Bechamel sauce

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 350 ml, you will need:

• 1 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 2 tablespoons flour
• 3 2 glasses milk
• 4 grated nutmeg
• 5 salt
• 6 pepper
• Total weight: 278 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
3 min.	15 min.	18 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a pan on low heat. When it sizzles, add 2 tablespoons flour all at once.
2	Mix well and cook, stirring continuously, until the mixture become light brown. This mix, which can be prepared beforehand, is called a "roux", and in this case a "blond roux". If you continue cooking, you will get a "brown roux".
3	Pour 2 glasses milk (cold) onto the roux, all at once. Mix thoroughly. You have there the secret of succeeding with a bechamel: if roux is hot, add cold milk if roux is cold (perpared beforehand), add hot milk Salt, pepper and add grated nutmeg. Leave to cook on low heat, stirring up continuously until bechamel thickens.
4	The thickness of bechamel is a question of taste.
5	You can make variations on bechamel: like for example Mornay sauce, which is a bechamel with grated cheese added.

Remarks

Bechamel can be easily made beforehand, and reheated when necessary.

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