Enter a culinary school today, and you'll hear all about the five mother sauces. But who first classified this group and what ...

What is a veloute sauce? I have always thought it was a difficult and complex thing to make but I would like to have a go anyway.

But there's another sauce that's always part of the core group, and it's one that might seem a little more obscure: velouté.

Another classic ‘Mother’ sauce from French cooking - with vegetable stock from scratch, we learn all about 'Velouté'. Grab the recipes at http://www.DinnerDeeAs ...

A velouti sauce isn't complex at all. It is simply a white sauce - a bechamel - made with veal, fish, vegetable or chicken stock instead of milk. It is usually finished with a little butter beaten ...