How to Make Cheese Sauce

Basic cheese sauce. Easy Peasy.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 3 cups shredded cheddar cheese
• 1 cup milk
• 4 tbsp butter/margarine
• 2 tbsp flour
• sprinkle pepper

1. Grate the cheese. The ingredients I've listed are for a fairly small batch of cheese sauce. For a larger batch you may wish to double/triple the recipe.

2. 
    

   Melt the butter in a frying pan over medium-high heat. On a gas stove, you may wish to set the heat to medium.

3. Stir the flour into the melted butter to make a roux. This means to mix the flour into the butter until it is a moistened paste.

4. Stir the milk into the roux. Bring it to a boil.

5. Add the shredded cheese. Stir the mixture until it is well blended and all the cheese is melted. At this point you can operate for taste. More or less cheese can be added, depending on how you like your cheese sauce. If you add too much cheese, you can always add more milk to thin the sauce. Add any seasonings, salt, pepper you want to add at this point.
   
   Turn off the heat, remove the sauce from the heat, and it is ready.

Tips & Warnings

• If you are making macaroni and cheese, add the sauce into the boiled and drained pasta. Stir it together. Sprinkle more shredded cheese over the top. Put the macaroni and cheese into a 375 degree oven and bake it for 20-30 minutes, or until the desired baked crust has developed.
• Same procedure for broccoli and cheese, and cauliflaur and cheese. If you like fine broccoli and cheese, you may want to mash or food process the boiled vegetable first.
• You can use any kind of cheese you want.
• For Alfredo sauce, follow the above directions, but use parmesan cheese.

[godfather25]

on 10/28/2009 Very nice cheese sauce recipe.