Vegetarian Condiment and Sauce Recipe Collection
This collection of vegetarian condiment and sauce recipes is invaluable to any vegetarian cook. Sauces enable a cook to add the finishing touch to a wide variety of both sweet and savory dishes. A sauce, gravy, or simple glaze can make or break a good meal.
Keeping Sauces Hot:
Sauces to be served hot can be kept in a double boiler over hot water.
Hollandaise and other egg-based sauces should be kept over warm water, otherwise they will become thin or curdled.
TIP: I keep my sauces warm in a small thermos container. I can keep them warm for a couple of hours this way. You can also make a sauce and travel with it.
Beverages
Basic Simple Syrup Recipe
Also know as Sugar Syrup, BarSyrup, and Rock CandySyrup, is nothing more than water and sugar. Itis the secret ingredient to the best cold homemade beverages, cocktails, and other drink recipes. With this recipe you can make as small or as large a batch as you wish and store it in the refrigerator in a well sealed bottle.
Butters
Butters
Beurre Monte Butter
Using just a little bit of water helps the emulsion process in preparing Beurre Monte. Whether you emulsify 4 tablespoons (2 ounces) or 1 pound of butter, just a tablespoon of water will do. Any amount of Beurre Monte can be made using this method.
Butter Ghee and Clarified Butter
Regular butter is made up of butterfat, milk solids, and water. Clarified butter and ghee are translucent golden butterfat left over after the milk solids and water are removed. In short, clarified butter is just butter that contains only pure butterfat. It has a higher smoke point than regular butter, thus allowing you to be able to cook at higher temperatures, and won’t spoil as quickly.
Flavored Butters (Compound Butters, Finishing Butter, or Beurre Compos/font>)
A compound butter is butter that has been flavored by blending softened butter together with various ingredients. These can be savory or sweet. These tasty butter spreads are ideal for tea bread, muffins, scones, and pancakes.
Truffle Butter
Truffle butter is an excellent and easy way to prepare wild truffles. Nothing is better than a perfectly cooked steak with some truffle butter on top before serving. The ways to use and eat this wonderful truffle butter are endless. Let your imagination be your guide!
Dessert Sauces
Preserved Lemons – Lemons Preserved in Salt
What are preserved lemons? A preserved lemon is a lemon that has been soaking in lemon juice and salt for a period of time. During this process, the lemon loses the bitter taste and becomes sweet. Preserved lemons are very powerful and can be used in a myriad of recipes.
This Black Cherry Sauce is absolutely great on cakes and ice cream. Especially chocolate cakes!
This sauce is sinful – so rich and wonderful! Absolutely great on cakes and ice cream.
Excellent served on pound cakes and over fresh fruit.
You never need to buy prepared caramel sauce again! Making your own homemade caramel sauce is a lot easier than you might think, and it takes practically no time at all.
Photo tutorial on how to caramelize sugar. Caramelizing sugar is a term most often applied to melting sugar until it becomes a caramel color liquid.
Chocolate Sauce – Perfect Chocolate Sauce
Making a great chocolate sauce couldn’t be easier! No vanilla and no sugar is added, just high-quality chocolate with cream, water, and a little butter to give just the right texture and taste. This truly is chocolate sauce perfection! Once you fall in love with this chocolate sauce, you might want to keep a jar of it handy in your refrigerator. The velvety sauce is amazingly versatile.
Chocolate Sauce – Diet Chocolate Sauce – A wonderful low fat, low calorie, and low carbohydrate chocolate sauce to serve over fruit, cake, etc.
Commercial creme fraiche is quite expensive, so the homemade version is a life saver.
Dulce de Leche (Arequipe and Manjar Blanco)
Dulce de leche, pronounced DOOL-say duh LAY-chay) is a luscious sweetened milk sauce that is literally finger-linking good! The name means “milk sweet,” “milk jam,” and “sweet milk sauce.”
Hazelnut Creme Filling and Maple Creme Filling
Recipes are courtesy of Ellen Easton of Tea Travels. These are great filling for your home-baked Cream Puffs.
