Cheese Sauce
Cowbridge Kitchen
This is a thick creamy Cheese Sauce that can be made with any type of Cheese but Mature or Extra Mature Cheddar is best for a distinctive cheesy flavour.
Cheese sauce is used in many recipes including Cauliflower Cheese, Cheesy Nachos or Cheesy Potatoes.
5 mins Prep.
10 minutes
Time
200 g
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This is ideal for Cheesy Chips, Cauliflower Cheese or even Nachos.
If you are going to use American cheese slices this will be slightly cheaper to make.
Cost to make:
£1.52/ $1.92(Est.)
Equipment:
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Cheese Grater,
How to Make Cheese Sauce
This recipe for Cheese Sauce is a pretty basic recipe, but you can mix it up a bit and use half Cheddar Cheese & Half Stilton Cheese for a delicious stilton sauce.
This recipe can be adapted to many different Cheese Sauces, even a spicy Nacho Sauce - Just season with Tabasco Sauce and use American Cheese (7 slices).
Cuisine:British
ingredients
30g Butter
25g Flour
250ml Milk
1/4 tsp Nutmeg
Pinch Black pepper
Cooking Instructions
- Grate the cheese into a suitable container and set aside.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan, on a low heat.
- Mix the Flour, Nutmeg & Black pepper together in a small bowl.
- Warm the Milk in a microwave for a minute or two so that it is warm.
- When the butter has melted add the Flour mix then whisk it together to form a Roux.
- Slowly add the warm milk, whisking all the time until the sauce starts to thicken.
- Add the Cheese and let it melt into a thick cheese sauce.
Replace 50% of the Cheddar Cheese with Stilton for a much stronger Stilton Cheese Sauce
If you use processed American cheese slices and season the sauce with Tabasco.
½ tsp Tabasco Sauce
Cheddar Cheese
50% Stilton Cheese
Edam Cheese
Double Gloucester