Sentence examples for black sauce from inspiring English sources

It is rare to find a black sauce and it provides a wonderful contrast to the more common reds and greens on the plate.

Burger King in Japan is taking bizarre fast food to new heights with black cheeseburgers complete with black buns, black cheese and black sauce.

Roasted chicken breasts come with a lasagne of enchiladas and mole (a classic purplish black sauce made of chocolate, tomato and chillies).

Another stellar dish is the stuffed baby cuttlefish in black sauce, a tender delight sweetened with onions, olive oil and the meat of the cuttlefish.

But the highlight was the beef tenderloin with chichilo negro ("ashes sauce"), a thick black sauce made with avocado leaves and oja santa, the leaf of the sarsaparilla plant integral to root beer.

RECOMMENDED DISHES -- Stuffed baby cuttlefish in black sauce; braised baby octopus, caponata; any homemade pasta; any risotto; codfish with pine nuts, raisins and fennel; grilled swordfish; calamari and clams with garlic, tomatoes and hot pepper.

One or two dishes were easier to resist, like pork in a murky green-black sauce or hard-cooked eggs in an extremely mild coconut-milk curry.

The cassoulet at D'Artagnan can raise a sweat in the dead of winter, and a recent special, baby lamb in a peppery, ink-black sauce thickened with chunky fava beans, could do serious damage in the heat of July.

And, while the short ribs are ably executed — the meat does indeed fall off the bone — the unusual accoutrements (a smear of spicy red-black sauce, a scattering of goji berries, a dollop of chestnut purée) fail to elevate them above the ordinary.

I won't dwell on failures like a watered-down version of chicken in a black pepper sauce ($15) or fish in mustard sauce ($17), which was hard to distinguish from the chicken's black pepper sauce.

BEST DISHES: Congees, fried bread, razor clams with black bean sauce, sweet potato greens with XO sauce.