How to cook cheese sauce. With sour cream

Cheese sauce is considered to be universal dressing. It is served with meat, fish, rice, nachos, pasta, stewed and baked vegetables, french fries, mashed potatoes. Consider the most popular recipes Here are step by step instructions.

Cheese sauce: classic

• Bechamel sauce or meat broth - 180 ml.
• cheese ("Parmesan", "Romano" or "Ricotta") - 170-180 gr.
• butter - 60 gr.
• fat milk - 90 ml.
• flour - 25 gr.

1. Heat a frying pan, send a cube of butter into it and melt it. Sift flour into a heat-resistant container, knead the components over low heat. Lightly fry the contents.
2. Add sauce or broth, pour in milk. Continue to mix the composition with a whisk, whisking with light movements until smooth. Grate the cheese in advance on a small section, mix into the total mass.
3. Immediately begin to intensively knead the contents, excluding lumps. When the cheese mass has melted, the sauce can be considered ready. As it cools, the dressing will take on a thicker consistency.

Tip: If desired, you can thicken the sauce by adding more cheese and flour. If you need to make a liquid dressing, add more broth.

Cheese sauce with walnuts

• garlic - 2 cloves
• walnut (kernels) - 60 gr.
• salt - 3 gr.
• olive oil - 125 ml.
• lemon peel - 30 gr.
• Pecorino Romano cheese - 90 gr.
• ricotta cheese - 415 gr.
• fresh basil - 45 gr.
• lemon juice - 80 ml.
• freshly ground pepper - 3 gr.

1. Fry the peeled walnut in a dry frying pan for 7 minutes, cool. Remove the husk from the garlic cloves. Chop the washed basil. Send all ingredients to a blender, add olive oil.
2. Blend the ingredients until you get a smooth puree. Place the peel and lemon juice here as well. Add ricotta cheese chopped into pieces. Turn on the device again, make a puree mass.
3. Grate Romano cheese, mix it with pepper, salt. Transfer the basil and walnut base to a bowl, add salted cheese. Mix the ingredients, refrigerate for 3 hours, use.

• fat milk - 360 ml.
• flour - 90 gr.
• hard cheese (to taste and wallet) - 240 gr.
• crushed salt - 8 gr.
• butter - 100 gr.
• freshly ground pepper - 3 gr.

1. Send the oil to the pan, put on the stove and cook until softened. When it becomes liquid, sift the flour. Stir the ingredients and fry until golden brown.
2. Break the milk into portions, pour in parts to the flour. The mass is languishing at a slow power, stir it with a whisk. When all the milk is poured, simmer the base of the sauce to a thick consistency.
3. Throughout the boiling, do not leave the stove, stir the composition. After about 7-8 minutes, add pepper and salt, you can add a pinch of nutmeg. Stir the dressing for another 2 minutes until the grains dissolve.
4. Grate the selected type of hard cheese on a small section, add in parts of 40-50 gr. Stir the ingredients until dissolved. When this happens, simmer the sauce for another 5 minutes, turn off the stove, taste.

Cheese sauce "Spicy"

• mustard "Dining room" (spicy) - 50 gr.
• Parmesan cheese - 90 gr.
• Dutch cheese - 50 gr.
• heavy cream- 130 gr.
• chopped pepper - 3 gr.
• salt - to taste

1. Pour the cream into a saucepan or skillet, heat. Grate two types of cheese in advance. Pour into a common heat-resistant dish when the cream boils. Reduce the fire to a minimum.
2. Stir ingredients until cheese is melted. After receiving desired consistency salt the sauce, season with pepper. Add mustard, stir until smooth.
3. Cook the dish for another 3 minutes, then take the first sample. If the dressing is not very spicy, you can add it with chili pepper (powdered).

