Bechamel Sauce
Bechamel Sauce

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, bechamel sauce. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Preparation Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Learn how to make homemade bechamel sauce. This creamy white sauce can be used in many recipes such as lasagna, moussaka, croquettes, pasta dishes.

Bechamel Sauce is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Bechamel Sauce is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bechamel sauce using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Bechamel Sauce:
  1. Take 5 tbs unsalted butter
  2. Make ready 4 tbs all purpose flour
  3. Take 4 cups 2% or whole milk
  4. Make ready 2 tsp salt
  5. Get 1/4 tsp ground white pepper
  6. Get 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

Making your own bechamel/white sauce is so easy and the result is delicious creaminess in every bite. This bechamel sauce recipe is easily mastered. This is Delia's classic way of making a white (béchamel) sauce, using a mixture of butter and flour called a roux. Creamy white sauce pasta aka béchamel sauce pasta is one of my favorite pasta recipes.

Instructions to make Bechamel Sauce:
  1. In a medium, heavy bottomed sauce pan melt butter over medium heat. Add flour and wisk until smooth. This is your "roux".
  2. Continue cooking roux, wisking constantly, until it is a light golden/sandy color. Usually about 6-7 minutes.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

It's cheesy and oh so good! Packed with veggies, this is a great way to make kids eat their veggies! This béchamel sauce recipe is a classic French white sauce which is often used as the basis for Béchamel sauce is made by the roux method where butter and flour are cooked together then. 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.

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