Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce)

It took me couple of tries to get close enough in recreating a recipe for Jager Sauce which I tried in local German restaurant.

I must say I love how it turned out: creamy, mushroomy with a hint of wine and a little more than a hint of smoked bacon.

Traditionally, Jager Sauce is being served with schnitzels.

And I found it works great with meat roasts and fried meat, as well as with any kind of potato sides.

Ingredients:

2 thick sliced double smoked bacons (about 4oz)
12 oz of portobello baby mushrooms
2 onions
2 garlic cloves
0.5 cups of white chardonnay wine
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup chicken broth
2 tablespoons of flour
1.5 tablespoons of butter
Ground black pepper
Thyme
Marjoram
Salt

How to prepare, step-by-step:

Prepare ingredients:
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 1
Warm up deep sauce pan over moderate heat. Dice bacon and add it to the pan:
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 2
Fry bacon until colored, stir from time to time (keep produced juices):
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 3
Add diced onions:
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 4
And fry them until soft and colored (continue stirring):
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 5
Add chopped garlic, stir couple of times until it becomes fragrant:
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 6
Then add sliced mushrooms:
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 7
Continue stirring and cooking everything together until liquid produced by mushrooms is evaporated:
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 8
Add wine, cook until reduced in half:
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 9
Then pour broth in:
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 10
Followed by heavy cream:
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 11
Season with salt to taste:
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 12
And thyme, marjoram and ground black pepper, and let sauce cook over slow simmer while you prepare thickening part of it:
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 13
Fry flour in melted butter on a skillet and gradually dilute it with about ladle of liquid part of the sauce, for that:
Melt butter in a skillet
Pour flour in
Mix with spatula

Until flour absorbs all butter
Gradually start mixing sauce spoon by spoon
Cook until homogeneous, stir constantly
Pour prepared substance into sauce:
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 15
Bring sauce to slow simmer and cook until desired thickness and tenderness of mushrooms:
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 16
Serve sauce warm with a schnitzel or another food of your choice:
Jäger Sauce (Mushroom Hunter Sauce): Step 17