Almondine sauce (Amandine)

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

Almondine sauce is an elegant and impressive classic french sauce commonly served with fish. It's easy to make at home and only takes a few minutes to create. Wild rainbow trout is my favorite fish to serve with this beautiful almond butter sauce.

This sauce, known as Amandine sauce in french, is simple yet beautiful and elegant. The crunchy toasted almonds and nutty brown butter pairs perfectly with rich flakey fish such as trout or salmon

What is almondine sauce?

Almondine sauce (Amandine) is a french classic most commonly served with trout fish.

This sauce highlights crunchy toasted almonds in nutty brown butter finished off with chopped parsley and fresh lemon juice.

The result is a rich buttery almond sauce that compliments soft flaky fish perfectly. The ideal sauce for trout!

What fish to serve with amandine sauce

Trout is the classic and most common fish to serve with this beautiful almond butter sauce. Wild ocean trout as well as fresh water species like rainbow and brown trout works great as trout almondine.

Salmon is also an excellent fish to serve with almondine sauce. Other white fish like sole, cod or halibut are also good options.

Ingredients you need

Only simple ingredients are used to make this impressive almond butter sauce recipe

Salted butter - best quality you can find

Sliced almonds - natural, preferably with skin on

Lemon juice - freshly squeezed

Parsley - fresh, finely chopped

How to make Almondine sauce

• Spread the almonds out on an oven tray. Roast the almonds in the oven until golden brown
• Add the butter to a hot frying pan, swirl the pan so the butter melts evenly. Cook until the butter is golden brown and smells nutty.
• Add the lemon juice, roasted almonds and parsley. Set aside.
• Serve with your favorite fried or baked fish

Hint: For perfect browned butter you want the butter to melt evenly. Use cubes of chilled butter and a light-colored heavy bottom sauté pan to achieve this. A stainless steel skillet is ideal, the heavy bottom ensures the butter cooks evenly while the light color lets you observe the butter’s color as it browns.

Why you love this almondine sauce recipe

• Almondine butter sauce is a simple sauce to make but will lift and compliment your fish and make it an impressive dish to serve.
• It only contains four simple ingredients that you probably got in your pantry already
• The crunchy almonds adds nice texture while the nutty brown butter gives the sauce a wonderful fragrant element that pairs well with fish

What to serve with fish almondine sauce?

Potatoes - Any kind of potatoes works for this dish

Crusty bread

Crunchy greens - Green beans are a classic side veg for this dish, however broccoli, snowpeas, sauted spinach, zucchini or any other greens are great too

This is an excellent sauce for trout, however other soft flaky fish works well too.

Try this almondine sauce recipe at home. I'm sure you love it!

Storage

Leftover sauce will keep in the fridge for 2-3 days. Not suitable for freezing

Top tip

• This dish comes together very quickly, so it is important to have all of your ingredients ready and prepped beforehand.
• It's important that both the almonds and butter are a deep golden brown color for that lovely nutty taste that we want to achieve with this pan sauce. It's a fine line between dark golden and burnt. Be sure to watch the almonds and butter carefully and turn the heat off once you got the perfect deep golden color.

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