Bleu Sauce
CATEGORIES
INGREDIENTS
- 1 onion, chopped fine
- 3 TB butter
- 11 oz of Beef, Mushroom or Game stock such as Venison or Elk
- 1 bouquet garni of parsley, bay leaf and thyme, wrapped in a leek leaf
- Kosher Salt to taste
- Black pepper to taste
- 4 tsp Tarragon leaves, finely chopped
- 4 1/2 oz Saga Blue, Blue Castello, Stilton, Roquefort or Maytag Blue cheese, cubed
- 3 oz Heavy cream
DIRECTIONS
- In a sauté pan over medium heat sweat the onion in the butter.
- Add Flour and continue cooking over low heat until flour begins to brown slightly and smells nutty.
- Add the stock, and bouquet garni… stir.
- Add salt and pepper.
- Simmer on a slow flame and stir continually for 10 minutes, then filter with a fine strainer into another pan.
- Add the tarragon and the blue cheese; Stir until cheese is almost melted.
- Remove pan from heat and add the heavy cream, and stir.
- Place the pan on the stove and heat for a few minutes, stirring continually.