Lemon white sauce for fish and vegetables
Rich, thick and aromatic lemon white sauce (bechamel) is a creamy sauce for fish, vegetables and baked pasta. Quick and easy lemon sauce recipe.
Ingredients
- 300 ml milk
- 1 organic lemon (only the zest)
- 25 g butter
- 25 g all-purpose flour
- grounf nutmeg to taste
- ground pepper to taste
- salt to taste
Instructions
Instructions lemon white sauce for fish and vegetables
- Pour the milk in a saucepan. Add grated lemon zest using only the yellow part and not the white one which is bitter. Turn on the medium flame and slowly bring to a boil. Turn off the flame and leave the lemon to infuse in the milk until it becomes lukewarm. Then strain the warm milk through a sieve to remove the lemon zest and set aside.
- In a bowl melt butter over low heat. Remove from the heat and slowly add flour and mix with a whisk or wooden spoon.
- Put it back on the heat and cook for a couple of minutes. This mixture is called roux and it must not burn but become golden in color.
- At this point gradually add the previously heated milk, stirring vigorously with a hand whisk to avoid any lumps.
- After pouring in all the milk, while continue mixing, add nutmeg, salt and pepper. For this recipe, I used a pinch of pepper, half a teaspoon of salt, and less than half a teaspoon of nutmeg. Cook over low heat until the sauce thickens and begins to boil.
- Taste and adjust with more salt, pepper and nutmeg if necessary. If you want a more liquid sauce you will have to increase the milk. On the contrary, if you want to make it thicker, increase the doses of flour and butter.
- Pour it into a container and cover with a plastic wrap. Serve immediately or when needed.
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Notes
The nutritional values are generated automatically for indicative purposes only and are therefore not completely accurate.
Nutrition
Serving: 250mlCalories: 110kcal
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