Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
To prepare the classic version of the sauce, you will need: sour cream, salt, ground hot pepper, lemon juice, garlic and, in fact, cheese with noble blue mold of your favorite variety (I prefer roquefort, gorgonzola or dorbla). If desired, you can supplement the sauce with mayonnaise and Worcestershire sauce. But we will prepare the classic version, without them.
Step 2:
So, put the sour cream in a suitable-sized bowl. It can be absolutely any fat content, it's a matter of taste. I always use ten percent. But with a fatter sour cream, of course, the sauce will be richer. Grate the cheese on a medium or fine grater. So it will be evenly distributed in the finished sauce.
Step 3:
Peel the garlic clove and grate it on a fine grater. It will add flavor and even more piquancy to the sauce.
Step 4:
Squeeze lemon juice into a bowl. Be careful that the lemon seeds do not fall into the bowl. After all, no one will want to unexpectedly find them in the sauce. It is better to squeeze the juice through a fine strainer.
Step 5:
The final touch is salt and hot ground pepper, if you need it. It is necessary to salt and pepper the sauce carefully, since the cheese with blue mold itself is very salty and spicy. There is a risk of over-salting the sauce.
Step 6:
Stir the sauce until all the ingredients are combined, and you can serve!
The thickness of the sauce will depend on the fat content of the sour cream. The fatter the sour cream, the thicker the sauce will turn out.
The intricacies of the emerald mold permeating the cheese can be admired endlessly. This is a real edible treasure!
But I must warn you that cheese with blue mold is a very, very specific taste (and smell) product! Its sharp and confident taste is not suitable for everyone. Therefore, I recommend cooking the sauce only to true connoisseurs of such cheeses, so as not to spoil the products and their own mood.
Blue cheese can be served as an independent sauce for snacks, and used as an ingredient for other dishes. For example, when baking in the oven, it gives an appetizing ruddy color.
This time I baked salmon with Blue Cheese sauce on a pillow of rice and spinach. After diluting the thick sauce with low-fat cream.
It turned out to be a hearty and delicious dish!
Bon appetit!
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Sour cream of 30% fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115 kcal/100g
- Sour cream - 210 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Lemon juice - 16 kcal/100g
- Ground hot pepper - 21 kcal/100g
- Cheese with mold - 353 kcal/100g
- Hermelin - 303 kcal/100g
- Gorgonzola - 330 kcal/100g
