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shrimp sauce

shrimp sauce

2.8
A white creamy sauce that uses cream and butter made from shrimp, served with seafood
  • noun
  • /ʃrɪmp sɔs/
translation icon : salsa de camarones
  • I love shrimp sauce with my pasta.
  • creamy shrimp sauce

Examples

  • She could taste the rich whipping cream and shrimp butter in the shrimp sauce.

  • The chef poured a generous amount of shrimp sauce over the poached fish.

  • This recipe calls for homemade shrimp sauce to enhance the flavor of seafood pasta.

  • The chef prepared a delicious shrimp sauce for the seafood platter.

  • The chef drizzled the shrimp sauce over the grilled fish to enhance its flavor.

  • A delicious pasta dish is served with a creamy shrimp sauce that adds richness.

  • You can make a tasty seafood salad by tossing fresh shrimp with the shrimp sauce.

Synonyms

cream sauce
vsshrimp sauce
6 1.7

A white sauce made from cream used to add flavor to dishes like pasta or chicken

is specifically richer, made with seafood butter and for seafood dishes
white sauce
vsshrimp sauce
2 1.7

A sauce made from milk thickened with butter and flour

is richer and made with cream and seafood butter for seafood serving
Nantua
vsshrimp sauce
9.9

A white sauce made from cream and shrimp butter that chefs serve with fish

is used as a seafood accompaniment rather than a national cuisine specialty

Surface Forms

shrimp sauce singular
shrimp sauces plural

Morphology

shrimp + sauce

This is a straightforward noun-noun compound whose meaning is directly derivable from 'shrimp' (a small marine crustacean) + 'sauce' (a condiment): a sauce made from or for shrimp. Such culinary compounds are common cross-linguistically, so an average B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Shrimp sauce comes from the simple cooking idea of putting the flavor of shrimp into a creamy sauce. Chefs mixed whipping cream and shrimp-flavored butter to pour over fish, so the name now means 'a white sauce made with whipping cream and shrimp butter'.