Rich brown sauce
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SmartPoints® value per serving
Total Time
51 min
Prep
12 min
Cook
39 min
Serves
6
Difficulty
Easy
This classic sauce, which features onions, carrots, celery, shallots, garlic, tomato paste, fresh parsley, and dried thyme, is ideal to serve with roast beef, beef tenderloin, or steak. To make this a demi-glace—a thick, intense base for other sauces—omit the salt and pepper and reduce the sauce to a syrupy consistency, which should take a few minutes longer. The recipe can also easily be doubled or tripled so you can have some on hand for last-minute meals. Cool the sauce and divide it among plastic containers, then refrigerate for up to 3 days or freeze for up to 3 months.
Ingredients
Olive oil
2 tsp
Uncooked onion(s)
1 medium, finely chopped
Uncooked carrot(s)
1 small, chopped
Uncooked celery
½ rib(s), medium, chopped
Uncooked shallot(s)
1 medium, finely chopped
Garlic clove(s)
1 medium clove(s), minced
Canned beef broth
3 cup(s), reduced-sodium
Canned tomato paste
1 Tbsp
Fresh parsley
3 Tbsp, fresh sprigs
Dried thyme
½ tsp, or 1 fresh sprig
Table salt
¼ tsp
Black pepper
⅛ tsp