Rainbow sauce refers to several types of
culinary
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sauce
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s. The term also refers to a food presentation or preparation style in which several sauces are placed on a food dish or plate alongside one-another, and also a sauce preparation method in which several sauces are mixed together.
Rainbow sauces
Rainbow sauce is a
dessert sauce
A dessert sauce is a sauce used for desserts. It is drizzled or poured atop various desserts, and is also used for plate decoration. Dessert sauce adds flavor, moisture, texture and color to desserts, may be cooked or uncooked, and is sometimes p ...
prepared with pineapple, candied cherries, apricot, citron, pears, and pistachio nuts.
The ingredients are chopped, combined and boiled in
simple syrup
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to create a sauce.
This sauce is typically served atop ice cream.
The term also refers to
sweet and sour sauce
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that may utilize many types of ingredients that are combined and heated to create a sauce.
Myriad ingredients in its preparation can include green pepper, canned
fruit cocktail
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, corn starch, vinegar, pineapple, pickled and sweet ginger, pickled cucumber, carrot, maraschino cherries, sugar, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, lemon juice, cranberry juice, vinegar,
and others. This type of sauce may be served on chicken dishes,
among others.
Another version is a savory sauce prepared with ingredients such as cream, white wine, shallots and oranges.
This sauce may be served with fillets of rainbow trout,
among other foods.
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List of dessert sauces
This is a list of dessert sauces. A dessert sauce is a sauce that serves to add flavor, moisture, texture and color to desserts. Dessert sauces may be cooked or uncooked.
Dessert sauces
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List of sauces
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Sauces
Dessert sauces