Bechamel Sauce Recipe | White Sauce Recipe | White Sauce for Pasta
Simple bechamel sauce recipe with step by step pictures. White sauce is one of the popular mother sauce recipe.
Ingredients
- All Purpose Flour / Maida - ¼ cup
- Butter - ¼ cup
- Milk - 4 cups
- Nutmeg Powder - a pinch may be ⅛th tsp
- Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
Instructions
- Heat butter in a pan, add in flour and mix for a min till the raw flour taste goes away.
- Slowly add in milk and keep whisking. Bring it to a boil. The sauce will thicken.
- When the sauce coats the back of the spoon then it is done, it will thicken as it cools.
- Add in nutmeg, salt and pepper. Whisk well.
- 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.
- Store in fridge and use as needed.
- Keeps well for 3 to 4 days.
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