Basic White Sauce
Do you remember when your Mom or Grandma made a basic white sauce to put over food like vegetables, chicken, lamb, shrimp, fish, beef, veal or ham. Maybe you even make it yourself now. It is a simple sauce that adds a different taste to food and can be used alone or you can add other ingredients to it like curry, dill, cheese or mustard for a different taste . If you can’t get your kids to eat their vegetables or a certain meat, give this a try to see if you can change their mind.
Source: Betty Crocker Cookbook
Ingredients
In a small saucepan over medium
low heat, melt the butter.
Add the flour, salt and pepper.
Stir constantly over medium low
heat until smooth and bubbly.
Remove from the heat and stir in the milk.
Return to the heat, stirring
constantly, bring to a boil.
Boil for 1 minute stirring constantly.
Add to whatever food you like and
serve or add one of the ingredients
at the bottom of the recipe
card below and then serve.
Basic White Sauce
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Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp butter
- 2 Tbsp all purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp pepper
- 1 cup milk
Directions
- Heat the butter in a small saucepan over medium low heat until melted.
- Stir in the flour, salt and pepper.
- Cook over medium low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is smooth and bubbly; remove from the heat.
- Stir in the milk until smooth.
- Place back on the heat and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
- Boil for 1 minute.
- Pour over whatever food you plan to use with the sauce.
- If you want a thicker white sauce, increase both the butter and flour to 1/4 cup.
- To make a curry sauce add 1/2 tsp curry powder with the flour. Serve with chicken, lamb or shrimp.
- For a dill sauce, stir in 1 tsp snipped dill weed or 1/2 tsp dried dill weed and a dash of ground nutmeg with the flour. This is good with fish.
- For mustard sauce you need to decrease the butter and the flour to 1 Tbsp each. After boiling and stirring for 1 minute, stir in 3 Tbsp prepared mustard and 1 Tbsp prepared horseradish. Serve with beef, veal, ham or vegetables.
- For a cheese sauce, add 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese to the sauce after you boil it for 1 minute, stirring until melted.
Categories: Sauces, Uncategorized
White sauce yummmm!!!!…..i love it when i have it with italian pasta my fav!!!
Another great idea…Thanks!
I just made a white or Bechamel sauce yesterday when I made my chicken pot pies. 🙂
Another GREAT way to use the sauce! Thank you for a new idea!
Anytime. 🙂
Did someone say chicken pot pies? Wow! sounds good to me
That ALWAYS sound good! I haven’t made any in a while. Now you have inspired me!
Thank you.
You’re welcome!
love white sauce , glad to know the right ratio of flour and butter , I mostly estimated it!
And I bet you have made it so much that it turns out perfect every time!
My kids love white sauce in their pasta so yes I make it very often, but I usually just guestimate 🙂 am gonna try the proper way this time !!
Gravy!
Do you use it just like this or add more to it?
Pretty much like it is. I’m different, I like hot peppers and/or hot sauce in mine lol.
Thanks I haven’t used it for gravy yet!
Ok you’ve talked me into it.. I’m putting your recipe to use and making some biscuits… lol!
What time do we eat? Hahaha
ASAP!
On my way!
👍👍👍
Nice. 🙂 I will make a cheese sauce for cauliflower and a sweet white sauce for Christmas pud. 🙂
I used the cheese sauce on broccoli…..my next post..lol It would be great on cauliflower too!
Yes, it’s lovely on both these veg, but I don’t like broccoli! 😀
Thanks for the reminder! One of the first things I learned to cook in Home Ec.
It’s an easy one to forget! You’re welcome Valerie!
Looks good
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing. I haven’t made a white sauce for a long time – great reminder because its so versatile and adds so much to the meal!!
You’re welcome! It really does add so much! Brings back so many memories.
You’ve made One of the five mother sauces. For us home cooks raised in the Midwest the 5 are: white gravy, brown gravy, tomato sauce, mayonnaise and clear stock. Some CIA trained chef can give the proper names. Betty Crocker rules in my kitchen.
Oh yes Betty Crocker recipes are always no fail!
I’m going to try it this weekend
Enjoy I put mine over veggies!
I’d put it over meat
Yum!
I love anything with a white sauce on it
This is the first time I have made it…shocking right…hahahaha I remember having it a a kid but never thought about making it until now.
Oh I love a good white (or bechamel as the French & Italians say) sauce! So decadent!
You taught me a new name! Thanks Erica!
No problem!
I didn’t know you could make cheese sauce from white sauce! Glad you posted this recipe!
Yum!!!
Thank you Tammy!
Welcome much!!
Time blast back as Betty Crocker must be dead at least 30 years. I have one of her cook books. Thank you for a version of rue ill most certainly use .The last recipe from you cooked out well and I enjoyed it. Just had enough green veg in store that day and de gratan worked well with it.
Oh yes I love my Betty Crocker cookbook as well! She may be gone but her recipes will live on forever!
I have never known how to make this. Now I do. Thanks, Diane!
You are welcome Kellye! This is a basic white sauce so experiment with different additions like cheese and herbs.
So many good ideas. Thank you for the recipe, whenever I make it, I always guess at the measurements. I put sliced hard boiled eggs in my white sauce and spoon it out over biscuits – Mom called that “creamed eggs”
You are very welcome Kev! I never had it with eggs and biscuits, that sounds delicious!!!
Great recipe to use for all different meals especially being able to add different spices/ingredients. Do you have a good recipe for Hollandaise sauce? I love that on Eggs Benedict
https://indianeskitchen.com/2018/07/13/hollandaise-sauce/ This is delicious and one of my favorites!!!
Thanks Diane!
You’re welcome and see what you did to me! I was craving Eggs Benedict!
Same in England dear. I like to add powdered garlic to basic recipe given .it can be used with roast chicken by adding bread crumbs and reboil until thicker as bread sauce
It is such a versatile sauce, isn’t it Kevin? It can perk up just about anything. Have a great weekend Kevin.💕
I am a little behind in my reading. This is my go to white sauce recipe. I love it!
Good Ole Betty Crocker recipe!
I find myself turning to Betty fairly regularly!
Fail proof recipes!