How to Make a Cheese Sauce

Making a cheese sauce is simple and something everyone should know how to do.  This sauce is wonderful over broccoli (or other veggies), stirred into rice, as the cheese in mac-n-cheese, over chips to make nachos, as fondue, and anything else you can imagine.  You can tweak the taste by using different cheeses.  Asiago, any blue cheese, Brie, Camembert, Colby, fontina, Gouda, Gruyère, Havarti, and Monterey Jack all melt smoothly.  Always remove the rind from any cheese before using it in cheese sauce. 

Ingredients:

Servings: 2 ½ cups
Time:    Prep: 5 minutes, Cook: 10 minutes
Hardware:  Measuring spoons and cups, a whisk, a wooden spoon, a sauce pan

Ingredients:

• ⅛ cup butter
• ⅛ cup flour
• ½ teaspoon dry mustard
• A pinch of black pepper
• 1 ½ cups milk
• 2 cups grated sharp Cheddar cheese

1. Melt the butter over medium heat.
2. Whisk in the flour, mustard, and pepper.  Make sure there are no lumps.
3. Slowly stir in the milk until it is smooth.
4. Stir in the grated cheese.
5. Stir constantly until the sauce is melted and thick.  Serve warm.

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