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Mornay Sauce

Name: Mornay Sauce
Prep time: 6 min
Cook time: 9 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 500 g bechamel sauce; 30 g egg yolk; 50 g Comté cheese

Mornay sauce is made from béchamel sauce, to which egg yolk and grated cheese are added.

29 K 5/5 (38 reviews)

15 min.

Easy

1.85 €

4 people

3 Ingredients

Last modified on: June 12^th 2024

For 4 people, you will need:

1 500 g bechamel sauce
2 30 g egg yolk
3 50 g Comté cheese
Total weight: 580 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation: 6 min.

Cooking: 9 min.

All in all: 15 min.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 5 min.

Prepare 500 g bechamel sauce, or reheat it if you made it in advance.

Stage 2 - ⌛ 1 min.

Add 30 g egg yolk...

Stage 3 - ⌛ 4 min.

...and bring back to the boil, whisking constantly.

Stage 4 - ⌛ 1 min.

Add 50 g Comté cheese...

Stage 5 - ⌛ 4 min.

...and carefully whisk in.

Turn off the heat and your Mornay sauce is ready.

Note: If you need a very smooth sauce, you can give it a quick blast with a blender, or strain it through a sieve.

Stage 6

If you're not going to use it straight away, wrap it in plastic wrap, as, like béchamel sauce, it crust quickly.

Remarks

The cheese used is usually a hard one: Comté, Gruyère, Emmental, Cheddar, Parmesan, etc., but you can also use other cheeses to suit your taste, such as Roquefort, Mont d'or or Gorgonzola.

Curiously enough, in his book "Ma cuisine", Auguste Escoffier uses Parmesan and no egg yolks for his version of Mornay.

The name comes from a 19^thcentury epicurean named Philippe de Mornay.

Keeping: 1 or 2 days in the fridge, protected by cling film.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	90 RDI=40 %	210 RDI=20 %	200 RDI=30 %	1,300 RDI=70 %	5,430 RDI: 70 %
Per 100 g	20 RDI=6 %	40 RDI=3 %	40 RDI=5 %	220 RDI=10 %	940 RDI: 10 %
Per person	20 RDI=9 %	50 RDI=5 %	50 RDI=8 %	320 RDI=20 %	1,360 RDI: 20 %

Possible allergens in this recipe: milk, Gluten, egg

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 1.85 €
Per person : 0.50 €

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Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.

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