Cheese sauce with tomato

• garlic - 4 cloves
• sour cream (25%) - 480 gr.
• dill (greens) - 35 gr.
• egg - 3 pcs.
• tomatoes - 2 pcs.
• hard cheese - 120-140 gr.
• onion- 1 PC.
• salt - to taste
• granulated sugar - 10 gr.
• drinking water - 40 ml.
• vinegar - 20 gr.
• chili pepper (optional) - 2-3 pinches

1. Peel the garlic cloves, mash with a press or blender. Grate the cheese, rinse and chop the dill. Rinse the tomatoes, cut them into cubes.
2. Prepare a solution from warm water, vinegar and sugar. Let the granules dissolve. Finely chop the onion, pour it with marinade. Leave for a third of an hour, then drain the liquid.
3. Boil the eggs, remove only the yolks and mash them with a fork. Add pickled onion, sour cream, chopped dill, garlic, grated cheese. Stir, leave for 10 minutes.
4. After this time, add tomato cubes and salt. You can season the sauce with chili. Leave the dressing in the refrigerator for 1 hour, then proceed to the tasting.

• Parmesan cheese - 45 gr.
• hard cheese (any, basic) - 230 gr.
• onion - 40 gr.
• olive oil - 30 ml.
• cognac - 50 ml.
• cream high fat(from 35%) - 480 ml.
• garlic cloves - 4 pcs.
• flour - 80 gr.
• butter - 120 gr.

1. First prepare the base. Melt the butter in a non-stick frying pan, add the sifted wheat flour(enter it in small parts). Stir the ingredients at the same time.
2. When the composition is slightly fried and acquires a golden hue, remove it from the burner. Chop the onion, pass it separately from other components in olive oil.
3. Then chop the garlic into slices, do not pass through the press. Stir in the onion, pour in the cognac. After 7 minutes of languishing at low power, add cream at room temperature.
4. Bring the contents of the dish to a slight boil, pour this mixture into the flour with butter. Put the sauce on the fire, heat it up and stir until it thickens.
5. After about 5-10 minutes, grate the cheese on the fine section of the grater, start pouring it into the pan in parts. Wait for the main component to melt, immediately turn off the burner.
6. After cooking cheese sauce with garlic must be insisted under the lid. Enough 10-15 minutes. After a predetermined time, pour the sauce into bowls or season spaghetti with it.

Cheese sauce "Assorted"

• Parmesan cheese - 30 gr.
• Emmental cheese - 35 gr.
• Romano cheese - 40 gr.
• cheese "Cheddar" - 30 gr.
• fat cream - 250 ml.

1. First, grate the cheddar and parmesan, combine them together. Pour the cream into a non-stick skillet, bring to a boil. Pour in cheese mix portions. Simmer the composition for 3 minutes, stirring.
2. Take care of Romano and Emmental, they also need to be grated and combined. Components are introduced in parts after the above time. Stir the sauce at the same time, continuing to simmer it on low power.
3. As it melts cheese platter the dressing will take on the density. Turn off the burner when you reach the desired consistency. Let the sauce cool down and enjoy.

Cheese sauce emphasizes the taste of the main dish and complements it with its own exquisite aroma. Traditionally, dressing is made on the basis of broth. However, butter, garlic, walnuts, mustard, tomatoes, and dill are often added to the composition.

Video: cheese sauce for nacho chips

Experienced housewives know that any dish becomes tastier if it is eaten with sauce. It plays the role of a kind of final chord. With such an addition, it becomes possible to better reveal all the subtleties and taste features main product. Cheese sauce is one of the most popular options. It harmonizes perfectly not only with meat, poultry or fish, but also with mushrooms, all kinds of seafood and even cereals. Of course, you can also buy it in the store. But it's best to learn how to make your own cheese sauce at home. By the way, this is not difficult at all.

Classic variant

To make the easiest cheese sauce at home, you need to use the following ingredients: 350 milliliters whole milk, 50 grams butter, a little salt, 30 grams of flour and 150 grams of cheese durum varieties.

