Tarragon sauce

[starship255]

I recently had a fantastic tarragon sauce with a fillet steak in a restaurant and was wondering if anyone would have a similar recipe I could try?

[nickmo]

Try mixing white wine vinegar, fresh lemon juice, butter and tarragon in a pan, warm through and serve over meat.

You can stir in a mustard like dijon too, add garlic, add olive oil - no real hard and fast rules with this sort of thing. Make a cream sauce with a little oil, cream, tarrgon, pepper, garlic and white wine vinegar all blended.

Make a marinade as well - mix up olive oil, fresh tarragon, mustard powder, salt. pepper, lemon juice, white wine and garlic. Combine it all and pour over meat. Leave as long as possible to marinade.

[BBWCHATT]

Tarragon Sauce
Recipe courtesy Gourmet Magazine

4 large bunches fresh tarragon (about 1 ounce total)
2 large bunches fresh chives (about 2/3 ounces)
2 large shallots
1 1/2 cups fresh flat-leaf parsley
2 cups mayonnaise
2/3 cup rice vinegar (not seasoned)
4 teaspoons Dijon mustard
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

Pick enough tarragon leaves to measure 1 cup (do not pack). Chop enough chives to measure 2/3 cup. Coarsely chop shallot. In a food processor puree tarragon, chives, and shallot with remaining sauce ingredients until smooth and season with salt and pepper. (Sauce may be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring sauce to cool room temperature before serving.)

[Royal Pollen]

put some chopped shallots in a pan with some fresh tarragon and 75 ml white wine vinegar and peppercorns.

while thats reducing put a glass bowl over some water. in bottom place an egg yoke and dijon mustard. bit by bit add cubes of butter about the size of a die/dice and whisk. after its melted add another and so on. after 5 pieces of butter add the reduced vinegar, leaving behind the bits. squeeze the juice out the shallots though. keep adding butter and whisking until you have a hollandaisie sauce.

perfect for steak

[Royal Pollen]

thats 'put the glass bowl over some boiling water'