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Béchamel Sauce

Name: Béchamel Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Portuguese
Ingredients: 3 tbsp unsalted butter; ¼ cup plain flour; 1¼ cups fresh milk; Fleur de sel to taste; Freshly grated nutmeg to taste; Freshly ground white pepper to taste

One of the great French mother sauces — versatile and known worldwide.

Prep Time

5 min

Cook Time

10 min

Servings

Difficulty

Beginner

Introduction

This is one of the main sauces of French cuisine, being one of the most versatile and known worldwide. You can incorporate it, for example, into wonderful gratinated potatoes or salt cod.

Instructions

Melt the butter. Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat.
Make the roux. Add the flour and stir continuously with a whisk, creating a white paste (roux).
Warm the milk. Separately, warm the milk until lukewarm.
Incorporate the milk. Gradually add the milk to the roux, stirring constantly to avoid lumps.
Season. Season with fleur de sel and freshly grated nutmeg and white pepper.

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