BECHAMEL SAUCE
Ingredients
- 1/2 Onion
- Butter: 25 g
- Flour: 1 tablespoon (25 g)
- Locust bean gum: 2 -4 g (teaspoon)
- Milk: ½ L
- Nutmeg: 1 teaspoon mocha
- White pepper: 1 teaspoon mocha
- Salt: 1 teaspoon mocha
Elaboration
We can make a much lighter béchamel sauce, with half the flour or less, and therefore with half the butter/ margarine/oil (whatever we use), using locust bean gum.
In the traditional recipe for béchamel sauce, we put the same amount of flour as butter. For ½ L of milk, 2 heaped spoons of flour (50 g) and 50 g of butter are used. In this recipe we propose, we reduce these two ingredients to half, leaving a creamy and fantastic béchamel sauce to make the best recipes. If we are going to make béchamel for croquettes, which is denser, we will use 4 g of locust bean gum, instead of 2-3 g.