marsala sauce

Fortified wine gravy

Marsala sauce is a savory Italian-American preparation made with Marsala wine, a fortified wine from Sicily.

The sauce typically combines the wine with mushrooms, shallots, and butter or cream, reduced to concentrate flavor.

It appears most often over chicken or veal: chicken marsala, veal marsala.

The wine's sweetness balances the rich, earthy mushrooms.

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cream · garlic · Italian · shallots · prosciutto · skillet · savory · Sicily · fortified · reduction · veal · sautéed · golden brown · rich · amber · golden · herbs · thyme

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Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G