Basic bechamel sauce

This traditional white sauce is delicious with fish, pasta or vegetables.

Recipe «Basic bechamel sauce» presented in category Recipes / Fish, to prepare this dish you will need no more 15 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 60g butter, chopped, 1/3 cup plain flour, 4 1/2 cups milk, 75g parmesan cheese, finely grated, 1/4 tsp salt , good pinch ground nutmeg .

Ingredients:

• 60g butter, chopped 
• 1/3 cup plain flour 
• 4 1/2 cups milk 
• 75g parmesan cheese, finely grated 
• 1/4 tsp salt 
• good pinch ground nutmeg 

Instructions

1. Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat until foaming. Add flour. Cook, stirring, for 1 to 2 minutes or until bubbling. Remove from heat. Slowly add milk, whisking constantly, until mixture is smooth. Return to heat. Cook, stirring with a wooden spoon, for 10 to 12 minutes or until sauce comes to the boil, thickens and coats the back of a wooden spoon. Remove from heat. Stir in parmesan, salt and nutmeg.