Sauce vierge (French enunciation: [sos vjÉ›ÊÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÊ’ É› Ê Ê’]; in English: literally, "virgin sauce") is a French sauce made from olive oil, lemon juice, sliced tomato and chopped basil. Often crushed coriander seed is included and variants might include the addition of other herbs such as chervil, chives and parsley. The ingredients are combined and allowed to infuse or macerate (relying on whether heat is applied or otherwise) in the oil to create the sauce. The sauce is normally offered with shellfish and delicately flavoured white-fleshed fish such as cod and sole. It is sometimes served over pasta. The sauce was popularised in the 1980s by Michel Guérard, a French chef, author, among the founders of nouvelle food and the inventor of cuisine minceur, from Eugénie-les-Bains, Aquitaine, in south-western France, and has actually since become a modern-day classic. In its initial form the sauce was meant as a Mediterranean preparation and contained a great deal of garlic. It was offered either warm or chilly after the natural herbs had actually been instilled in the oil.
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