Name: Basic Bechamel Sauce (instructions for Cheese Sauce included)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 6 min
Ingredients: 2 Tablespoons butter; 2 Tablespoons self-rising flour; 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon Salt and pepper; 1 cup milk

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Bechamel Sauce & Cheese Sauce recipe is an easy, basic sauce recipe. Master this and you can make many different sauces.<

Béchamel sauce is known as white sauce, is made from a white roux (butter and flour) and milk. It is a mother sauce of French cuisine. This simply means it’s the base sauce for other sauces such as Mornay sauce, which is Béchamel with cheese.

With a medium thickness, this sauce is perfect for mac and cheese. It’s often used in gratins like potatoes and baked vegetables.

Béchamel sauce is known as white sauce, is made from a white roux and milk. It is a mother sauce of French cuisine which simply means it's the base sauce for other sauces. It is the perfect sauce for mac and cheese.

Bechamel Sauce & Cheese Sauce

You can make this white velvety sauce in two easy steps. Make a roux and add gradually your milk. Season with salt.

It’s simply delicious!

How do you make this sauce?

Melt butter in a saucepan.
Stir in an equal amount of flour
Cook the mixture for just under a minute. This is known as a roux.
Stir in milk, a little at a time, making sure to stir well so that no lumps form.
Bring the mixture to the boil, stirring constantly, so that the mixture thickens and becomes glossy.

Melt butter, add flour and cook 2 minutes.

Add milk and bring to a boil.

Add 2 c cheese and stir until melted for Cheese Sauce.

Basic Bechamel Sauce (instructions for Cheese Sauce included)

How to make the 'mother sauce' bechamel as well as cheese sauce.

Author: Paula

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Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 6 minutes

Servings: 8 servings

Ingredients

2 Tablespoons butter
2 Tablespoons self-rising flour
1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon Salt and pepper
1 cup milk

Instructions

Melt 2 T butter in a sauce pan.
Whisk in 2 T self-rising flour. Cook a couple minutes. Do not let brown.
Add Salt and pepper.
Pour 1 c milk into sauce pan and whisk until smooth.
Bring to a boil, then reduce and simmer until thick.
Taste and adjust seasoning.For Cheese Sauce
Add 2 cups you favorite cheese to Bechamel Sauce.
Whisk until melted.

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Kimmy says

09.10.19 at 4:51 pm

How much pasta should you use for this sauce?

- Paula says
  
  09.12.19 at 7:06 am
  
  It just depends on how saucy you want the noodles. I would use 8 ounces of dry pasta. You can also double, triple, etc that base sauce for as much as you need.
  
Jackie says

03.01.16 at 8:57 am

Hi
Why don’t you have a print button on your website.

- Paula says
  
  03.01.16 at 12:22 pm
  
  This is probably the only recipe I don’t have a print on. Because it’s in a step by step process. .

Bechamel Sauce & Cheese Sauce