Sauces help to give dishes a new taste and diversify the daily menu. Moreover, it is not necessary to prepare complex sauces with many ingredients, the simplest will also add new notes. The most used of them are mayonnaise and bechamel. For sweet foods, try making vanilla sauce.
Pick your recipe
You will need
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- Mayonnaise:
- eggs - 1 piece;
- lemon juice - 1 tablespoon;
- mustard - 1 teaspoon;
- vegetable oil - 1/2 cup;
- salt to taste;
- pepper to taste.
- Bechamel sauce:
- butter - 3 tablespoons;
- flour - 2 tablespoons;
- milk - 2 glasses;
- salt to taste;
- pepper to taste.
- Vanilla Sauce:
- milk 3 cups;
- eggs 4 pieces;
- sugar - 1 cup;
- flour - 1 teaspoon;
- vanilla sugar - 1 sachet.
Instruction manual
1
Release the egg in a tall bowl, add the lemon juice and diluted mustard (you can use the finished one) and beat well with a mixer. Then add a teaspoon of vegetable oil, without ceasing to whisk the mixture until you have used up everything. Ready sauce is a little yellowish in texture and resembles thick sour cream, but it is very light. In winter salads of vegetables with meat and fish, mayonnaise is used more often than others.
2
To prepare bechamel sauce, heat the milk, but do not boil. Then melt the butter in a frying pan over medium heat and gradually add flour to it, stirring surely. Keep stirring vigorously so that lumps do not form, gradually add milk.
3
When you pour in all the milk, bring the mixture to a boil while stirring and boil for a couple of minutes. Then salt and pepper the sauce and remove from heat. Bechamel sauce should thicken. To prevent a film from forming on it, crumble a little butter on top. This sauce is perfect for grilled meat and liver dishes.
4
To make a sweet vanilla sauce, take the yolks and mash them with white sugar, then add the flour. Gradually dilute the mixture with hot boiled milk and heat it until thickened, but do not boil.
5
Strain the sauce, add vanilla sugar and mix well. Vanilla sauce is good with pudding, casserole and cream.
note
A very simple and nutritious sauce can be made from avocados by peeling and mashing it with a fork and adding a tablespoon of lime or lemon juice. They can be seasoned with not only vegetable, but also fruit salads.
Useful advice
When preparing mayonnaise, it is better to use olive oil, instead of lemon juice, you can take vinegar.
For summer salads of fresh vegetables, prepare simple yogurt and sour cream sauces with herbs and garlic - they are light, healthy and very tasty.