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hunter's sauce

hunter's sauce

7.4
A brown French sauce with mushrooms, tomato and white wine served with meat
  • noun
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  • Adding mushrooms and wine gives hunter's sauce its distinctive taste.

Examples

  • Many French recipes for game meats call for a traditional hunter's sauce.

  • The chicken was served with a rich hunter's sauce that complemented the flavors perfectly.

  • I love hunter's sauce with my steak.

  • Have you tried hunter's sauce on chicken?

  • The chef prepared a succulent steak topped with hunter's sauce, enhancing its rich flavor.

  • At the restaurant, I ordered the chicken served with hunter's sauce and a side of vegetables.

  • For dinner, he enjoyed lamb chops accompanied by a generous serving of hunter's sauce.

Synonyms

sauce chausseur
vshunter's sauce
9.5

A rich brown sauce with mushrooms, onions, tomato, and white wine for meat

is the same sauce but named in English rather than French

Surface Forms

hunter's sauce singular
hunter's sauces plural

Morphology

hunter's + sauce

The compound is compositionally built from 'hunter' + 'sauce', so a learner who knows both words can infer it is a type of sauce associated with hunters or game/meat. However, the specific culinary meaning (a French brown sauce with tomato purée, mushrooms and wine) is conventional and not predictable from the constituents alone, so the relation is only partly transparent.

Etymology

The name hunter's sauce may come from old French cooking for hunters who used mushrooms, onions and wine they found in the woods to make a brown sauce for their 'game'. That's why today it means a rich mushroom-and-wine sauce served with meats.