Cheese sauce - 8 recipes how to make at home

To prepare a delicious side dish, it is not enough just to sprinkle the finished pasta with grated cheese. This is the simplest option for those cases when there is only a couple of minutes to cook dinner. A truly delicious treat will turn out with a gentle cheese sauce.

Classic Cheese Sauce

Ingredients: 230 g of pasta, 130 g of hard salted cheese, a full glass of fat milk, a slice (about 30-40 g) of butter, a mixture of spices to taste.

1. Selected pasta is boiled in salted boiling water until cooked.
2. While preparing the base, the cheese is grated with the smallest holes.
3. In a small stewpan, milk is combined with butter and spices. The mixture can be slightly added.
4. The mass is left on medium heat until the cheese is completely melted.
5. Finished spaghetti or other items recline in a colander, but are not washed.

While still hot, they are poured with pasta cheese sauce and mixed thoroughly.

With the addition of sour cream

Ingredients: 40 g of hard salted cheese, 2 chicken eggs, 25-30 g of butter, 2 tbsp. tablespoons white flour, 90 g sour cream, 80 ml of very fat cream, salt, white pepper. How to cook cheese sauce with sour cream, is described below.

1. The cheese is grated as finely as possible, and then combined in one bowl with raw eggs, sour cream, ground white pepper. The mixture is added to taste. If the cheese is salty enough, no extra salt is needed.
2. Butter is melted in a frying pan. The mass from the first step is added to it. Cream is also poured here, and flour is poured.
3. After stirring, the food warms up over low heat for a couple of minutes.

Boiled or fried pasta of any kind is generously poured with the finished sauce.

Cream Cheese

Ingredients: 2/3 Art. grated parmesan, 2 full cups of fat milk, 70-80 g butter, 120 g cream cheese, a pinch of dried basil and nutmeg, salt, garlic clove, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of olive oil.

1. Olive oil is heated in a stewpan. A creamy component is immediately added to it.
2. Shredded garlic is fried on this mixture. After 3-4 minutes, milk is poured there, and pieces of cream cheese are laid.
3. It remains to pour salt, seasonings and grated cheese.

At minimum heat with stirring, the sauce is cooked until thickened.

Cheese and garlic sauce

Ingredients: 430 g of cheddar cheese, 5 large tablespoons of butter, salt, 2 large tablespoons of high-grade flour, 3 garlic wedges, a pinch of freshly ground black pepper, 2 full cups of fat milk.

1. Butter is cut into pieces and put into a stewpan. It needs to be melted and heated over medium heat until numerous bubbles appear.
2. Flour is poured into the hot mass. So that the sauce does not work with lumps, you must first sift it a couple of times through a fine sieve.
3. After thorough mixing, garlic is chopped into small pieces. Beat the ingredients until the mass acquires a light brown tint.
4. The fire is reduced, milk is poured into the stewpan with a thin stream. Beating continues until the mixture boils. In this condition, it must be left for about 1 minute.
5. Next, grated cheese is poured. The components are mixed until uniform.
6. Salt and pepper are added.
7. It remains to whip the sauce and cool it slightly.

Served such an addition to pasta and other warm side dishes.

Gourmet Cheese Option

Ingredients: 160 ml of whole cow’s milk, a large spoonful of butter, a pinch of sea salt, 110 g blue cheese, a large spoon of high-grade wheat flour, a mixture of peppers. How to make gourmet delicacy cheese sauce is described in more detail below.

1. In a roomy stewpan over low heat, butter is melted. To speed up the process, it should first be cut into pieces.
2. Flour is poured into the resulting liquid. The mixture immediately begins to beat with a whisk to prevent the formation of lumps.
3. The flour is fried in butter until it becomes light cream.
4. Milk is poured here. It must be hot. Continuous stirring continues.
5. Slices of cheese, a mixture of peppers, the required amount of salt are added.
6. The mass is left on fire until the cheese is completely dissolved. In this case, constantly stir the contents of the stewpan.

Served hot sauce to the table.

Parmesan sauce at home

Ingredients: 40 g of grated Parmesan, 130 g of fat sour cream, 80 g of mayonnaise, a large spoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice, ½ small. tablespoons coarsely ground black pepper, 3 anchovy fillets.

1. First, the fish fillet is ground in a blender.
2. Sour cream and cheese are laid out for anchovies.
3. Pepper, mayonnaise and lemon juice are sent to the same container.
4. All ingredients are mixed and crushed to a uniformity using a suitable blender nozzle.
5. The resulting sauce must be transferred to a glass container, tightly covered with a lid.

Before taking a sample, you need to let the resulting mixture infuse in the cold for at least 2 hours.

Cheddar Cheese

Ingredients: 3 tablespoons of high-grade wheat flour and fatty butter, 170 g of cheddar, 2.5 faceted glasses of milk.

1. First of all, the cheese is ground using a grater with large or medium divisions.
2. Butter you need to choose fatty and high quality. The spread is definitely not suitable. It only spoils the finished sauce.
3. The butter is cut into small slices and melted in a saucepan. Well-sifted flour is added to this beforehand.
4. The mass is left on fire until it acquires an appetizing golden hue. In addition, the delicate aroma of nuts should start to come from the sauce. It gives only real cheddar cheese.
5. Milk is poured into a container for other products with a thin stream. It must be preheated in advance.
6. The sauce is left on fire until it begins to thicken. Only after that cheese is poured into it. It is necessary to constantly stir the mass with a whisk.

Once the cheese has completely melted, the resulting sauce can be poured over ready hot pasta, stewed vegetables or another selected side dish. It goes well with chicken dishes.

Cream cheese sauce

Ingredients: 60 g of fatty butter, a full glass of medium-fat cream, salt to taste, freshly ground pepper, a large spoon of wheat flour, 90 g of grated parmesan.

 

1. In a frying pan with medium heating of the stove, pieces of butter are melted. Flour is poured here. The ingredients are mixed until smooth.
2. When the mixture turns brown, cream can be poured into it. The components are mixed with a whisk so that no lumps appear in the sauce. The mass is brought to a boil.
3. Then you can add salt, pepper, grated cheese to the mixture.
4. When the cheese component melts, the dish is completely ready.

The sauce is served with a variety of hot meat and vegetable treats. You can add any finely chopped greens to it.