Sauce vierge (French enunciation: [sos vjÉ›ÊÂÂÂÂÊ’ É› Ê Ê’]; in English: actually, "virgin sauce") is a French sauce made from olive oil, lemon juice, chopped tomato and sliced basil. Regularly smashed coriander seed is included and variations might consist of the enhancement of other natural herbs such as chervil, chives and parsley. The ingredients are incorporated and allowed to infuse or macerate (relying on whether warmth is used or not) in the oil to produce the sauce. The sauce is usually served with shellfish and gently flavoured white-fleshed fish such as cod and sole. It is often served over pasta. The sauce was popularised in the 1980s by Michel Guérard, a French cook, author, among the founders of nouvelle cuisine and the innovator of cuisine minceur, from Eugénie-les-Bains, Aquitaine, in south-western France, and has because ended up being a modern-day standard. In its initial kind the sauce was intended as a Mediterranean preparation and included a great deal of garlic. It was offered either hot or cold after the herbs had been infused in the oil.
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