Reduce Stock for Pan Sauces, Demi Glace and Glace di Viande - Video

This video will demonstrate how to concentrate a stock by reducing and reinforcing its flavors. This concentrated stock can then be used to make "a la minute" sauces, such as a pan reduction sauce. Although this process is demonstrated with chicken stock, it is the exact same method used when working with other meat based stocks such as veal, pork and lamb.

Jul

2012

SNS 013| How to Make Classic Fish Stock

By jacob burton

How to Make Fish Stock - Video Technique

In this video you will learn how to make a classic fish stock, which can then be used to make any number of sauces, broths, and soups.

Jul

2012

SNS 014| How to Make White Chicken Stock

By jacob burton

How to Make White Chicken Stock - Video Technique

In this video, I demonstrate a classic version of white chicken stock. White stocks are commonly used for more subtlety flavored sauces, comsommes, and broths. It is also the base for the French Mother Sauce Veloute.

The technique of blanching bones before making a stock is commonly used in Asian cuisine, where a lot of recipes favor delicately flavored broths that are hard to achieve with roasted bones and mirepoix.

Aug

2012

SNS 015| Sauce Vierge

By jacob burton

Sauce vierge is one of my all time favorite sauces. The word "vierge" is French for "virgin," meaning that the ingredients in a vierge are not cooked. This is the sauce that we use for our heirloom tomato caprese, which I will demonstrate in an upcoming video.

Sep

2012

SNS 016| Classic Mayonnaise

By jacob burton

How to Make a Classic Mayonnaise - Video

It may seem silly to ask "what is mayonnaise" since it's common place in most of our lives. People use mayonnaise on sandwiches, as a dressing for salads such as chicken, potato and macaroni, in cakes, and some even put it in their hair to use as a conditioner. Yet some don't actually know that mayonnaise is simply made from emulsifying egg yolks with a neutral flavored oil like vegetable, canola or grape seed.

In this video, I demonstrate a classic mayonnaise recipe that uses egg yolks, canola oil, mustard powder, lemon juice, kosher salt and white pepper. The mayonnaise is made using a simple mixing bowl and whisk but if you have a good blender or food processor, I recommend you use that instead, unless you're trying to bulk up your fore-arms.

Aug

2013

SNS 017| Simple Tomato Sauce For Pasta and Pizza

By jacob burton

How to Make a Simple Tomato Pasta Sauce - Video Recipe

In this video, I demonstrate a super simple tomato sauce that goes great with spaghetti or pasta. Because this tomato sauce is never cooked (only quickly heated right before serving), it maintains a bright color and fresh flavor.

Feb

2014

SNS 018| How to Make Consomme (Classic Clarified Stock)

By jacob burton

Consommé...the old school Frenchy soup with crystal clarity and robust flavors that dwells in the nightmares of culinary school students around the world. While feared and loathed for it’s finicky nature by young cooks, consommé really isn’t scary once you understand the basic concepts behind making it, and how a clarification raft works.

Apr

2015

SNS 019| Understanding the Five French Mother Sauces

By jacob burton

The Five French Mother Sauces - A Brief Overview - Video Lecture

Learn the basics behind the Five French Mother Sauces in this video lecture.

May

2015

SNS 020| The Three Modern Mother Sauces - A Technique Based Approach To Sauce Making

By jacob burton

In this video Chef Jacob shares his technical approach to sauce making, a concept he refers to as the Three Modern Mother Sauces.

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