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cream sauce

cream sauce

15 1.7
A white sauce made from cream used to add flavor to dishes like pasta or chicken
  • noun
  • /krim sɔs/
: salsa de crema
  • Rose, violet, or nasturtium petals in a variety of colors in tagliatelle served with a delicate shrimp and cream sauce.
  • mushroom cream sauce
  • tomato cream sauce
  • sour cream sauce

I'd caught steak chips and lamb chops and like no cream sauce with garlic and onions and mushrooms.

Examples

  • That is tender young veal served with fresh mushrooms, sherry and a cream sauce.

    King of the Gypsies (1978)

  • Left Bank, located right next to the Dishwalk check-in station, offered house-made mushroom ravioli in a cream sauce.

    Blog text (3)

  • I just make a cream sauce.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • It's topped with a rich cream sauce and baked.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • While the cream sauce is warming, prepare the potatoes.

    Blog text (26)

  • My mother would prepare kohlrabi in a white cream sauce.

    Blog text (22)

  • We've got it in cream sauce and in wine sauce.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • She also prepared the same cream sauce for cauliflower.

    Blog text (22)

  • I top it with a good cream sauce, and I agree the nutmeg grated over the top makes it scrumptious.

    Blog text (22)

  • The chef prepared a delicious seafood dish topped with a rich cream sauce.

Synonyms

white sauce
vscream sauce
6 1.7

A sauce made from milk thickened with butter and flour

is cream based and richer than this milk thickened version
cheese sauce
vscream sauce
5 1.0

A creamy sauce made from melted cheese to pour over foods like pasta or vegetables

is cream centered, not focused on cheese as the main ingredient
shrimp sauce
vscream sauce
2 2.8

A white creamy sauce that uses cream and butter made from shrimp, served with seafood

is based mainly on cream rather than milk or roux
bechamel
vscream sauce
  • Specialized
1 7.3

A smooth white sauce made from milk thickened with butter and flour

is based on cream rather than being milk thickened with roux
Newburg
vscream sauce
  • US
1 8.6

A rich cream sauce often flavored with sherry served with seafood or chicken

is a cream based sauce rather than a milk thickened sauce
white onion sauce
vscream sauce
3.0

A creamy sauce of cooked onions mixed with a smooth white sauce and cream

is mainly cream based rather than purely milk thickened
sauce Albert
vscream sauce
7.4

A creamy white mixture with horseradish and mustard served with meat

is cream based and used with meats rather than milk based sauces
béchamel sauce
vscream sauce
4.2

A white sauce you make by cooking milk with butter and flour until thick

is based on cream rather than being milk thickened with roux

How Thick

cream sauce
15 1.7
tomato sauce
25 1.0
broth
66 1.0
vinaigrette
25 3.3

Surface Forms

cream sauce singular
cream sauces plural

Morphology

cream + sauce

The meaning 'a white sauce made primarily with cream' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'cream' (a fatty dairy product) with 'sauce' (a liquid or semi-liquid condiment). This compositional culinary pattern is common across languages and follows normal noun + noun compound formation, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

Cream sauce is a name that comes from the simple cooking image of mixing cream with other ingredients to make a smooth sauce. That's why it means 'a sauce made with cream'.