Discover all the ways to make sauce your secret weapon.
Cucumber Salad with Creamy Roasted Garlic and Miso Dressing
Just Add Sauce gives you all the tools to create great meals by offering many routes to dinner. Discover foolproof versions of classic, restaurant-style sauces and recipes to pair with them or improvise and create new sauce + food pairings. This is a sauce cookbook for every kitchen and every cook.
Maybe you’ve always wanted to learn how to make a killer wine reduction pan sauce or perfect homemade pestos. Maybe you tasted an amazing Mexican mole sauce in a restaurant and now you want to make one at home. You can find all those recipes here. What makes Just Add Sauce unique—and endlessly practical—are the recipe pairings and “more ways to use” suggestions offered for the sauces.
Creamy, silky, lemony hollandaise is high-maintenance; it’s prone to breaking because it requires butter to be emulsified into egg yolks. Traditionally a stable hollandaise is achieved with a double boiler, slow cooking, and constant monitoring. Now you can just use your blender.
Stock your freezer with a few simmering sauces—from Indian and Thai curries to Mexican, Tex-Mex, Asian, Italian-style, and All-American sauces—and a variety of weeknight-friendly meals are just minutes away.
The right sauce can make your stir-fry taste like it came from a high-quality restaurant. By adding a few key ingredients to your pantry arsenal, you can rely on these savory sauces as convenient standbys for a quick dinner. You’ll find classic sauces such as teriyaki, sweet and sour, Sichuan, and sesame and recipes to build favorite noodle and rice dishes.
We’ve got your sweet tooth covered with foolproof caramel sauces (the secret is adding water so the sugar melts evenly), decadent chocolate sauces (choosing the right type of chocolate is key), fruit sauces (both refined and playful), and egg- and cream-based sauces (great with pies or bread pudding or with a simple bowl of fresh fruit).