Bechamel is a typical French gastronomic sauce, very suitable for garnishing toast, lasagna, especially Mousaka. It is made of flour, butter and milk and is highly regarded for its pleasant soft, velvety taste and most importantly delicious consistency. However, when preparing white sauce, the main difficulty is to obtain sauce without lumps. How to get there? Suggest.
This material is a necessary ingredient for making delicious white sauce
To make white sauce, all you need is a pan and a blender. Then for the ingredients, you will need butter, flour and milk. Generally, for 50 cl of milk, you will need about 40 grams of flour and 40 grams of butter.
How to prepare the batter?
The goal here is to obtain a white batter, which is why it is not necessary to brown the butter and flour for a long time. The trick is to pour the milk as soon as the mixture begins to take on a slightly golden color. The preparation must be done with medium heat. First, the butter must be melted, and then all the flour must be poured in, paying attention to immediately mixing with a whisk. Continue mixing to get the desired color.Note that there should be a slight boiling at this time
How to add milk?
You have two options, either add cold milk to the hot batter, or let the batter cool and then add the hot milk. The operation should be done little by little, extending the cooking time by up to two minutes until it thickens. On the other hand, you should avoid pouring hot milk into hot batter. In fact, by making this mistake, you may see bumps appear.
How to season the Beckham sauce?
Once it thickens, add salt, pepper, and ground nutmeg to the white sauce. You can also add other ingredients, depending on your taste and preferences.
How to remove the lumps in the sauce?
Nevertheless, there are still lumps in your Beckham? In this case, just pour the sauce into the blender after adding the milk. Then put it on a small fire until it thickens.
notes: There is a light version of Beckham sauce. The latter can be prepared with cornstarch (rather than flour) and special low-fat cooking butter.