The most original Cheese sauces - delicious and very appetizing
It is difficult to find a person who does not like cheese: due to the variety of cheeses, everyone can find an option to their taste - creamy, smoked, soft, brine, etc. Many dishes are prepared with cheeses, and by sprinkling with grated cheese, you can make almost any dish even tastier and more appetizing. Perhaps this is why cheese sauces appeared - because of the great love of mankind for this dairy product and the desire to add its taste to all dishes.
Making this sauce doesn't take much time and doesn't require taking culinary courses - it's incredibly simple, considering how delicious the sauce turns out to be.
CHEESE SAUCES - THE BASE
The basis of many cheese sauces is Bechamel sauceBy adding different types of cheese and spices, you can prepare a variety of, but always delicious sauces: blue, three cheeses, cold, creamy, with shrimp and many other products.
Cheese sauces based on Béchamel are just one of the varieties of all kinds of sauces that can be made from cheese. Such sauces are also made by mixing cheese with yolks, broths, water, cream, starch, onions, butter, etc.
Cheese sauces can be used to season almost any main course, including side dishes and meat dishes – spaghetti, vegetable stews, casseroles, cutlets, meatballs, fried meat, fish, poultry, etc.
Classic cheese sauce is a great option for any dish.
CLASSIC CHEESE SAUCE RECIPE
You will need: 150-200 ml of vegetable/chicken broth and milk, 100-150 g of cheese, 50 g of butter, 1 tbsp of flour.
How to make a simple cheese sauce. Fry flour in 30 g of butter for 1 minute, pour in warmed milk, then warmed broth while stirring vigorously, bring to a boil, cook for 3 minutes until thickened, pour in grated cheese, stir, cook the sauce until the cheese dissolves, then another 2 minutes, add salt, season with the remaining butter.
Classic cheese sauce can also be made with Béchamel - by boiling it, then adding grated cheese to the sauce and waiting for it to dissolve. You can add any cheese and spices to taste to Béchamel, thereby changing its flavor notes.
Of course, depending on the different products used to prepare the sauce, the dishes to which a particular cheese sauce is best suited will also be different. For example, for meat dishes, the ideal option would be this cheese sauce.
RECIPE FOR CHEESE SAUCE FOR MEAT DISHES
You will need: 100 g each of Parmesan cheese and cream, 2 tbsp. mustard, pepper, salt.
How to make cheese sauce for meat. Bring the cream to a boil, stirring, pour in the grated cheese, stir, add mustard, stir, pepper and salt the prepared sauce.
RECIPE FOR CHEESE SAUCE FOR VEGETABLE DISHES
You will need: 150 g cheese, 3 cloves of garlic, 2 sweet peppers, 3 tbsp sour cream, 2 tbsp mustard, curry, pepper, salt.
How to make cheese sauce for vegetables. Bake peppers in the oven until the skin turns black, put in bags, tie tightly, leave for 20 minutes, peel and remove seeds, chop finely, grind everything together with curry, sour cream, mustard, garlic and cheese until smooth in a blender.
To give the cheese sauce a smooth, viscous consistency, add a few drops of lemon juice or wine to the grated cheese before adding it to the other ingredients.
RECIPE FOR CHEESE SAUCE FOR SPAGHETTI AND PASTA
You will need: 200 g grated cheese, 2 tbsp each of flour and butter, 200 ml milk, pepper, salt, garlic/mustard – if you want a spicy cheese sauce.
How to make cheese sauce for noodles. Mix grated cheese with flour and melted butter, melt the mixture over low heat, stirring until the consistency of thick sour cream, pepper and salt, then pour in milk 1-2 tbsp, stirring the sauce well each time, when all the milk has been added, bring the sauce to a boil, cook for 2 minutes and remove from the stove, having previously seasoned the sauce with mustard or garlic if you want the sauce to be spicy.
If you prepare this sauce using cream instead of milk, it is better to season it with walnuts and fresh finely chopped herbs.
RECIPE FOR CHEESE SAUCE FOR FISH
You will need: 300 g cream/milk, 40 g grated cheese, 15 g potato starch, 2 raw yolks, green onions, lemon juice, salt.
How to make cheese sauce for fish. Make cream in a water bath from cream mixed with yolks and starch, add salt and lemon juice, stir and remove from the bath. Add green onions and cheese to the cooled cream, stir.
This sauce is suitable not only for fish, but also for vegetable casseroles, meatballs and other dishes.
Try to make the taste of your favorite dishes even brighter by adding cheese sauce, but do not forget - this delicious seasoning increases the calorie content of dishes several times, so you should not treat yourself to it every day.
