How to Make White Sauce

Why do you need to know how to make white sauce? This is how you make a Bechamel sauce, which is one of the 5 mother sauces.

The process is also called making a roux, it is simply the start of how you make a white sauce. Whether it is an Alfredo Sauce, Garlic White Sauce, Cheese sauce or a plain white sauce this is how you do it in easy steps. Making a white sauce is extremely easy and a great way to finish off your meals. Try adding sauce to cooked noodles, mixed into casseroles, replace cream of canned soups, or stir into cooked vegetables. Find the recipes for these sauces through the links above.

Basic White Homemade Sauce Recipe

1 Tablespoon butter
1 Tablespoon flour
1 Cup milk
salt and pepper to taste
1 teaspoon other seasonings, such as garlic or Italian seasoning if desired
Melt butter. Whisk in flour making a roux. Whisk in milk and seasonings. Simmer until thickens.

	Melt your butter.
	Whisk in your flour.
	Whisk in your chicken broth or milk, whatever liquid your recipe calls for.
	Blend in cheese,  seasonings or whatever other ingredients your recipe calls for.
	Add your sauce to your dish.

We made Garlic Sauce Pasta in the photos above.

Try some recipes with white sauce now:
Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Homemade cream of chicken soup
Homemade cream of mushroom soup
Fettucine Alfredo Sauce
Chicken casserole -substitute canned cream soups with homemade
Chicken cordon bleu - top with a white sauce
Chicken enchiladas
Chicken pot pie
Broccoli Casserole
Chicken Roll ups
Hawaiian haystacks
Ham Casserole