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   Balsamella - Italian White Sauce

 

4 tablespoons butter

½ cup flour

2¼ cups milk

salt

1 oz parmigiano reggiano, freshly grated (use quality cheese)

pinch of nutmeg

        

1.    Place butter in a saucepan and turn the heat to low. When the butter is melted, remove the saucepan from the stove.

2.    Sift the flour into the butter a little at a time, stirring continuously to combine them.

3.    Whisk in the milk a little at a time.

4.    Put the saucepan back on the stove and slowly stir with a wooden spoon, until the sauce starts boiling and becomes thicker.

5.    Turn heat off. Add salt, and stir in the grated parmigiano cheese and pinch of nutmeg.