Creamy Cheese Sauce
Original, savory, and incomparably delicious! This creamy cheese sauce makes a perfect partner for pasta or hot main dishes. It has a smooth, delicate consistency, and thanks to the Parmesan it has a strong, vivid cheese flavor.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make creamy cheese sauce? Get your ingredients ready. Parmesan is a hard cheese, and grating it at home is rather tedious and time-consuming, so it's worth buying it pre-grated. If you can't find Parmesan, substitute any other hard cheese.
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Step 2:
Melt the butter in a skillet over the lowest heat so it doesn't burn.
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Step 3:
Gently add the wheat flour. Stirring, cook the flour in the butter until it turns golden.
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Step 4:
Carefully start adding the cream. Pour it in a little at a time, stirring the sauce right away with a spatula so no lumps form. Keep going until all the cream is in.
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Step 5:
Into the nearly finished sauce, add salt (keeping in mind how salty the cheese is) and ground black pepper. You can also add a little grated nutmeg for a richer flavor and aroma. Stir in the grated Parmesan until the sauce is smooth.
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Step 6:
If the sauce seems too thick, you can add a little more cream or some milk to reach the consistency you want. It's best served right after it's made, though it's also good warm or chilled. Enjoy!
- For the dish to come out well and taste good, be sure to use fresh, high-quality cream. Stick with products you know — choose a trusted brand. I used 20% cream; it's not a good idea to use low-fat cream, since it may curdle and leave the sauce unappetizing. The same standards — quality, freshness, and being all-natural — apply to the butter. You can use this sauce in other dishes too, such as pizza. Instead of Parmesan, you can use a similar bold-flavored hard cheese (Grana Padano, Rokiškis, Džiugas, or Swiss).
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Buttermilk - 36 kcal/100g
- Cream of 20% fat content - 300 kcal/100g
- Cream of 10% fat content - 120 kcal/100g
- Cream - 300 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Wheat flour - 325 kcal/100g
- Parmesan cheese 45% fat content - 389 kcal/100g
