Horseradish-Chive Cream Sauce

Name: Horseradish-Chive Cream Sauce
Yield: Serves 4 (Makes enough sauce for 4 steaks)
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon, unsalted butter, chilled; 1 , shallot, minced; 1/2 cup, red wine; 1 teaspoon, brown sugar; 1/2 cup, low-sodium beef broth; 1 teaspoon, fresh chives, minced; 2 tablespoons, sour cream; 1 tablespoon, prepared horseradish (Use 2 tablespoons for spicier sauce.)

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2009

Sauces

Stop! Don't wash that pan! Use the browned bits stuck to the skillet to create a restaurant-quality sauce in less than 10 minutes.

SERVES4 (Makes enough sauce for 4 steaks)

TIME20 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The first step was to pour off the fat from the steaks before building the sauce; otherwise it would be greasy. To draw out the flavors of red wine in our Horseradish-Chive Cream Sauce we reduced it with a scant amount of sugar before addin...

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