Cheese sauce
Prep Time
1 min
Cook Time
8 mins
Total Time
9 mins
The tricky bit to cheese sauces is to get the cheese to melt into the sauce. After plenty of cheese sauces gone texturally wrong (grainy, sticky, lumpy), I finally developed this foolproof method using cream cheese as a basis.
Course:
Main Course, Sauce, Side Dish
Cuisine:
American, Italian
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 1/2 c shredded real cheese any type
- 2 t butter
- 1/2 pack 4 ounces of cream cheese
- 1/4 c heavy cream or half-and-half
- 1/4 c milk
Instructions
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In small saucepan, melt 2 t butter over medium-low heat.
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Add cream cheese and stir continuously until melted, about 3 minutes.
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Add cheese and continue to stir 2 minutes.
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Then begin slowly adding cream, about 1 T at t time, stirring after each addition.
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After cream is fully added, add milk in the same manner.
Recipe Notes
Serve directly over cauliflower, broccoli, or pasta.
Love this cheese sauce, and so easy to put together. We love it on roasted cauliflower. Thanks, Stacy!