Bourbon Blue Cheese Sauce

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The bourbon will cook of most of the alcohol in the cooking process, but you can always skip it altogether.

Ready in 10 minutes, this versatile sauce is perfect for steak, chicken, vegetables, and more! Vegetarian. Bourbon adds depth of flavor but can be easily omitted. A great recipe to enhance your dish while fast and easy to make! Bourbon Blue Cheese Sauce | Three Olives Branch | www.threeolivesbranch.comSauces have a magical way of elevating dishes, such as this Bourbon Blue Cheese Sauce!

Ready in 10 minutes, this versatile sauce is perfect for steak, chicken, vegetables, and more! Vegetarian. Bourbon adds depth of flavor but can be easily omitted. A great recipe to enhance your dish while fast and easy to make! Bourbon Blue Cheese Sauce | Three Olives Branch | www.threeolivesbranch.comThis sauce is fantastic because it is so versatile!  It started off as a steak sauce for us, but I quickly learned it tastes great on just about anything.  This Bourbon Blue Cheese Sauce is the base of my Bacon and Bourbon Blue Cheese Potato Skins.  You can also try it on chicken, veggies, fries, and more!

Ready in 10 minutes, this versatile sauce is perfect for steak, chicken, vegetables, and more! Vegetarian. Bourbon adds depth of flavor but can be easily omitted. A great recipe to enhance your dish while fast and easy to make! Bourbon Blue Cheese Sauce | Three Olives Branch | www.threeolivesbranch.com
Bacon and Bourbon Blue Cheese Potato Skins

During the cooking process, the alcohol in the bourbon will almost completely burn off, leaving you with the flavor.  But if you want to skip the bourbon altogether, it still tastes great!  I love a strong bourbon flavor in this, so I sometimes add a shot of bourbon to the sauce at the end.  Keep in mind when you do this that the alcohol is not burning off!

Ready in 10 minutes, this versatile sauce is perfect for steak, chicken, vegetables, and more! Vegetarian. Bourbon adds depth of flavor but can be easily omitted. A great recipe to enhance your dish while fast and easy to make! Bourbon Blue Cheese Sauce | Three Olives Branch | www.threeolivesbranch.comThe blue cheese and the bourbon are both strong flavors in the Bourbon Blue Cheese Sauce.  Find your preference of balance by adding more or less of each and taste as you go.  The cheese is salty, so wait to add salt until the blue cheese is in the sauce.  And of course, however you are using the sauce, adding some additional blue cheese crumbles on top is a great way to finish it off!

Ready in 10 minutes, this versatile sauce is perfect for steak, chicken, vegetables, and more! Vegetarian. Bourbon adds depth of flavor but can be easily omitted. A great recipe to enhance your dish while fast and easy to make! Bourbon Blue Cheese Sauce | Three Olives Branch | www.threeolivesbranch.com

Bourbon Blue Cheese Sauce

The bourbon will cook of most of the alcohol in the cooking process, but you can always skip it altogether.
3.67 from 9 votes
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Course: Condiment
Cuisine: International
Keyword: 30 Min or Less, Vegetarian
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Servings: 1 cups
Calories: 1572kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 Tablespoon unsalted butter
  • 1/4 cup red onion finely diced
  • 1/2 cup bourbon
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 3/4 cup blue cheese crumbles
  • salt
  • black pepper

Instructions

  • Heat a large skillet or medium saucepan over medium heat.
  • Add the butter.
  • Once butter is melted, add the red onion. Cook until translucent, approximately 3-4 minutes.
  • Add the bourbon and reduce by about half at a simmer, approximately 3 minutes.
  • Stir in the heavy cream and blue cheese crumbles. Cook until the sauce starts to thicken, approximately 3-5 minutes. Make the sauce as thick (by cooking the sauce down) or as thin (by adding cream) as you like. It will continue to thicken a little as it sits and cools.
  • Add additional blue cheese or bourbon as desired. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Notes

If you add bourbon at any point, you can continue to cook the sauce to cook off the alcohol in the bourbon.
This sauce is great on steaks, chicken, veggies, and more!  Try it out on our Bacon and Bourbon Blue Cheese Potato Skins

Nutrition

Serving: 1batch | Calories: 1572kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 27g | Fat: 129g | Saturated Fat: 81g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 36g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 432mg | Sodium: 1507mg | Potassium: 502mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 4622IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 702mg | Iron: 1mg
By on January 16th, 2017

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3 thoughts on “Bourbon Blue Cheese Sauce”

  1. Have you tried freezing the sauce? I doubled it and have lots left over. Not sure if the heavy cream and bourbon would freeze well though…

    BTW – it was delicious with the potato skins!

    Reply
    • Thanks, Ali! I am glad you liked the sauce, and those potato skins are one of my favorite!

      I have not tried freezing it, although I know you can freeze dairy in general. It might separate a little when thawed. You could try whisking it back together and see if it sticks. If you try it out, let me know how it goes!

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