Nantua sauce (French: Sauce Nantua) is a classical French sauce consisting of:
- a Béchamel sauce base
- cream
- crayfish butter
- crayfish tails
The term à la Nantua may be used in classical French cuisine to refer to any dish containing crayfish.
Famous quotes containing the word sauce:
“She leet no morsel from hir lippes falle,
Ne wette hir fyngres in hir sauce depe.
Wel koude she carie a morsel and wel kepe
That no drope ne fille upon hire brest.
In curteisie was set ful muchel hir lest.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)