5 Delicious Dipping Sauce Recipes (2024)

FAQs

What are the top 10 dipping sauces? ›

Bechamel – a milk based sauce that is thickened with a roux (clarified butter and flour). This sauce is named after its creator Louis XIV's steward, Louis de Béchamel. Considered the king of all sauces, and often called a cream sauce because of its consistency, this sauce is most often used in all types of dishes.

Five basic types of sauces appear over and over again on menus and in cookbooks that feature the kind of vegetable-heavy, flavor-dense food that cooks and eaters favor today: yogurt sauce, pepper sauce, herb sauce, tahini sauce and pesto.

Barbecue sauce, often used for grilled and fried meats in the United States. Bean dip, dip made from refried beans. Blue cheese dressing, commonly used as a dip for raw vegetables or buffalo wings. Buffalo sauce, often used as both a coating for Buffalo wings as well as a standalone dipping sauce for other foods.

What is the oldest dipping sauce? ›

Possibly the oldest recorded European sauce is garum, the fish sauce used by the Ancient Romans, while doubanjiang, the Chinese soy bean paste is mentioned in Rites of Zhou in the 3rd century BC.

That's right—mayonnaise! According to sales figures, the creamy sandwich spread regularly accounts for more than $2 billion in annual revenue. Many consider mayo to be the top condiment in the U.S. What's the top condiment worldwide?

The most popular sauces in the United States include ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, BBQ sauce and hot sauce.

Famous chef Marie-Antoine Carême codified the four original Mother Sauces in the early 1800s. His recipes for Velouté, Béchamel, Allemande, and Espagnole were vital to every French chef. About 100 years later, chef Auguste Escoffier reclassified Allemande as a “daughter sauce,” or variation, of velouté.