How to Make the 5 French Mother Sauces

Published 2024-06-02
In this video, I will walk you through how to make each of thee Five French Mother Sauces or Grand Sauces used in Classical French Cuisine. These sauces are very important to aspiring chefs, as it is one of the first topics discussed when attending Culinary School. The techniques used when making these sauces translate to every other type of cuisine and all other types of sauces. I go through the classical preparations, modern style sauces and practical uses for the home cook when making these sauces. The 5 Sauces are Bechamel, Veloute, Hollandaise, Tomato, and Sauce Espagnole.

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Bechamel Sauce Ingredients:
1/2 oz Butter
1/2 oz Flour
8 oz Milk
Small Piece of Onion
1 Bay Leaf
1 Clove
Dash of Nutmeg
Salt to Taste

Veloute Sauce Ingredients:
1/2 oz Butter
1/2 oz Flour
8 oz White Stock
2 oz Mirepoix (2 Parts Onion, 1 Part Carrot, 1 Part Celery)
2-3 Thyme Sprigs
2-3 Parsley Stems
1 Bay Leaf
Salt to Taste

Hollandaise Sauce Ingredients:
1 oz White Wine
1 oz White Wine Vinegar
3-4 Cracked Peppercorns
1 Diced Shallot
1 oz Water
2 Egg Yolks
4-6 oz Butter or Clarified Butter heated to 145 F

Tomato Sauce Ingredients:
2-3 oz Medium Diced Onions
2-3 Minced Garlic Cloves
1 Tablespoon Tomato Paste
1 Can Tomato Puree or Diced Tomatoes
Salt to Taste

Espagnole Sauce Ingredients:
1/2 oz Butter
2 oz Mirepoix(2 Parts Onion, 1 Part Celery, 1 Part Carrot)
1 Tablespoon Tomato Paste
8 oz Brown Stock
1-2 oz Brown Roux
2-3 Thyme Sprigs
2-3 Parsley Stems
1 Bay Leaf
Salt to Taste

Music in the Video from Youtube Studio Audio LIbrary:
Artist: Track Tribe
Title: Lawrence

All Comments (21)
  • @ClarionMumbler
    For me, this might be the most helpful video you've made so far. I've always avoided french cuisine/mother sauces, etc, because it has always come off as stuffy, overly complicated and inaccessible. The is the most newbie-friendly and accessible take on the subject i think i've seen on YT so far. So good job and thanks!
  • @leobueno5546
    Excellent. P.S.: Please get rid of the annoying background noise pretending to be music. Makes it harder to follow the video.
  • @LisaNix2
    Glad I just found your channel— looking forward to watching more videos.
  • SUCH a helpful video!! I love the way you explain things in a very approachable way. Thank you so much for posting this!
  • Great info! Definitely bookmarking this video. For some reason, he reminds me of what Bob Backlund would look like if he was a chef.
  • @shreder89
    Superb content mate! just one small bit of criticism: on the bits that you are explaining in front of the whiteboard, your voice came completely panned out to the left channel, but when you went into the cooking footage that problem dissapeared, you might want to look into that bc it can be a bit distracting. Other than that, excellent content, keep it up!
  • @ItsMe-yn6ql
    This was excellent! Thanks so much, just subbed
  • @AhmedEtman79
    Instant subscription. Love this video, very informative, well structured, cutting straight to the point, no BS. I would second the comment requesting to reduce the volume of the background music.
  • Excellent video, chef. I want to make the original tomato sauce just to see how it compares.
  • @Jacksirrom
    the $0.90 big can of tomato paste at walmart is the superior form of tomato paste
  • You mentioned that both Bechamel and Tomato sauce are the easiest sauces to make. Which one would you say is easier?
  • @1TieDye1
    What would you call the light brown roux you made?
  • @pigeonhed2979
    I liked the video, but please fix the audio so it's 2-channel/stereo when you're in "lecture" mode. I'm going to go check out your other videos...
  • @Prash1c
    For the first 6 minutes, audio only comes through one side of a stereo set up (headset and speakers) first then splits speech one eat and background music the other ear. Switches throughout the video. Good content, annoying audio issue.
  • @evk9563
    good video but all of your audio when you're micd up is panned wierdly