bourguignon sauce

7.5

A sauce made with red wine, onions, herbs and butter, often served with beef

noun
/ˌbʊrɡɪˈnjɔ̃ sɔs/

: 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

1 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

15 1.7

bourguignon sauce

7.5

gravy

111 1.0

tomato sauce

25 1.0

vinaigrette

25 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.