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mushroom sauce

mushroom sauce

3 1.7
A sauce made with mushrooms to add flavor to foods like meat or pasta
  • noun
translation icon : salsa de champiñones
  • She served the grilled chicken alongside a rich mushroom sauce for added flavor.
  • steak with mushroom sauce
  • chicken in mushroom sauce
  • wild mushroom sauce

Examples

  • For lunch, you need new potatoes with dill, a mushroom sauce, butter in one piece, tomatoes, and cucumbers with sour cream and onions.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Marie-Louise bravely continued to lift covers, revealing hair cots, artichokes, and a grilled chicken in a mushroom sauce.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Cooked to perfection with the mushroom sauce and

  • Someone put mushrooms in my mushroom sauce.

    Zerophilia (2005)

  • Steak, mushroom sauce and potatoes and green beans.

  • So for example, in the beef I on top I've put in a layer of mushroom puree, actually a mushroom sauce like a mushroom soy sauce.

  • SPAGHETTI WITH MUSHROOM SAUCE.

    A Very Brady Sequel (1996)

  • I'M COOKING SOME SCALLOPS AND DUCK IN THIS WONDERFUL MUSHROOM SAUCE WITH CHAMPAGNE, IN CASE WE GOT HUNGRY AFTERWARDS.

    Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)

  • And I'm thankful for two-ration beef with mushroom sauce, and heat and dust and roadblocks and Haji Pepsi, and kids who run up and hug you, and kids who spit at you, and mothers having babies faster so they can grow up to kill you.

    Home of the Brave (2006)

  • Mix and match small and large plates (polenta with mushroom sauce, pickled vegetables, bi bim bop), but always order a slider.

    Blog text (24)

Synonyms

mushroom wine sauce
vsmushroom sauce
4.1

A brown sauce made from mushrooms and red wine served with meat

is a general accompaniment flavoured by fungi for meat pasta or vegetables

Surface Forms

mushroom sauce singular
mushroom sauces plural

Morphology

mushroom + sauce

The meaning 'a sauce made with or flavored by mushrooms' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'mushroom' and 'sauce' as a noun-noun culinary compound. This is a straightforward, non-metaphorical composition common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

The name mushroom sauce simply means a sauce made with mushroom as the main ingredient. Cooks long ago would add chopped mushrooms into a rich sauce to pour over meat, pasta or vegetables, so the name explains why it now means 'a sauce made with mushrooms'.