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Brown roux
brown-roux · roux · French
About
Fat and flour cooked past blond into a nutty brown stage for brown sauces. Color and aroma, not just thickness, are the teaching point.
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Part of the same classical roux color ladder as blond and white roux. Historical specifics remain unverified.
Sources
- Classical French sauce teaching (general)
Skill ladder
- L1 Brown roux · this page
- L2 Classic brown roux
- L3 Advanced brown roux
Uses
- Blond roux 100 g
Preparations used
- No preparation inputs on this node.
Used in
Similar in this layer
- Advanced brown roux 0.94
- Classic brown roux 0.94
- Blond roux 0.47
- Strained béchamel 0.45
- Classic French béchamel 0.45
- Expert infused béchamel 0.43
- Clarified blond roux 0.42
- Cooked blond roux 0.42
Full raw-ingredient roll-up
Secondary view: every leaf ingredient with its path.
- 50.0 g Unsalted butterpath brown-roux → blond-roux → raw-roux → unsalted-butter
- 50.0 g All-purpose wheat flourpath brown-roux → blond-roux → raw-roux → wheat-flour