No Fail Recipe: Tasty Simple White Sauce (Béchamel Sauce)

Simple White Sauce (Béchamel Sauce).

You can cook Simple White Sauce (Béchamel Sauce) using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Simple White Sauce (Béchamel Sauce)

1. You need 25 g of butter or margerine.
2. You need 25 g of plain flour.
3. You need 400 mls of milk.
4. You need of Salt and white pepper.
5. You need 80 g of cheese (optional).
6. It's of Nutmeg (optional).

Simple White Sauce (Béchamel Sauce) step by step

1. Melt the butter in your saucepan..
2. Add the flour and stir over a medium heat for 2-3 minutes..
3. Start to add your milk a little at a time, stirring continually to keep the sauce smooth. If you stop stirring the sauce will become lumpy. If this happens remove the pan from the heat and whisk the sauce vigorously to remove the lumps, then continue adding your milk over a low heat..
4. When all of the milk is added, bring the sauce up to the boil, still stirring continuously. Once it has boiled and thickened, add more milk if it’s too thick. Season with salt and pepper. Stop here for a basic white sauce..
5. To make the cheese sauce, add your cheese at this point and stir over a low heat until the cheese is melted. Don’t re-boil the sauce or it will become stringy. Add nutmeg to taste if you like, the sauce is now ready..