Sauce Robert facts for kids
Sauce Robert is a tasty brown mustard sauce from France. It's known as a "small sauce" or "compound sauce." This means it's made by adding ingredients to a basic sauce. Sauce Robert starts with a rich brown sauce called demi-glace. Demi-glace itself comes from one of the five main "mother sauces" in French cooking. These five basic sauces are béchamel, velouté, espagnole, sauce tomate, and hollandaise.
To make Sauce Robert, chefs cook chopped onions in butter until they are soft but not brown. Then, they add white wine and cook it down until it's reduced. After that, they mix in demi-glace and some pepper. The final touch is adding mustard, which gives the sauce its special flavor.
This sauce is perfect with red meats, especially grilled pork. It adds a delicious, tangy taste to the meal.
History of Sauce Robert
Sauce Robert is a very old recipe! It's one of the first special sauces ever written down. In the early 1800s, a famous chef named Marie-Antoine Carême organized 78 different sauces. Only two of these sauces, Sauce Robert and remoulade, were found in much older cookbooks.
For example, a cookbook from 1691 called Le Cuisinier Roial et Bourgeois included Sauce Robert. It also appears in a famous fairy tale! In Charles Perrault's version of Sleeping Beauty from 1696, the Queen Mother wants Sleeping Beauty and her children served "à la sauce Robert." This shows how well-known the sauce was even back then.
An early version of Sauce Robert was also in Le Cuisinier François (1651). This book was written by François Pierre La Varenne. It's considered a very important book for modern French cooking.
See also
In Spanish: Salsa Robert para niños