The technology for preparing such a sauce is not particularly difficult. First you need to choose the right cheese. It should not delaminate, but melt well, so that a gentle homogeneous mass is obtained as a result. The whole process consists of several stages:

1. First you need to melt the butter. This can be done in a skillet or in a saucepan.
2. Then add flour, mix well and heat both products together for one minute.
3. With constant stirring, add warm milk and bring the mixture to a boil.
4. Add cheese. It is better to rub it first. It is necessary to wait for the complete dissolution of the product.
5. If necessary, the mass can be salted.

This homemade cheese sauce is made in minutes. The finished product is often used hot, pouring it over a dish in a plate. Cold it can be spread on fresh bread or serve in a bowl.

Cream cheese sauce

Using additional ingredients, you can give the usual cheese sauce a special taste and aroma. Everything will depend on what dish it is intended for. For example, it goes well with meat. cream cheese sauce. It is very easy to do at home.

To work, you will need the following components: 110 milliliters of milk, 200 grams of cheese, 5 grams of salt, 45 grams cornstarch, a pinch of ground black pepper and a few drops lemon juice.

To prepare this sauce you need:

1. Grind the cheese using a fine grater.
2. Combine it with starch, mix and leave in this position for 10 minutes.
3. Warm up the saucepan.
4. Transfer the cheese mass into it and pour it with milk.
5. Stirring constantly, add spices. Here the hostess is better to focus on her own taste. You should get a homogeneous paste-like mass.
6. Remove the saucepan from the heat and add to its contents Fresh Juice lemon.

The result is spicy sauce With original taste and amazing aroma.

Fast food sauce

In institutions fast food also sometimes prepare a sauce based on cheese. It goes well with French fries or nuggets, for example. A similar product can be made independently. In this case, the recipe for cheese sauce at home provides for the following components: 200 milliliters of cream (or milk), 60 grams of cheese (can be processed), salt, 10 grams of starch, pepper, dill and basil.

The work is carried out in stages:

1. Pour some of the milk into a saucepan and mash the cheese in it. This can be done with a regular fork. For this option, it is better, of course, to use processed cheese.
2. The rest of the milk is separately diluted with starch.
3. Put the saucepan on fire.
4. As the mixture heats up, gradually add the dissolved starch.
5. Cook until the mass thickens.
6. Add the basil one by one.
7. Sprinkle pepper and salt.

After that, the finished mass can be poured into a special gravy boat and served with freshly fried crispy potatoes.

Sauce in the microwave

To give the cheese sauce a special flavor, you can use ready-made products (ketchup and mayonnaise) for its preparation. This greatly simplifies the process itself. Besides, in this case You don't even need a stove. For example, consider how to make cheese sauce at home using a microwave.

Need following products: 150 grams processed cheese, a pinch of red pepper, a tablespoon of mayonnaise, one teaspoon each of ketchup and dried paprika.

Cooking rules:

1. Cut the cheese randomly and put it on a plate.
2. Add pepper, paprika to it and mix well.
3. Place the container in the microwave for 50-60 seconds at a power of 600 watts.
4. Alternately add mayonnaise and ketchup into the still hot mass.

After the sauce has cooled, it can be used for its intended purpose. This mixture is perfect for crispy chips, croutons, fried sausages or dumplings. No gravy boat is needed to serve. The chilled mass can be poured into an ordinary deep plate or bowl.

Sauce with garlic

Each dish has its own cheese sauce. For example, with red meat, a mixture with the addition of garlic or walnuts. Therefore, the hostess, who wants to show off her culinary skills to the guests, needs to know in advance how to prepare cheese sauce at home for such a dish. Before starting work on the table, you need to collect everything original components: heavy cream, parmesan cheese, salt, garlic and ground pepper.

To prepare this sauce you need:

1. Finely grate the cheese.
2. Squeeze the garlic through a press.
3. Mix both ingredients.
4. Add cream and put the mass on water bath. During operation, the mixture needs constant stirring.
5. As soon as the cheese is melted, you must immediately add pepper and a little salt.

Ready sauce is served hot with meat. So it will feel better unique taste and original flavor. Leftovers can be stored briefly in the refrigerator and reheated in a water bath or microwave if needed.

