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béchamel

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Also known as white sauce, bechamel sauce

sauce of French cuisine

AI overview

Béchamel is a basic French sauce made from butter, flour, and milk that forms a smooth, creamy base. It's an essential building block in French cooking used in many classic dishes and sauces.

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Encyclopedic overview

Béchamel sauce (/ˌbeɪʃəˈmɛl/; French: [beʃamɛl] ) is a white sauce made from a roux of butter and flour, heated in cream or milk, and seasoned with ground nutmeg. Béchamel is one of the mother sauces of French cuisine.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “béchamel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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