Rainbow sauce
{{Short description|Type of culinary sauce}}
Rainbow sauce refers to several types of culinary sauces. The term also refers to a food presentation or preparation style in which several sauces are placed on a food dish or plate alongside one-another, and also a sauce preparation method in which several sauces are mixed together.{{cite news | url=http://go.dallasnews.com/events/2014/aug/18/241917/ | title=DFW Restaurant Week 2014: Dinner at The Wild Mushroom | newspaper=The Dallas Morning News | date=August 18, 2014 | accessdate=5 September 2014}}{{cite web | url=http://www.bestfoodinchina.net/content/chynna-0 | title=Best Food In China - Chynna | publisher=Hatsune Restaurant Group | date=April 20, 2011 | accessdate=5 September 2014}}
Rainbow sauces
Rainbow sauce is a dessert sauce prepared with pineapple, candied cherries, apricot, citron, pears, and pistachio nuts.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bFU2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA120 | title=The Dispenser's Formulary, Or, Soda Water Guide | publisher=D.O. Haynes | year=1915}} The ingredients are chopped, combined, and boiled in simple syrup to create a sauce. This sauce is typically served atop of an ice cream.
The term also refers to sweet and sour sauce that may utilize many types of ingredients that are combined and heated to create a sauce.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19621101&id=z3YyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2OkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3058,193735 | title=Weekly Menus To Help You Plan Ahead | newspaper=The Miami News | date=November 1, 1962 | accessdate=5 September 2014}} Myriad ingredients in its preparation can include green pepper, canned fruit cocktail, corn starch, vinegar, pineapple, pickled and sweet ginger, pickled cucumber, carrot, maraschino cherries, sugar, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, lemon juice, cranberry juice, and others. This type of sauce may be served on chicken dishes,{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19760519&id=Le1fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YzIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=6823,1653159 | title=Oriental food adds valuable fiber to diet | newspaper=Lodi News-Sentinel | date=May 19, 1976 | accessdate=5 September 2014 | author=Delight, Susan}} among others.
Another version is a savory sauce prepared with ingredients such as cream, white wine, shallots, and oranges.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=26ryAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Rainbow+sauce%22 | title=Gourmet, Volume 43, Issues 7-12 | publisher=Condé Nast Publications | editor=Metzelthin, Pearl Violette Newfield | year=1983}} This sauce may be served with fillets of rainbow trout, among other foods.
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