A British teatime favorite. This sweet, yet tart, velvety spread is heavenly on freshly baked scones, muffins, and tea breads.
Fresh strawberries are absolutely delicious when served with this Maple Sauce.
This is the best recipe that I have ever found to substitute for the store-bought marshmallow fluff. It is very easy to make and so delicious. Use this homemade marshmallow fluff/cream in any recipe that calls for marshmallow fluff.
An easy-to-make mock Devonshire Cream. Great for your tea party.
Making a great chocolate sauce couldn’t be easier! No vanilla and no sugar is added, just high-quality chocolate with cream, water, and a little butter to give just the right texture and taste. This truly is chocolate sauce perfection! Once you fall in love with this chocolate sauce, you might want to keep a jar of it handy in your refrigerator. The velvety sauce is amazingly versatile.
The French refer to this as Sabayon and it is used as a dessert or a sauce. It is light and refreshing and perfect as warm weather dessert.
Fruit Salad Dressings
The 1-2-3 Fruit Salad Dressing is from an older Betty Crocker Cookbook. The combination of citrus fruits in the dressing gives the fruits a wonderful delicious flavor!
This Banana Fruit Salad Dressing is very refreshing and also low in calories. It is very light and compliments all fruits. You will never want to make a “yucky” canned fruit salad again!
Jams, Jellies and Relishes
Simple basic fruit purees capture the sweet/tart balance of the summer fruit to use in fruit drinks, ice cream, sorbets, grantias, and whatever else you might want to use them in.
Enjoy this wonderful jam at your next Afternoon Tea Party.
A sweet, hot relish of pickled chopped vegetables. There are probably as many varieties of Chow Chow as there are Southern cooks.
This wonderful recipe is by Brad Bolton of San Diego, CA. The jalapeno jelly is fantastic with cream cheese and triscuit crackers! It looks so pretty in red and green (for Christmas presents in pretty jelly jars).
This exotic and gorgeously pretty lavender jelly will truly delight your taste buds with pleasure. In fact, you will absolutely LOVE the taste! It can be served as an unusual accompaniment to meats, such as lamb or poultry.
Enjoy this wonderful jam at your next Afternoon Tea Party.
This jelly would be wonderful served as a dessert with ice cream, pudding, or cream.
Wait until you try this delicious cheese relish!
Other Sauces
From the recipe files of Robert Hammond, chef and owner of The Kitchen at Honeyman Creek Farm in Warren, Oregon.
Crema Agria is Mexico’s version of sour cream. It can be found in some supermarkets in the dairy section, but if you cannot find it and do not want to simply substitute American sour cream, you can make it easily at home.
Aged Balsamic Vinegar, or as it is known in Italy, tradizionale, accumulates its flavor in a variety of wooden casks for as long as one hundred years. The result is a very concentrated dark brown, thick sweet vinegar, and it is a great luxury. If you don’t have it in your pantry – chefs have learned to do as the Italians so – reduce your balsamic vinegar with a little brown sugar. It’s a good second. Great on beef, poultry, pork, and seafood!
What would the famous Egg Benedict be without a great Hollandaise Sauce? Also great served on cooked asparagus.
According to Julia Child, mayonnaise is something every cook must confidently and rapidly whip up on command with nary a qualm, because it is one of the elemental cookery procedures.
Three easy-to-make horseradish sauces.
After visiting New Zealand and tasting their wonderful mint sauces, I put together this mint sauce recipe. Very simple to make and so good!
You’ll love the “zip” that the green peppercorns add to this sauce.
Roasted garlic is milder than raw garlic. In fact, raw garlic is two to four times stronger in flavor. Garlic becomes very mellow and easy to spread after cooking.
You’ll never buy tartar sauce from the store again after you taste this delicious, easy-to-make recipe!
Pasta Sauces
Basil Pesto with Pistachio Nuts
This basil pesto is a little different in that I used pistachio nuts. The flavor is bright and fresh for summer. Use it with pasta, roasted chicken or lamb, on sandwiches, fresh veggies, pizza, and especially on your fresh vine-ripened garden tomatoes.
