White Sauce or Bechamel Sauce
White Sauce or Bechamel Sauce

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, white sauce or bechamel sauce. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

White Sauce or Bechamel Sauce is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. White Sauce or Bechamel Sauce is something which I have loved my entire life.

Preparation Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Today's recipe is Béchamel sauce commonly known as white sause. Which is one of the mother sause for many recipes like lasagne, mac and cheese and even.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook white sauce or bechamel sauce using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make White Sauce or Bechamel Sauce:
  1. Make ready 1 tablespoon butter
  2. Prepare 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
  3. Get 1 1/4 cups milk, cold
  4. Get 1/4 th teaspoon Salt or to taste (very little)
  5. Prepare 1 inch cinnamon stick
  6. Take 1 bay leaf
  7. Take 1 teaspoon onion purée
  8. Make ready 1 teaspoon garlic paste
  9. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon Freshly ground pepper
  10. Get 2 tablespoons grated cheddar cheese
  11. Take 1/2 teaspoon Italian herbs

Béchamel sauce (/ˌbeɪʃəˈmɛl/ French: [beʃamɛl]) is a sauce traditionally made from a white roux (butter and flour) and milk. Bechamel may also be referred to as besciamella (Italy), besamel (Greece). Béchamel sauce (besciamella in Italian) has French origin and has become part of Italian culinary tradition for a very long time. It's also known as White Sauce or Mother Sauce because many sauces are made with béchamel as a base, such as Mornay, which is a somewhat richer version.

Instructions to make White Sauce or Bechamel Sauce:
  1. Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan.
  2. Stir in the flour and cook, stirring constantly for 2 minutes, don't let it brown.
  3. Switch off the gas and add the milk, and continue to stir as the sauce thickens. - Bring it to a boil.
  4. Add cinnamon stick, Onion purée, garlic paste, bay leaf, salt and pepper to taste, lower the heat, and cook, stirring for 2 to 3 minutes more.
  5. Stir in grated Cheddar cheese and Italian herbs during the last 2 minutes of cooking.
  6. Remove from the heat and discard the cinnamon stick and bayleaf.

Béchamel, known as white sauce in the Midwestern kitchens of my youth, is a very, very helpful thing to know. Here's why, and how to make it. Béchamel (white) sauce is a really versatile little sauce. I use this white sauce for lasagne, pasta bakes, cauliflower cheese, fish pie, there are so many possibilities. It's really simple to make at home with everyday ingredients.

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