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bourguignon sauce

bourguignon sauce

7.5
A sauce made with red wine, onions, herbs and butter, often served with beef
  • noun
  • /ˌbʊrɡɪˈnjɔ̃ sɔs/
translation icon : salsa bourguignon
  • The beef was simmered in a rich bourguignon sauce that was bursting with flavor.

Examples

  • Pour the bourguignon sauce over the mushrooms and garnish with fresh thyme.

  • She learned to make bourguignon sauce in her French cooking class last semester.

  • The chef prepared a rich bourguignon sauce for the beef.

  • Have you ever tasted bourguignon sauce with mushrooms?

  • The beef was simmered in a rich bourguignon sauce that was bursting with flavor.

  • Pour the bourguignon sauce over the mushrooms and garnish with fresh thyme.

  • She learned to make bourguignon sauce in her French cooking class last semester.

Synonyms

Burgundy sauce
vsbourguignon sauce
4.9

A rich sauce made from red wine, onions, herbs, and butter to serve with meat

is used generally in French cooking rather than named for that wine

How Rich

cream sauce
6 1.7
bourguignon sauce
7.5
gravy
95 1.0
tomato sauce
20 1.0
vinaigrette
28 3.3

Surface Forms

bourguignon sauce singular
bourguignon sauces plural

Morphology

bourguignon + sauce

The meaning 'a sauce made in the Burgundian/red-wine style' is directly compositional from 'bourguignon' (a Burgundy cooking style using red wine) + 'sauce' (a condiment). This follows standard culinary naming patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reasonably infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Bourguignon sauce comes from Burgundy, a region in France. The word Bourguignon means 'from Burgundy', a place known for red wine, so the name bourguignon sauce shows it is a rich sauce made with red wine, onions, and herbs.