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Bechamel sauce

Bechamel sauce is a classic, made from a cooked butter-flour mix called "roux", where milk is added and slowly cooked. We get a thick sauce, used in many recipes.

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Last modified on: June 13^th 2024

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For 700 ml, you will need:

1 4 tablespoons butter
2 4 tablespoons flour
3 4 glasses Milk
4 grated nutmeg
5 salt
6 pepper

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 3 min.

Melt 4 tablespoons butter in a pan on low heat.

When it sizzles, add 4 tablespoons flour all at once.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

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".

Stage 3 - 10 min.

Pour 4 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.

Stage 4

The thickness of bechamel is a question of taste.

Stage 5

You can make variations on béchamel, such as Mornay sauce, which is a béchamel sauce to which egg yolks and grated cheese are added.

Remarks

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

Keeping

Several days in the fridge, in a closed jar.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,105 Kcal or 4,626 Kj	29 gr	83 gr	73 gr
55 %	11 %	8 %	11 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
199 Kcal or 833 Kj	5 gr	15 gr	13 gr
10 %	2 %	1 %	2 %

% 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

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For 700 ml : 0.93 €

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