Sauce for pasta

Some people think that pasta should only be eaten with spicy tomato sauce. It's not like that at all. By the way, in the homeland of pasta, in Italy, locals are very fond of using all kinds of cheese sauces as an addition. It is believed that they, having great taste and pleasant creamy aroma perfect for pasta. To be convinced of this, you need to try to cook such a cheese sauce.

A step-by-step recipe at home requires the following mandatory components: 0.5 liters of milk, 400 grams of cheese, 2 cloves of garlic, 50 grams of butter, 5 grams of salt, 25 grams of flour, a quarter teaspoon of grated nutmeg and ground pepper.

Cooking technique:

1. Finely chop the garlic with a sharp knife.
2. Fry it over low heat for a couple of minutes with the addition of flour.
3. Add milk and heat the mixture until it starts to thicken.
4. Add the rest of the ingredients. Continue heating for at least another 2 minutes.
5. Remove the mixture from heat and add to it. After thorough mixing, it should completely melt.

The consistency of this sauce can be adjusted. If you want it to be thicker, then you need to take less flour than the specified amount, and more cheese.

Cream cheese sauce

With the addition of sour cream to the cheese sauce recipe, a product is obtained that can be used as fragrant filling for salads and various snacks. In addition, it also goes well with any meat or fish. Here you need to clearly understand how to make cheese sauce at home. First you need to stock up on the necessary ingredients.

For work, you must have: 40 grams of hard cheese, 2 eggs, 100 milliliters of sour cream, 20 grams of butter, 80 milliliters of cream and 60 grams of flour.

This sauce is prepared very quickly:

1. First you need to beat the eggs well and finely grate the cheese.
2. Mix it all with sour cream.
3. Beat the resulting mass until smooth.
4. Melt the butter in a water bath.
5. Add the cooked cheese mass to it.
6. Heat the mixture over low heat for no more than three minutes.

The resulting sauce can be immediately poured into any convenient container and served. Anyone who loves cheese very much can safely increase its amount in this recipe. Quality finished product will not suffer from it.

In the second and third recipes, I used a video not from the TK.

Cheese sauce is great option to complement the taste of the dish and make it softer and more tender. This sauce goes well with fish, poultry, meat, vegetables, mushrooms and pasta.
There are a lot of options for making cheese sauce, but I will tell you how to make it quickly and incredibly tasty.

Recipe for a simple cheese sauce for pasta with a photo

Kitchen utensils: board, grater, saucepan, whisk, gravy boat.

Ingredients

Step by step cooking

The sauce can be served hot with pasta, spaghetti, potatoes, vegetables, meat or fish. When cold, it can be spread on fried toast or serve with a variety of appetizers.

video recipe

On the video you can see all the stages of preparation in more detail.

Parmesan cheese sauce recipe

Cooking time: 10 minutes.
Servings: 2.
Calories per 100 g: 247 kcal.
Kitchen tools: board, grater, knife, saucepan, spatula, frying pan, gravy boat.

Ingredients

Step by step cooking

video recipe

I advise you to watch a detailed video recipe before you start cooking.

Bechamel sauce recipe

Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Servings: 3.
Calories per 100 g: 192 kcal.
Kitchen tools: board, grater, knife, sieve, saucepan, spatula, gravy boat.

Ingredients

Step by step cooking

1. We put peeled onions (70 g) in a saucepan, 1 Bay leaf and 280 ml of milk.
   
   
2. Bring the milk to a boil, and then turn it off and let it brew under the lid for 20 minutes.
3. While milk is infused, rub 70 g hard cheese on fine grater.
   
   
4. In a separate bowl, filter the milk through a sieve.
   
   
5. We spread 20-25 g of butter and 25 g of flour on a preheated pan. Stirring, fry the mass until golden brown.
   
   
6. Then add milk and cook the sauce until it thickens. During the cooking process, it must be constantly stirred so that the mass does not burn.
   
