demi-glace
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Burgundy wine, beef demi-glace, sage and thyme complement the sweetness of the onions in this rich gravy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
Your final result should have a rich mouthfeel, deeper flavor, should make a super-rich demi-glace once reduced and not just aimlessly cook off into nothingness.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2024
He followed it with a chicken “thigh” dish — darker meat served on a bed of potato puree with a mushroom-vegetable demi-glace, golden beets and tiny purple cauliflower florets.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
I’d only ever had it at restaurants, where the descriptions sounded intimidating, calling for veal demi-glace and flambéing tableside.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022
On the plate, shape the omelette into something like an oval, then drizzle with the demi-glace sauce.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2019
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