Aromatic (slightly) sweet white sauce
This sauce is not particularly sweet but very aromatic, so will be good with savoury dishes as well as sweet ones. The flavour can be easily varied by varying proportions (and mix) of spices.
Ingredients
- 30 g butter
- 20 g flour
- 500 ml milk or almond milk (unsweetened), lukewarm
- 1 tbsp caster sugar
- 1 vanilla pod
- 2 knobs fresh ginger
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- pinch of nutmeg
- 6 cloves
- 1 star anis
- pinch of ground cardamom
- finely grated zest of ½ orange
Method
- Melt butter in saucepan over medium heat, add flour while stirring constantly, then (almond) milk and all spices except grated orange zest. Keep stirring and while constantly stirring, gently boil the mixture until it has the consistency of a thick custard and coats the back of a spoon. Take off the heat, add orange zest and pass mixture through a fine-meshed sieve. Serve lukewarm or cold.