Classic bread sauce
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Easy
- December 2011

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Serves 8
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Takes 10 minutes to make, 10 minutes to cook, plus infusing
Simple, creamy and a must with turkey, this bread sauce recipe will complete your roast dinner.
Nutrition: per serving
- Calories
- 114kcals
- Fat
- 4.3g (2.5g saturated)
- Protein
- 4.2g
- Carbohydrates
- 15.7g (3.8g sugars)
- Salt
- 0.4g
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Ingredients
- 1 onion, halved
- 6 cloves
- 600ml whole milk
- 5 black peppercorns
- 2 bay leaves
- 125g fresh white breadcrumbs
- Knob of butter
- Grated fresh nutmeg to taste
Method
- Stud the onion halves with the cloves and place in a medium saucepan with the milk, peppercorns and bay leaves. Bring to the boil, turn down the heat, then simmer gently for 5 minutes.
- Remove from the heat, then leave to infuse for an hour or so. Strain and discard the solids.
- Pour the infused milk back into the pan, beat in the breadcrumbs and half the butter and simmer gently for 5 minutes to thicken. Just before serving, beat in the rest of the butter, season, and grate in nutmeg to taste. Spoon into a bowl and serve with the turkey.
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