Blue Cheese Sauce

by Sabrina Snyder

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12 Servings
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
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Blue Cheese Sauce is rich, velvety, and packed with flavor! Perfect for elevating steak or drizzling over your favorites in just 10 minutes!

This decadent Sauce Recipe is perfect to serve over your favorite Beef Dinners. It’s easy to make and can elevate any simple dinner recipe to make it even more delicious, similar to my Blue Cheese Butter Recipe.

Sabrina’s Blue Cheese Sauce Recipe

This sauce is wonderfully rich and flavorful, making it perfect for serving over your favorite steak recipes. You can pour this sauce over your dinner or serve as a side for dipping. This sauce is so creamy and flavorful that it only takes a bit to add robust flavor to your dinner. It’s great to serve with Christmas dinner or other holiday meals. 

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Dinner, then Dessert

Blue Cheese Sauce Recipe

Blue Cheese Sauce is rich, velvety, and packed with flavor! Perfect for elevating steak or drizzling over your favorites in just 10 minutes!
Yield 12 Servings
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Course Sauce
Cuisine French
Author Sabrina Snyder
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Ingredients
 

  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1/2 yellow onion , chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 2/3 cup blue cheese , crumbled (divided)

Instructions

  • Add butter, onion, salt, and pepper to a large skillet on medium heat.
  • Cook, stirring often, until caramelized and softened, about 6-8 minutes.
  • Add in the heavy cream and ½ cup blue cheese crumbles.
  • Stir together and let cook for 3-4 minutes until thickened.
  • Turn off heat, stir in remaining blue cheese and serve.

Nutrition

Calories: 129kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 38mg | Sodium: 189mg | Potassium: 46mg | Fiber: 0.1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 466IU | Vitamin C: 0.5mg | Calcium: 55mg | Iron: 0.1mg

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Chef’s Note: Choosing Blue Cheese

Blue cheese has a distinct, salty, and bold taste that goes perfectly with this sauce. The cheese crumbles throughout this recipe make it especially flavorful and play perfectly with the savory taste of classic beef recipes. While all varieties of blue cheese have this taste, you can try out different kinds to see what you like best. Some of the most popular kinds of blue cheese are Gorgonzola, Maytag Blue Cheese, Danish Blue Cheese, and Buttermilk Blue. Any of these will taste great in this sauce recipe.

How to Serve and Store

  • Serve: Due to the dairy in the recipe, you shouldn’t leave Blue Cheese Sauce at room temperature for more than 2 hours. 
  • Store: This sauce is best made fresh; however, you can store leftovers in the fridge. Once it’s cooled to room temperature, put it in an airtight container and it will keep well in the fridge for 3-5 days. 
  • Freeze: Unfortunately, the dairy products won’t freeze well, so if you haven’t finished the sauce within 5 days, you’ll have to toss it out and make a fresh batch. 

Ideas to Serve

If you’ve tried Blue Cheese Crusted Filet Mignon, then you know that blue cheese and steak are meant for each other. So this sauce is perfect to serve over any steak recipe, like Ribeye and Classic Prime Rib. Try it spooned over Filet Mignon for a traditional French dish. When you serve the steak, you can also drizzle the sauce over all the side dishes and enjoy it with everything. 

Variations

  • Worcestershire Sauce: For some extra tangy and savory flavor in your Blue Cheese Sauce, try mixing in 1-2 teaspoons of Worcestershire sauce. Add the sauce at the same time you pour in the heavy cream.
  • Garlic: Adding one minced garlic clove can play up the blue cheese flavors in the sauce wonderfully. 
  • Lemon Juice: There are so many different flavors you can experiment with in the sauce. For a fresh, citrus taste, try squeezing in some lemon juice. 1-2 teaspoons of lemon juice should do the trick, and this flavor is great if you’re making the sauce in the spring. 
  • Cream Replacements: If you don’t have heavy cream, there are a few replacements you can use. One option is mixing together ¼ cup melted butter and ¾ cup milk. For a thicker replacement, mix Greek yogurt and milk. Either of these will make a rich, creamy sauce. 

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About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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  1. Oh yum! My brother is the bleu cheese King. I’m going to try this recipe the next we see him. Thank you for all the hard work you do for we your followers.??

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