Basic Cheese Sauce
Recipe: #961
October 20, 2011
Categories: Sauce, Butter Sauces, Cheese, Cheddar, Mozzarella, 5 Ingredients Or Less, 5-Minute Prep, Christmas, Easter, New Years, Sunday Dinner, No Eggs, Vegetarian, more
"This is as the title says a basic cheese sauce. You can spruce it up by adding your favourite herbs to this or spice it up by adding a bit of hot sauce. Drizzle it over your favourite cooked veggies or use it for a mac and cheese."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (59.9 g)
- Calories 91.6
- Total Fat - 5.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.6 g
- Cholesterol - 17.5 mg
- Sodium - 162.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 4.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.1 g
- Sugars - 2.1 g
- Protein - 5.4 g
- Calcium - 175.7 mg
- Iron - 0.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Melt butter in heavy saucepan on top of stove.
Step 2
Add flour and stir until well mixed and bubbly being careful not to scorch.
Step 3
Remove from heat and add milk a bit at a time; stirring until well blended.
Step 4
Return sauce to heat and bring to a slight boil, stirring constantly.
Step 5
Reduce heat, add shredded cheese and Parmesan and cook until cheese melts and there is no taste of raw starch.
Step 6
Add salt and pepper to taste.
Tips
No special items needed.