How To Make An Easy Cheese Sauce That Goes Great With Mac n Cheese, Broccoli, and More

My recipe for cheese sauce is incredibly tasty and easy to make. I love mac n cheese, broccoli and cheese, asparagus and cheese...and so many more dishes I can't list them all. My recipe for cheese sauce can be changed and tweaked easily to use different cheeses, different milk, and more to have a variety of tastes. I usually just use good old 2% milk but sometimes I use buttermilk or canned cream. Typically cheddar is my favorite cheese but I've used edam, jack, American, and other flavors of cheese. This recipe is a great base for mixing flavors. All you need is butter, flour, milk, cheese, and salt/pepper.

Step One: Melt about 3 teaspoons of butter in a skillet.

Step Two: When the butter is bubbling add 3 tablespoons of flour and mix it into the butter.

Step Three: After the butter and flour are combined and bubbling add 2 cups of milk, a little at a time. Let the mixture thicken a bit before you add more milk.

Step Four: One the sauce is as thick as you'd like it (not too runny, not too clumpy) add a handful of shredded cheese. Again, you can use whatever kind you like. Cheddar is the cheese I always have on hand at home.

Step Five: Salt and pepper the mixture to your own personal taste.

Step Six: Pour whatever you are eating it with in the pan with the sauce. I used asparagus tonight. The sauce sticks to the pan so pouring your noodles, vegetables, etc. allows the sauce to stick to them and you don't lose as much cheese sauce to sticking of the pan.

Like I said, this is a great sauce that you can play around with for different flavors. The first two steps are also the beginnings of gravy. Take the butter and flour and instead of adding milk, add beef or chicken stock to get gravy. It's amazing how a little butter and flour can make so many sauces!

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