   
7. When the sauce becomes thick and homogeneous, add 4 g nutmeg and salt and pepper to taste.
   
   
8. Then we send cheese to the sauce, mix and cook for 5 minutes over low heat.
   
   
9. We give the finished sauce time to cool, and then serve with any meat dish or pasta.
   
   

video recipe

To repeat this recipe with particular accuracy, I recommend watching a video with step-by-step preparation.

Any dish will be much tastier if you add a properly prepared sauce to it, which will emphasize its aroma, as well as give the taste a special sophistication and completeness. You already guessed what in question? Well, of course, about the cheese sauce.

Cheese sauce for meat and vegetables - recipes

As you know, cheese can improve and complement the taste of any dish. This sauce is great for pasta, meat, casseroles, dumplings, dumplings, etc. Here are some cheese sauce recipes.

Classic cheese sauce

To prepare the cheese sauce, you will need the following ingredients:

• milk (150-200 ml.)
• vegetable/chicken broth (150-200 ml)
• flour (1 tbsp.)
• as well as cheese (100-150 gr.)
• and butter (50 gr.)

Cheese sauce is prepared as follows: Melt thirty grams of butter in a frying pan over low heat. Then you need to add flour, mix and warm for one minute. After the pan, remove from heat. The broth and milk should be slightly warmed up.

Next, you need to first pour milk into the pan with the butter - flour mixture, then the broth, while stirring continuously. Bring the sauce to a boil and cook for another three minutes until it thickens. Then you need to add pre-grated cheese to the sauce and mix until it is completely dissolved. Boil the sauce for another two minutes, then salt a little and add twenty grams of butter.

Cheese sauce with garlic and dill

This sauce is incredibly tasty with a pronounced garlic flavor.

To prepare it you will need:

• cheese (100 gr.)
• soy sauce(1 tablespoon)
• mayonnaise with sour cream equal proportions(200 gr.)
• garlic (2 cloves)
• dill (1 bunch)

Cheese sauce with garlic and dill is prepared as follows: First you need to grate the cheese. Then you need to put it in a deep bowl and add mayonnaise, soy sauce, garlic and herbs. Using an immersion blender, mix everything thoroughly until smooth and, voila, the sauce is ready!

Cheese sauce for meat dishes

For its preparation, the following components are needed:

• cream (100 gr.)
• parmesan cheese (100 gr.)
• mustard (2 tablespoons)
• as well as pepper and salt

The process for making this cheese sauce is as follows: it is necessary to pour the cream into a saucepan and put on fire. They should be brought to a boil, while stirring constantly. Then you need to add cheese, previously grated and mix well. Next, add mustard, salt and pepper.

Cheese sauce that perfectly complements the taste of vegetable dishes

In order to prepare this cheese sauce, you need the following ingredients:

• Bell pepper(2 pcs.)
• cheese (150 gr.)
• as well as sour cream (3 tablespoons)
• garlic (3 cloves)
• pepper
• curry
• mustard (2 tablespoons)

The preparation of this sauce should start with peppers. that need to be baked in the oven until the skin turns black. Next, the pepper must be transferred to the bag, tightly close it and leave for about twenty minutes. After a while, take it out and peel it from the peel and seeds. Ready Pepper and curry should be finely chopped and put in a blender. Add sour cream, cheese, mustard and garlic to them. Mix all the ingredients until smooth, the sauce is ready!

Universal seasoning for all occasions - cheese sauce. Even the most ordinary food with him will seem real culinary masterpiece. To prepare it at home, you should learn some simple tricks. We will talk about them below.
Recipe content:

There are some dishes that can not do without sauces. For example, barbecue. Usually store-bought tkemals, ketchup and others are bought for it. But sauces can not only be bought ready-made in the supermarket, but also cooked at home on your own. One of these is very popular cheese, which is very simple to prepare and it will not be difficult to reproduce it.

