White Wine-Butter Sauce with Capers

Name: White Wine-Butter Sauce with Capers
Yield: Serves 4 (Makes about 2/3 cup)
Ingredients: 1/2 cup, white wine; 1/4 cup, water (or liquid used if steaming fish); 1 tablespoon, capers, drained and brine reserved to yield 1/2 teaspoon brine, capers coarsely chopped; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small pieces; 1 teaspoon, chopped fresh parsley leaves

Fish & Seafood
Quick
Sauces

Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 1995

This sauce matches quite well with fish and seafood. It is not a thick sauce; rather it bathes the fish with a light coating.

SERVES 4 (Makes about 2/3 cup)

TIME 10 minutes

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