Bechamel Sauce

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recipe by Kenwood https://kenwoodworld.com/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    15mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    6
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    125
based on 654 ratings

Béchamel sauce, also known as white sauce, is made from a white roux and milk. It is considered one of the mother sauces of French cuisine which means it is used as the base for other sauces such as mornay (cheese) sauce. This recipe will give you 550 grams worth of sauce.

recipe updated 19 Dec 2024

Ingredients

  • Butter icon
    Butter
    40 g
  • Plain flour icon
    Plain flour
    40 g
  • Milk icon
    Milk
    500 ml
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    1 teaspoon
  • White pepper icon
    White pepper
    ¼ teaspoon
  • Nutmeg icon
    Nutmeg
    ¼ teaspoon

Tools

  • kCook icon Plastic wrap
  • kCook icon Cooking Chef XL
  • kCook icon Cooking chef xl bowl

Step preview

  1. Attach the Creaming Beater
  2. Add butter to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  3. Lift the Cooking Chef head and fit the heat shield
  4. Cook with splashguard fitted - 1 min, 95°C, Stir 1
  5. Then add plain flour to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  6. Cook with splashguard fitted - 3 min, 95°C, Stir 1
  7. Add milk to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl while machine is running
  8. Cook with splashguard fitted until thickened - 8 min, 90°C, Stir 1
  9. Then add salt, white pepper and nutmeg to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  10. Mix with splashguard fitted - 20 sec, Stir 1
  11. Cover with plastic wrap
  12. Use
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