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Bechamel Sauce Recipe | White Sauce Recipe | White Sauce for Pasta

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Total time
20 min
Serves
4
Cuisine
Italian
Bechamel Sauce Recipe | White Sauce Recipe | White Sauce for Pasta

Ingredients

  • All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1/4 cup
  • Butter - 1/4 cup
  • Milk - 4 cups
  • Nutmeg Powder - a pinch (may be 1/8th tsp)
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper to taste

Steps

  1. 1

    Heat butter in a pan, add in flour and mix for a min till the raw flour taste goes away.

  2. 2

    Slowly add in milk and keep whisking. Bring it to a boil. The sauce will thicken.

  3. 3

    When the sauce coats the back of the spoon then it is done, it will thicken as it cools.

  4. 4

    Add in nutmeg, salt and pepper. Whisk well.

  5. 5

    Pour this in a container. Cover it with plastic wrap, make sure the top of the sauce touches the plastic wrap this prevents a skin from forming.

  6. 6

    Store in fridge and use as needed.

  7. 7

    Keeps well for 3 to 4 days.

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