Butter: Polonaise or Browned Butter Crumb Sauce

atti posted 01-22-99

Polonaise or Browned Butter Crumb Sauce
(Serves 4)

A topping for vegetables

Brown: 1/3 c. fine dry bread crumbs in Meuniere butter (recipe below)

(If you wish, you may saute 1 Tbsp. minced onion in the butter until transparant, before adding the bread crumbs.) Garnish the vegetable with finely chopped hard-cooked egg and pour sauce over it.


Meuniere (Lemon Butter)

1/4 c. clarified butter
1 tsp. vinegar or lemon juice


Melt butter and cook very slowly, until dark brown. Stir in 1 tsp. vinegar or lemon juice at once. You may add 1 Tbsp. chopped capers if served with fish. Serve immediately.

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