Tarragon Sauce

[Puzzled001]

Hi all, anyone know a recipe for making Tarragon Sauce, similar to mint sauce, any ideas appreciated

[nungate]

Don't know a recipe, but you could try looking for a Bearnaise sauce recipe - which is the same, alternatively take yourself down to you nearest Marks food hall and buy one at the meat shelves. M&S do a nice line in steak sauces and Bearnaise is one of them. Bearnaise does contain tarragon, cream and I can't remember the rest of the ingredients.

[Puzzled001]

thanks for that nungate, sounds rather nice, I think I'll try that,what I really want is to make a sauce using chopped Tarragon like you do to make mint sauce. By the way my nearest M&S isI think in Gibraltar as I live in Murcia, Spain.

[nungate]

See your problem. If you can hang on I have a recipe somewhere from Prue Leith for Italian chicken with tarragon - a great herb to use with chicken! Just have to find it! If you have a glut of tarragon why not pop some into some olive oil for a tarragon flavoured oil or maybe into some wine vinegar for a similar flavoured vinegar, it also freezes well. When I dig up that recipe I'll post it here for you

[Buenchico]

Only one review, but it's got 5 stars, so it could be worth a try:
http://allrecipes.co....0/tarragon-sauce.aspx

If you want a veggie version (i.e. without the chicken stock) this recipe uses vegetable stock:
http://www.parsleysou...recipe=tarragon_sauce

Chris

[Barmaid]

Tarragon is a lovely herb to use. You can spice it up with star anise.

I regularly cook stuff in wine with some tarragon to flavour the sauce, then take the meat out and then reduce the liquid. Once liquid has reduced I stir in cream (creme fraiche works particularly well) and some more tarragon.

I find tarragon flavours things better if it has some cooking time rather than just stirred in at the end.

[Buenchico]

You really know how to turn me on, Barmaid!
;-)

[nungate]

Puzzled001 I'm so sorry I can't find that chicken/tarragon recipe I promised you - I think my daughter borrowed it (though she denies it!) Have you made any progress on the whole tarragon sauce search?

[Puzzled001]

Hello,Chris,nungate and barmaid, thanks for your replies, looks like I'll be spending sometime in the kitchen sampling ideas, yummy!. If I finelly chop a big bunch of Tarragon and add some white wine vinegar and a bit of 'sweetning'(I keep sugar to a minimum as I am diabetic) and put it in a sterilised jar do you think it will keep like 'mint-sauce' or add gelatin to make tarragon jelly?