Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, bechamel sauce. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bechamel Sauce is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Bechamel Sauce is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Preparation Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Bechamel sauce is a classic French sauce made from butter, flour, and milk. It's a versatile sauce that forms the base for most creamy sauces, gratins, macaroni and cheese, and many other dishes. Béchamel is a basic white sauce, one of the five mother sauces, that you can serve as-is, or use for making all sorts of other creamy, cheesy sauces.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bechamel sauce using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Bechamel Sauce:
- Get 5 tbs unsalted butter
- Prepare 4 tbs all purpose flour
- Make ready 4 cups 2% or whole milk
- Take 2 tsp salt
- Get 1/4 tsp ground white pepper
- Prepare 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
Making your own bechamel/white sauce is so easy and the result is delicious creaminess in every bite. Bechamel sauce is basically a sauce made from equal quantities of butter and flour to which milk is added and cooked until it thickens. The sauce is then seasoned with salt. This is Delia's classic way of making a white (béchamel) sauce, using a mixture of butter and flour called a roux.
Instructions to make Bechamel Sauce:
- In a medium, heavy bottomed sauce pan melt butter over medium heat. Add flour and wisk until smooth. This is your "roux".
- Continue cooking roux, wisking constantly, until it is a light golden/sandy color. Usually about 6-7 minutes.
- Add milk to roux 1 cup at a time. Wisking continuously through each addition until completely smooth. Bring sauce to a boil. Cook 10 minutes wisking constantly to prevent scorching, sticking, or clumping.
- Remove from heat. Stir in 1 tsp salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Taste and add additional salt as desired up to 2 tsp. Set aside until ready for use.
- Leftovers can be stored in an airtight container for a couple days. I've never tried freezing it so not sure if it freezes well or not.
The sauce is then seasoned with salt. This is Delia's classic way of making a white (béchamel) sauce, using a mixture of butter and flour called a roux. Creamy Bechamel Sauce made easy with just a handful of kitchen staple ingredients. Bechamel Sauce is one of my favorites. Vegan white sauce, also known as bechamel sauce.
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