wine sauce
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salsa de vino
- I have prepared for you this evening my specialty: a pasta primavera in a white wine sauce.
- a red wine sauce
- a white wine sauce
- chicken in wine sauce
It has this white wine sauce and I make it with mashed potatoes and that is like my go to for a really satisfying meal.
- It has this white wine sauce and I make it with mashed potatoes and that is like my go to for a really satisfying meal.
Examples
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Making a lean wine sauce adds a nice touch over the top after slicing and serving.
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Guests can order oysters Rockefeller, mussels in wine sauce, clams baked in butter, battered calamari, and plenty of other seafood favorites.
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Oh, it had the most delicious wine sauce.
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- Lobster in white wine sauce.
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What was really not to my taste was the main course of pork fillet in a sweet wine sauce.
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I place the meat in the crockpot, and add the wine sauce to the meat, along with the onions and garlic.
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It's a glazed chicken in wine sauce... with vegetables and skin-on potatoes.
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It has this white wine sauce and I make it with mashed potatoes and that is like my go to for a really satisfying meal.
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Speaking of which, I'm thinking tonight's chicken and veggies roasted in a white wine sauce.
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The braised chicken was served with a rich wine sauce that enhanced its flavor.
Synonyms
A rich sauce made from red wine, onions, herbs, and butter to serve with meat
A sauce made with red wine, onions, herbs and butter, often served with beef
A brown sauce made with fried onions, parsley, and white wine, served with meat or vegetables
A brown sauce made from mushrooms and red wine served with meat
A rich brown sauce with mushrooms, onions, tomato, and white wine for meat
A brown French sauce with mushrooms, tomato and white wine served with meat
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sauce made with wine' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'wine' (an alcoholic beverage) and 'sauce' (a liquid condiment). Noun + noun culinary compounds are a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Wine sauce comes from a simple kitchen picture: cooks cook wine with broth, onions and herbs until the liquid becomes a rich sauce to pour over meat or fish. So the name literally means a 'sauce' made from wine, which is why today wine sauce refers to a savory sauce made with wine.