Pan Sauce for Chicken, Pork, or Steak
This simple pan sauce recipe is perfect for chicken, pork chops, or steak, and it can be made in about five minutes with a handful of ingredients.
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- Serves: 2 persons
Ingredients
- Reserved meat juices from cooking
- 1tablespoons shallots (finely chopped)
- ½cup white wine
- 2teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 2teaspoons parsley (fresh, chopped)
- 3tablespoons butter
- Kosher salt (to taste)
- Black pepper (freshly ground, to taste)
Instructions
Step 1
Gather the ingredients.Step 2
Remove the chicken, pork chops, or steak from the pan and let them rest on a plate or platter covered with foil in a warm spot. Pour off most of the fat from the pan, careful to leave the meat juices. You want a little bit of fat left in the pan.Step 3
Add the chopped shallots to the pan and sauté over medium-high heat until they turn slightly translucent.Step 4
Add the wine and scrape all the little toasty bits away from the bottom of the pan with your wooden spoon.Step 5
Cook for about three minutes or until the wine has reduced by about half.Step 6
Remove from the heat and stir in the mustard and chopped parsley.Step 7
Whisk in the butter one tablespoon at a time. Season to taste with salt and pepper.Step 8
Return the meat to the pan to warm through in the sauce before serving.