Simple White Sauce (Béchamel Sauce)
Simple White Sauce (Béchamel Sauce)

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In a small saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Whisk in the flour, salt and pepper until smooth. Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook simple white sauce (béchamel sauce) using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Simple White Sauce (Béchamel Sauce):
  1. Make ready 25 g butter or margerine
  2. Make ready 25 g plain flour
  3. Prepare 400 mls milk
  4. Take Salt and white pepper
  5. Take 80 g cheese (optional)
  6. Make ready Nutmeg (optional)

We make a roux of white flour and butter and add milk to make a thick sauce. Then add grated parmesan cheese, salt and pepper. This easy-to-make sauce is delicious over chicken, pasta, steamed veggies, and more! If you only learn to make one sauce, make it this Bechamel Sauce recipe.

Instructions to make Simple White Sauce (Béchamel Sauce):
  1. Melt the butter in your saucepan.
  2. Add the flour and stir over a medium heat for 2-3 minutes.
  3. Start to add your milk a little at a time, stirring continually to keep the sauce smooth. If you stop stirring the sauce will become lumpy. If this happens remove the pan from the heat and whisk the sauce vigorously to remove the lumps, then continue adding your milk over a low heat.
  4. When all of the milk is added, bring the sauce up to the boil, still stirring continuously. Once it has boiled and thickened, add more milk if it’s too thick. Season with salt and pepper. Stop here for a basic white sauce.
  5. To make the cheese sauce, add your cheese at this point and stir over a low heat until the cheese is melted. Don’t re-boil the sauce or it will become stringy. Add nutmeg to taste if you like, the sauce is now ready.

This easy-to-make sauce is delicious over chicken, pasta, steamed veggies, and more! If you only learn to make one sauce, make it this Bechamel Sauce recipe. Bechamel (also known as White Sauce) is so simple to make, is incredibly useful and it also freezes brilliantly. Stash a batch in the freezer for a quick meal. I have this notebook that my Nana gave me many years ago for Christmas.

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