This classic & simple white sauce recipe uses just 5 ingredients!
How to make Bechamel Sauce | White Sauce Recipe
Bechamel Sauce is a white creamy sauce that can be used for a variety pasta or meat dishes and is very simple to make.
Equipment
- 1 pot medium-sized
Ingredients
- 50 g butter
- 1 pinch nutmeg
- 1 pinch table salt
- 500 ml milk full cream is best
- 50 g plain flour sifted
Instructions
- Turn the stove on to a medium-low heat.
- Add the butter to your pot and place it on the stove.50 g butter
- Wait until the butter melts. You can help it by moving it around with a wooden spoon.
- Place the strained flour into the pot and quickly mix it into the butter, still using the wooden spoon.50 g plain flour
- Keep mixing until you can no longer see the white flour.
- Break down any of the larger pieces of the mixture and continue to mix.
- Pour half of the milk slowly over your mixture while still on the stove and start to mix it through.500 ml milk
- Add the remaining milk, nutmeg and table salt.1 pinch nutmeg, 500 ml milk, 1 pinch table salt
- Continue to mix the sauce until it becomes creamy and there are very few or no lumps.
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What do I serve with white suace?
You can use this sauce in many of my recipes, including Graziella’s Zucchini Crepes, my vegetable lasagne or my Crepe Cannelloni with Ricotta & Spinach!
E ora si mangia, Vincenzo’s Plate…Enjoy!
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