How to Use brown sauce in a Sentence

brown sauce

noun
  • Will the two brown sauces share a shelf at the Mustard Museum?
    Brenda Cain, cleveland.com, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The brown sauce caking the meat was flavorful but not enough so to disguise the dry and chewy pork.
    Lindsey McClave, The Courier-Journal, 7 Feb. 2018
  • My dining companion loves her stroganoff, the brown sauce tart and creamy, the spaetzle just right.
    Diana Spechler, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Homestyle means pork adobo ($10.50 for a plate dinner), fatty chunks of pork stewed in brown sauce like a Sunday roast over white rice.
    Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 9 Apr. 2020
  • This is a dark brown sauce that looks like soy sauce, but is made from the sap of a coconut plant (not the actual coconut) without any soy or wheat.
    Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The messmen had already laid out the midrats in two stainless-steel vats, one filled with a dark-colored meat in a brown sauce and the other filled with a light-colored meat in a white sauce.
    Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Unlike the thin brown sauce produced by mushrooms, anchovies and walnuts, tomato ketchup didn’t keep as well.
    Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 5 June 2017
  • This thick, dark brown sauce is a staple in Chinese family-style cooking.
    NBC News, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Wafts of garlic as the pan heated over the burner, tournedos and brown sauce added, a moment of simmering, a dramatic glug of brandy; whoosh!
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2019
  • The takoyaki starter is rich and creamy, topped with a sweet brown sauce, Japanese mayo and fishy bonito flakes, which are smoked, dried and fermented flakes of tuna.
    Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The dish also includes a duck glaze, or gravy, made with either chicken or veal demi-glace (a rich brown sauce) or low-sodium chicken stock.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Queen Elizabeth has released her own brand of condiments, including tomato ketchup and brown sauce (which is like a steak sauce).
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 28 Jan. 2022
  • There was also steak, a sirloin served sliced with a rich brown sauce as only restaurants can make, and some of those delicious meltingly creamy small potatoes.
    Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • As part of this course, each diner also was brought a small saucer in the center of which was a round disk covered in a deep brown sauce, a preparation our waiter said dated from the 1700s and described as a takeoff on wild hare a la Royale.
    Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Oyster Sauce Made from oyster extracts, this savory, thick, salty, dark brown sauce is considered a staple in Chinese family-style cooking.
    Katie Workman, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Do however avoid the Indian menu where an unidentifiable brown sauce pervades.
    Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Contrary to popular opinion, Cincinnati’s dining scene is not strictly composed of spaghetti drowned in a soupy brown sauce the locals insist is chili, topped overzealously with a heap of shredded cheddar cheese.
    Sean M. Peters, chicagotribune.com, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Swedish meatballs are traditionally eaten with creamy brown sauce, mashed or boiled potatoes and lingonberry jam, a sweet condiment particularly popular in northern Europe and made from berries related to cranberries and blueberries.
    Judith Vonberg, CNN, 3 May 2018

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