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:
“To feed were best at home;
From thence, the sauce to meat is ceremony;
Meeting were bare without it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)