This sauce is so delicious! There are so many uses for this sauce, such as with pasta, on vegetable, etc. Let your imagination be your guide with this sauce.
This is a very good basic Marinara Sauce. Using this easy-to-make recipe, you can easily make an Arrabbiata Sauce.
Longing for summer tomatoes? When good vine- ripened fresh tomatoes are out of season, use top-quality canned tomatoes and roast them in your oven. Amazing things happen to canned tomatoes when you roast them in the oven.
This is the perfect idea for those last of the season tomatoes. This is not really a recipe, but more of a technique that I use for making this wonderful Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce. This is a very simple technique that is subject to endless variation to your taste.
This is very addicting! Serve it as a topping for bread (crostini), tossed with pasta, on a baked potato, spooned over fresh sliced tomatoes, topping for a pizza – the possibilities are endless.
The Peanut Sauce is excellent tossed with only cooked pasta and sesame seeds. Also great on chicken.
Simple Basic Tomato Sauce (low fat, low calorie)
This basic tomato sauce can be used for spaghetti, ravioli, chicken Parmesan, or anything else that you want! It is very quick and very easy to make and tastes delicious! Anything from seasoning to spices can be added to flavor the sauce.
Sun-Dried Tomato, Basil, and Almond Nut Pesto
This is a very flavorful twist on pesto. Great to use on pizza, vegetable tarts, pasta, sandwiches, in omelets, or add to Italian-style soups.
Pesto Sauces
This delicious pesto will taste great with your pasta, on bread, pizza, toast, baked potatoes, etc.
Basil Pesto with Pistachio Nuts
This basil pesto is a little different in that I used pistachio nuts. The flavor is bright and fresh for summer. Use it with pasta, roasted chicken or lamb, on sandwiches, fresh veggies, pizza, and especially on your fresh vine-ripened garden tomatoes.
Sun-Dried Tomato, Basil, and Almond Nut Pesto
This is a very flavorful twist on pesto. Great to use on pizza, vegetable tarts, pasta, sandwiches, in omelets, or add to Italian-style soups.
Salad Dressings and Vinaigrettes
This is one of my favorite salad dressing! It is so easy to make and so good.
(low fat, low calorie & low carb) – The addition of pure maple syrup brings this vinaigrette to a new dimension.
(low fat, low calorie & low carb) -This is excellent served on fresh tomatoes from your garden.
This blue cheese dressing is so good! My husband loves it! Use it on your salads, as a dip, or on your steaks.
(low fat, low calorie)
My all-time favorite salad is the Caesar Salad. Following is my delicious low-fat version of this salad. I promise you that your guests will never know the difference! I make this low-fat version all of time. I have served it with Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.
A very refreshing salad dressing.This delicious Poppy Seed Salad Dressing recipe was shared with my by Karen Calanchini of Redding, CA.
The addition of either fresh or frozen raspberries, makes this dressing exceptional!
Dad’s Goop Salad Dressing (low fat)
My friend, Karen Calanchini of Redding, CA, adapted and shared this tasty salad dressing recipe. Karen says, “This is from a good friend of mine and she says it is close to 60 years old and that her dad used to make it. I’ve created this low-fat version that I use all the time. It is very good!”
This delicious salad dressing recipe was shared with me by Alleta Huston. Alleta says, “My friend gave me this recipe and it is wonderful with any type of herb vinegar. It’s sort of a French style dressing. I gave this dressing out with my herb vinegar this Christmas.”
The Green Goddess Dressing was created at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel (now called the Sheraton-Palace) in the 1920s.
The hazelnut oil really gives this vinaigrette a special taste! This recipe is a favorite of my husband.
My husband loves honey mustard dressing and this homemade version also delights him. So easy to make!
Recipe by chef Bruce Naftaly of Le Gourmand Restaurant in Seattle, WA.
This is one of my favorite salad dressing. I’m always making this vinaigrette. It is so easy to make and so good!
