Basic Bechamel Sauce for the Four Cheese Barquettes
From choclytcandy 15 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 4
The Silver Spoon is Italy's best-selling cookbook for over fifty years. Bechamel Sauce for the Four Cheese Barquettes Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter shopping list
- 1/4 cup flour shopping list
- 2 1/4 cup milk shopping list
- pinch of freshly grated nutmeg (optional) shopping list
- salt and pepper shopping list
How to make it
- Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat. Whisk in the flour.
- Pour in all the milk, whisking constantly until it starts to boil.
- Season with salt, lower the heat, cover and simmer gently, stirring occiasionally, for at least 20 minutes.
- Bechamel sauce should not taste floury. Remove pan from the heat. Taste and add more salt if necessary and season with pepper and/or nutmeg.
- If sauce is too thick, add a little more milk.
- If too runny, return to the heat and add a pat of butter mixed with equal quantity of all-purpose flour.
- For a richer Bechamel, replace half the milk with the same amount of heavy cream.
- For a lighter Bechamel, add half milk and half water.
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Simply perfect, and I love it that you provided the alterations!
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