Newburg sauce recipe

This Seafood Newburg recipe includes lobster, shrimp, scallops, and fish (haddock or hake fillets) simmered in a rich sherry-spiked cream sauce for a decadent retro dinner meal that also happens to be fast and easy.

Shrimp Newburg is similar to Thermidor as both contain seafood and a creamy sauce. But this recipe uses sherry and calls for paprika instead of mustard.

Newberg or Newburg sauce is a 100% French sauce with an all-American name, and, is 100% associated with the famous dishes: lobster Newberg and seafood Newburg. That said, this sauce is not just for seafood. In fact, the sauce itself doesn't contain lobster or any other seafood, and, it isn't made with lobster or seafood stock either. It's a silky-smooth, sinfully-rich, liquor-laced cream sauce, originally made from cream, cognac, sherry, egg yolks and cayenne pepper. This combination of…

Chunks of buttery lobster tails smothered in a rich and smooth cream sauce, this lobster Newburg recipe will be the highlight of your meal.

This sinfully-rich dish of sweet, tender seafood swimming in a silky-smooth cream sauce is one of those quintessential dishes of the latter 1950's, '60's and '70's that sadly, many cooks have forgotten about. Not me. It's one of the first fancy-schmancy restaurant dishes American housewives started making at home because it didn't take a ton of time or a lot skill to prepare from scratch. Then, as with almost anything made with a cream sauce at the time, the cream-of-soup people stuck their…

Seafood Newburg is a delicious, romantic dish. My take on a classic is to be flexible with the type of seafood and simplify the sauce without compromising taste.

"Lobster Newberg. Also "lobster a la Newburg"...The dish was made famous at Delmonico's Restaurant in New York in 1876 when the recipe was brought to chef Charles Ranhofer by a West Indies sea captain named Ben Wenberg. It was an immediate hit, especially for after-theater suppers, and owner Charles Delmonico honored the capatain by naming the dish "lobster a la Wenberg." But later Wenberg and Delmonico had a falling-out, and the restauranteur took the dish off the menu, restoring it only by…

Bring home the fancy, with this easy homemade béarnaise sauce recipe to top any dish, like beef prime rib, lamb, or fish.

My families traditional Christmas eve dinner.

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