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Cheese sauce ingredients: cheese, butter, flower and milk

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How to make cheese sauce

December 12, 2019 • In Cheese,

Whether you’re making a Killer Mac ‘n’ Cheese, a comforting lasagne or a cauliflower cheese, you’ll need to know how to make cheese sauce.

The trick is to get the sauce silky smooth, which is easy to do as long as you add the milk gradually, stirring constantly so that each new addition is fully incorporated before adding the next.

Take your cheese sauce up a level by adding garlic, thyme, rosemary or bay leaves, mustard, a grating of nutmeg or plenty of freshly ground black pepper – it’s a great vehicle for other flavours.

Here’s a step-by-step guide to basic cheese sauce:

You’ll need:

50g unsalted butter

50g plain flour

600ml semi-skimmed milk

75g mature Cheddar cheese

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Equipment:

medium saucepan

wooden spoon or balloon whisk

box grater

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Your basic cheese sauce is now ready to go! Check out these recipes for ways to use it: