Healthy Béchamel-Style Sauce

[Guest guest]

Who can't use a healthy white sauce recipe? I'don't know how I'm going

to avoid putting a stick of butter in this!!!! Anybody use those

butter buds things? How do they work in heated sauces?

 

 

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Healthy Béchamel-Style Sauce

1 tablespoon + 1-1/2 teaspoons arrowroot

2-1/2 cups evaporated skim milk

8 black peppercorns

1 (1/2-inch thick) slice onion

1 bay leaf

1/8 teaspoon salt

Pinch of white pepper

Pinch of nutmeg

 

 

 

 

 

Combine the arrowroot with enough skim milk to form slurry. Wrap in

cheesecloth or coffee filter; add peppercorns, bay leaf, and onion.

Bring the remaining milk and cheesecloth sachet to a simmer in a

medium saucepan.

Remove cheesecloth sachet.

Add the slurry to the simmering milk. Stir constantly until the sauce

thickens. Season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg.

Per serving:

 

Calories: 20; Dietary Fiber: 0 g; Total Fat: 0 g

Carbohydrate: 3 g ; Sodium: 70 mg ; Protein: 2 g

Cholesterol: 0 mg

 

Source: Suzanne Magni, R.D., L.D., The Kroger School of Cooking

Formatted by Chupa Babi in MC: 11.06.06

 

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[Guest guest]

*klunk* that is the sound of me falling out of my computer chair after reading

the words " Healthy Béchamel " LOL, if my dear old Chef F-D was still around,

she'd probably be screaming some rather naughty words in French at the

abomination of...

 

I actually have tried the fake butter stuff in béchamel but it was dog food.

The stuff is ok, dry, on popcorn, but béchamel, the Patron Saint of French

sauces? Mon Dieu! Oh l'horreur!

 

Jeanne, shuddering in GA

 

 

 

 

 

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