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sauce chausseur

sauce chausseur

9.5
A rich brown sauce with mushrooms, onions, tomato, and white wine for meat
  • noun
  • /sɔs ʃoˈsœr/
translation icon : salsa chausseur
  • After sautéing the mushrooms and onions, he finished the sauce chausseur with a splash of white wine.

Examples

  • Many French recipes for game meats call for a generous helping of sauce chausseur.

  • The chef prepared a delicious sauce chausseur to accompany the roasted chicken.

  • The chef prepared a delicious sauce chausseur for the steak.

  • I love sauce chausseur with my grilled chicken.

  • After sautéing the mushrooms and onions, he finished the sauce chausseur with a splash of white wine.

  • The chef prepared a delicious sauce chausseur to accompany the roasted chicken.

  • Many French recipes for game meats call for a generous helping of sauce chausseur.

Synonyms

hunter's sauce
vssauce chausseur
7.4

A brown French sauce with mushrooms, tomato and white wine served with meat

is the same sauce but known by a different traditional name

Surface Forms

sauce chausseur singular
sauces chausseur plural

Morphology

sauce + chausseur

The element 'sauce' clearly signals a type of condiment, and if a learner knew that 'chausseur' relates to French chasseur ('hunter') they could infer it is a 'hunter's' style sauce. However, the specific ingredients and rich brown composition (tomato purée, mushrooms, white wine) are culinary details that are not predictable from the constituents alone and rely on cultural/culinary knowledge, so the relation is partial rather than fully transparent.

Etymology

Sauce chausseur comes from French and literally means 'hunter's sauce', with chausseur meaning 'hunter'. One popular story says hunters in the woods fried mushrooms and onions with wine and tomato to make a quick brown sauce for wild meat, so today sauce chausseur is the rich brown sauce often served with meat.