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cream sauce

cream sauce

6 1.7
A white sauce made from cream used to add flavor to dishes like pasta or chicken
  • noun
  • /krim sɔs/
translation icon : 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

cheese sauce
vscream sauce
3 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
white sauce
vscream sauce
2 1.7

A sauce made from milk thickened with butter and flour

is cream based and richer than this milk thickened version
béchamel sauce
vscream sauce
1 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
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
shrimp sauce
vscream sauce
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
Newburg
vscream sauce
  • US
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

How Thick

cream sauce
6 1.7
tomato sauce
20 1.0
broth
76 1.0
vinaigrette
28 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'.