Sauces recipes

Green salad with a bright, oil-free orange juice dressing, blended with lemon, mint, and fennel seed. Tossed with feta, black beans, and crunchy almonds for a light, fat-free citrus salad.

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Lemon tea snow with strawberry sauce: a light, airy gelatin dessert flavored with lemon and instant tea, beaten with egg whites into a cloud. Served with a warm-set strawberry-currant sauce. Retro Southern tearoom fare.

Whole steamed crab in shell with a Cantonese-style curry sauce of garlic, ginger, sherry, and sweet bell pepper. Restaurant-style banquet dish with theatrical presentation.

Salmon steaks poached with white wine, bay leaf, and fresh dill, served with a creamy cucumber dill sauce made from yogurt, mayo, and grated cucumber.

Griddle cheesecakes made with pureed cottage cheese, cooked like pancakes and served with a fresh cranberry-orange sauce. A light, tangy twist on traditional cheesecake.

Salmon-rice pie made with canned salmon, eggs, celery, and lemon juice baked in a deep dish and served with a creamy pimiento olive sauce with mustard.

Pickled pineapple meringue freezes a meringue with pink-peppercorn-pickled pineapple, almonds, and cream, then plates with raspberry sauce and dramatic chocolate spires. Restaurant-style frozen dessert.

Handmade ravioli stuffed with shrimp, halibut, and clams on a slow-simmered Spanish tomato sauce infused with saffron, orange zest, and shrimp shell stock. A true showstopper.

Beef scallops with fresh tomato sauce: top round steak pounded paper-thin, pan-seared, then napped with a quick sauce of fresh tomatoes, green onions, and basil. The Italian veal-scaloppini technique applied to budget beef.

Walnut-crusted chicken breasts pan-fried golden and topped with a tangy raspberry-lime sauce made with sherry, seedless jam, and coriander. Elegant yet simple.

Chocolate fudge pudding cake that bakes its own sauce. Hot milk poured over cocoa batter creates a gooey chocolate sauce underneath a tender cake layer with almonds.

This pasta sauce is basically a variation on the Indian raita, a cooling, soothing combination of cucumber, cilantro and yogurt.

Flambe bananas in brown sugar butter sauce with raisins, walnuts, and brandy. A 15-minute showstopper dessert with caramelized fruit and a dramatic flame finish.

Grilled salmon steaks with spicy pineapple sauce is as delightful to look at as it is to eat. What's more, the sauce goes equally well over lots of other fish and meat dishes.

Bananas in rum caramel sauce with pineapple juice, cinnamon, and butter, served over vanilla ice cream. A quick stovetop dessert ready in 30 minutes.