This vinaigrette is so refreshing and is so easy to make and so good. You will definitely enjoy this on your salads.?>
(low fat, low calorie & low carb) – Another great tasting slow fat, low calories, and low carbohydrate salad dressing – plus you have all the benefits of the pomegranate.
This is the best poppy seed dressing you have every tasted!
This delicious Poppy Seed Salad Dressing recipe was shared with my by Karen Calanchini of Redding, CA.
Sesame-Dijon Vinaigrette with Capers
Check out this very different, but delicious, version of Honey-Mustard Dressing.
I serve this wonderful Thousand Island Dressing with salads, spread on sandwiches (especially Reuben Sandwiches), and seafood. It is so easy to make and so good!
This salad dressing is a wonderful gastronomic experience. The truffle oil provides a new meaning to salads as there is something about the smell that makes you want to throw aside your fork and eat the salad with your fingers!
This is a wonderful salad dressing. It is one of my family’s favorite salad dressings and sure to become one of yours.
My husband loves honey mustard dressing and this homemade version also delights him. So easy to make!
Recipe by chef Bruce Naftaly of Le Gourmand Restaurant in Seattle, WA.
This is one of my favorite salad dressing. I’m always making this vinaigrette. It is so easy to make and so good!
This vinaigrette is so refreshing and is so easy to make and so good. You will definitely enjoy this on your salads.?>
(low fat, low calorie & low carb) – Another great tasting slow fat, low calories, and low carbohydrate salad dressing – plus you have all the benefits of the pomegranate.
This is the best poppy seed dressing you have every tasted!
Sesame-Dijon Vinaigrette with Capers
Check out this very different, but delicious, version of Honey-Mustard Dressing.
I serve this wonderful Thousand Island Dressing with salads, spread on sandwiches (especially Reuben Sandwiches), and seafood. It is so easy to make and so good!
This salad dressing is a wonderful gastronomic experience. The truffle oil provides a new meaning to salads as there is something about the smell that makes you want to throw aside your fork and eat the salad with your fingers!
This is a wonderful salad dressing. It is one of my family’s favorite salad dressings and sure to become one of yours.
Salsa and Guacamole
Fresh corn and avocado. Yum!
This is my daughter’s recipes. Salsa is a delicious uncooked chunky tomato sauce. You can develop a real passion for salsa, since it is low in calories and very flavorful.
Chunky Avocado Salad – Guacamole Salad
This version of guacamole is fantastic! I really like this chunky version over the mashed ones. It can be served as an appetizer or a salad with either corn or flour tortillas.
Cranberry Salsa with Cream Cheese
This fantastic recipe was shared with me by Carol Reich of Hillsboro, Oregon. Carol won a Dip Contest on the Satellite Sisters Radio Show with this outstanding and also beautiful-to-look-at recipe.
Salsa is a delicious uncooked chunky tomato sauce. You can develop a real passion for salsa, since it is low in calories and very flavorful. There are no hard-and-fast rules in making salsa. Add or delete ingredients according to your taste.
In the cuisine of the Southwest, guacamole is used as a cocktail dip, or one of the toppings and/or fillings of enchiladas, tacos, tostadas, or burritos.
Avocados are wonderful fruits, and very good for you, despite the high fat content. The fat stored in avocados is monounsaturated and can even help in the battle of the bulge. It helps to keep you feeling full and it can be a metabolism booster.
Check out this very unusual and delicious salsa!
A wonderful salsa recipe. Also excellent with seafood and fish.
Roasted Chile Pepper & Tomatillo Salsa
Fiery hot salsa – for those you like salsa hot! So good and so addicting!
This is an unusual approach that produces a great condiment. Roasting a lemon softens its acidity and adds a toasty note. It’s a great topper for broiled or grilled chicken and fish.
Salsa verde is to Mexican cuisine what tomato sauce is to Italian food. Its most popular use is as a chip dip, but also used as a sauce on meats.
This fruit salsa is a delicious summertime treat. You can develop a real passion for this salsa, since it is low in calories and very flavorful.
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