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Mornay Sauce

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

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Last modified on: June 12^th 2024

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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

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How long will it take?

Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
6 min.	9 min.	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

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,298 Kcal or 5,434 Kj	90 gr	211 gr	204 gr
65 %	35 %	20 %	31 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
224 Kcal or 938 Kj	16 gr	36 gr	35 gr
11 %	6 %	3 %	5 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
325 Kcal or 1,361 Kj	22 gr	53 gr	51 gr
16 %	9 %	5 %	8 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Gluten, Egg

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 1.83 €
Per person : 0.46 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Bechamel sauce: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Croque-monsieur potatoes, Escalope cordon bleu, Leek and Mimolette tart, Spinach Croque-monsieur , Harvest Gratin, ... All
	Comté cheese: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Gratin of Jerusalem artichokes à la Comtoise, Mini cheese and mustard toasts, Salmon and spinach quiche, Montlebon toast, Soft Croque-monsieur with 3 cheeses, ... All
	Egg yolk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Little lemon biscuits, Lime confectioner's custard (pastry cream), Gâteau Breton (Brittany butter cake), Scallops with crunchy vegetables and wine sabayon, Finger biscuits, ... All

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