Basic Crab Pan Sauce
Editor's note: Use this pan sauce to flavor Chef John Besh's Busters and Grits.
The clams’ natural briny sweetness serves as a surprising foil for the tender fritter batter—just be sure to pull off the tough outer coating of the siphon.
Developed in the 1980s by a chef in Hong Kong, this sauce is all about umami.
Every sauce needs a few secrets. Ours is smoky, sweet, and savory—use it for burgers, fries, tenders, and more.
This sauce is slightly magical. The texture cloaks pasta much like a traditional meat sauce does, and the flavors are deep and rich, but it’s actually vegan!
A little shrimp paste goes a long, long, long way in this delicious vegetable dish.
Rather than breaded and fried as you might expect croquettes to be, these are something more akin to a seared chicken salad patty.
Salmoriglio is a Mediterranean sauce with herbs, garlic, and olive oil. In this version, kelp is used as the base of the sauce.
Kewpie Mayonnaise is the ultimate secret ingredient to creating a perfect oven-baked battered-and-fried crunch without a deep fryer.