How to make delicious cheese sauce? According to the generally accepted canon, the basis of the sauce is french sauce bechamel, which is cooked from melted butter and sifted flour. Products languish over low heat until smooth. After that, warm milk is poured in a thin stream without ceasing to mix the mixture so that there are no lumps. The sauce is brought to a boil without stopping stirring, salt and add a pinch of nutmeg. Perfect bechamel smooth cream color and liquid consistency like sour cream. Cheese is added to the finished milk base.

Cheese varieties can be different: hard, semi-hard, creamy. The main thing is to choose those that melt well and do not delaminate during heating. Then the sauce will turn into a homogeneous viscous mass.

For a multifaceted taste, vegetable and meat broths, heavy cream, egg yolks, olive oil, toasted onion with garlic, starch. Enrich the taste with fragrant spices and herbs: black, white, red pepper, sweet paprika, curry, basil, thyme, rosemary, oregano, sage. Most exquisite variations made with lemon juice and dry white wine. They give a seductive acidity and make the consistency flowing and smooth. Spices and all kinds of additives are selected to your liking.

Cheese sauce is served exclusively hot. It will thicken as it cools, so keep this in mind when cooking. If it has had time to cool, then put the container in a water bath so that it melts. However, cheese sauce is good not only hot, but also cold. cold sauce spread on a slice of bread or served separately in bowls.

Cheese sauces are close friends with meat, poultry, fish, seafood, vegetables, mushrooms, pasta, cereals. However, in order to show off your culinary talent, you need to choose a personal cheese sauce for each dish. So, with red meat, cheese sauce with cream, garlic and walnuts. Hard cheeses perfectly harmonize with fish and seafood. Thick sauces co cream cheese combined with baked and stewed vegetables. For crispy fried potatoes perfect couple - pink sauce with creamy melted cheese, garlic and tomato sauce. And basil will decorate and enrich the taste of lasagna.

In fact, there are many recipes for homemade cheese sauces, which promises a lot of great recipes. culinary discoveries. Saturated, fragrant, plastic, velvety, ideal density, with creamy notes… All cheese sauces are obtained exclusively from quality cheeses.

How to make cheese sauce at home - a classic recipe

Lavash, pasta, french fries, dumplings, dumplings, vegetables, meat - however, it is difficult to remember a hot second course that homemade cheese sauce would not fit. The main thing is that the recipe is very simple, the products are affordable, it takes a minimum of time to cook.

• Calorie content per 100 g - 141 kcal.
• The number of servings is approximately 400 ml
• Cooking time - 15 minutes

Ingredients:

• Hard cheese - 350 g
• Pasteurized milk - 150 ml
• Wheat flour - 100 g
• Garlic - 3 cloves
• Butter - 50 g
• Salt - a pinch

And now the most important - classical process cooking.

Step by step cooking cheese sauce

1. Put the pan on the stove, heat it up and add the butter.
2. When it melts, gradually introduce the flour, while constantly stirring the contents.
3. Grate the cheese on a fine grater by hand or in a food processor.
4. Send the cheese chips and finely chopped garlic to the pan.
5. Mix well with a wooden spatula or whisk.
6. Add salt to completely melted cheese.
7. Remove the pan from the heat, transfer the homemade cheese sauce to a bowl and treat your family.

Recipes for cheese sauces are multifaceted. In the world of cooking, one of the most popular is sauce with the addition of lemon juice. He possesses piquant taste, amazing aroma and goes well with many dishes.

Ingredients:

• Cheese 45% fat (well melting) - 200 g
• Milk - 110 ml
• Cornstarch - 1.5 tbsp
• Lemon - ? PC.
• Salt - 0.5 tsp
• Black ground pepper - a pinch

Step by step cooking cream cheese sauce

1. Grate the cheese on a fine grater and combine with starch. Mix well and leave for 10 minutes.
2. Heat up the saucepan. Put cheese in it and pour in warm milk.
3. Season with salt and pepper. In the meantime, stir constantly. Bring the contents to a paste-like consistency.
4. When the cheese is melted and the contents turn into a homogeneous mass, remove the pan from the heat.
5. Add the lemon juice passed through the press, mix and pour the sauce into a gravy boat. Use it for its intended purpose.