sauce essentials: kicked up gravy or sauce

How To Make sauce essentials: kicked up gravy or sauce

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  PREP/PREPARE
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  You will need a saucepan to make this recipe.
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  Prepared Horseradish versus Horseradish Sauce Prepared horseradish contains vinegar, and often salt or sugar. This helps prolong the life of the horseradish and keeps it manageable. Prepared horseradish is typically used as an ingredient in anything that calls for horseradish. It can also be used on its own as a condiment. On the other hand, horseradish “sauce” is prepared horseradish mixed with a number of other ingredients to create a creamy sauce that goes perfectly with steak and other meats. Some common ingredients found in horseradish sauce include egg yolks, sugar, corn syrup, mustard flour, cornstarch, salt, soybean oil, distilled vinegar, and lemon juice concentrate. Bottom Line If the recipe calls for prepared horseradish, DO NOT use horseradish sauce. Full Stop.
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  You might be thinking that adding horseradish to a gravy will make it hot and spicy, but nothing is further from the truth, allowing the horseradish to simmer in the gravy for a bit of time will mellow the heat and give that gravy some awesome multi-layered earthy notes.
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  Gather your ingredients (mise en place).
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  Take your gravy and bring it up to a light simmer, add the horseradish and stir for 5 – 8 minutes. Then, take off the heat and add the lemon juice.
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  Do a tasting for proper salt/pepper seasoning. Or, you might want to add a bit more horseradish or lemon.
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  PLATE/PREPARE
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  Serve with your favorite main dishes, or just pour some over a nice pile of warm mash taters. Enjoy.
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  Keep the faith and keep cooking.
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