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White Sauce or Bechamel Sauce

White Sauce or Bechamel Sauce
White Sauce or Bechamel Sauce is a vegetarian recipe with 4 servings. This sauce has 111 calories, 3g of protein, and 8g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have salt, flour, milk, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

1
Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Stir in the flour and cook, stirring constantly, until the paste cooks and bubbles a bit, but don't let it brown — about 2 minutes.
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Add the hot milk, continuing to stir as the sauce thickens. Bring it to a boil.
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Add salt and pepper to taste, lower the heat, and cook, stirring for 2 to 3 minutes more.
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Remove from the heat. To cool this sauce for later use, cover it with wax paper or pour a film of milk over it to prevent a skin from forming.
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Cheese Sauce.
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Stir in 1/2 cup grated Cheddar cheese during the last 2 minutes of cooking, along with a pinch of cayenne pepper.
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Warm the milk on low heat just until little bubbles begin to form at the edges. Then remove from heat.
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Reprinted with permission from The Fannie Farmer Cookbook by Marion Cunningham. © 1996 Knopf
DifficultyMedium
Ready In45 m.
Servings4
Health Score7
Vegetarian
DietsLacto Ovo Vegetarian
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