White Sauce Recipe

White sauce is popularly also known as bechamel sauce.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup – Milk
1/4 cup – Parmesan cheese (optional)
1 tbsp – Butter
2 tbsp – Flour
1/8 tsp – Pepper
1 pinch – Nutmeg
2 pinch – Mustard (optional)
Salt to taste

Method:
Melt butter in a sauce pan over medium heat and add the flour.
Keep stirring the roux till you get a light glossy tinge.
Heat milk (lukewarm) and add it to the roux.
Keep stirring till the roux thickens and add the seasonings. Knorr White Sauce 2 lb – 2 Unit Pack

Apart from this simple base recipe, to enrich the flavour you can make your own variations, either by flavouring milk, adding cream or cheese.

Flavour the milk

Ingredients:
2 tsp – Butter
1 No – Bay leaf
1 No – Clove
1 No – Shallot or Onion sliced into half
6 No – Peppercorns
1 tbsp – Fresh Thyme
Pinch of mustard

Method:
Melt butter in a sauce pan over medium heat and add all the ingredients.
Let the mix cook on low heat till it reaches a simmer. Then turn off the heat strain and save the liquid and discard the rest.

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