Basic Sauce - Salsa Di Besciamella

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour (king arthur)
• 4 cups milk, hot
• fine sea salt, to taste
• pepper, to taste

Recipe

• 1 in a large saucepan, melt the butter over med-low heat. do not let the butter brown.
• 2 whisk in the flour, and cook it until a uniform paste is formed, and no streaks of flour remain.
• 3 slowly whisk in the milk in a steady stream.
• 4 cook about 10 minutes, stirring slowly until the sauce coats the back of a wooden spoon.
• 5 season with salt and pepper.