Butter Sauce for Pasta, Seafood, Etc.
- Ready In:
- 12mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
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8 oz. dry weight noodles
- Serves:
- 6
ingredients
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Necessary Ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1⁄2 cup margarine
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 3 -4 tablespoons evaporated milk
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Seasoning Ingredients
- 1⁄8 - 1⁄4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 3 pinches cayenne
- 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 tablespoons parmesan cheese
directions
- Let both butter and margarine soften.
- Using hand mixer, blend butter and margarine together with flour until well incorporated.(I generally do this blending in a glass bowl which I can then place on top of a pan of simmering water for the next steps).
- Melt the butter/flour mixture in a double boiler over med. low heat(or glass bowl over simmering pan) until just melted.
- As butter/flour mixture is melting, add it the evaporated milk, garlic powder, cayenne, salt and pepper. All of these ingredients are according to your taste - you can use real garlic and heavy cream, white pepper, whatever you prefer or have on hand. You can add up to 4 tablespoons of evaporated milk without making the sauce too thin. Lastly, add in as much paremsan cheese as you would like, my preference is about 2 tablespoons.
- Pour over noodles or whatever and enjoy!
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Reviews
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this was a nice recipe. I omitted the cayenne pepper because I am not big on heat spice, and I omitted the milk because my family was recovering from a stomach bug and I was trying to find a light sauce for pasta. Admittedly a butter sauce may not have been as "light" as I thought. One lady said the margarine taste was too much so I used 3/4 cp butter and 1/4 cp margarine. I also added dried green onions, not a lot, and it was a tasty, tasty sauce. Next time I am going to only use 3/4 cp butter because we ended up with too much sauce, and one day I may be brave enough for the cayenne pepper.
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I gave this 3 stars. I made this for the PAC Spring 2008. I served this sauce over pasta. The sauce was to thin for me so I thickened it. My future hubby loved this sauce. I liked it I thought it had a bit much more margarine taste then I would have liked. I loved the seasoning combo. My 5 yrs old newphew & 6 yrs old niece did not like it. Overall I will make this again with a few tweaks. Thanks so much for posting a good recipe. Christine (internetnut)
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This is absolutely wonderful! I didn't go through the steps of putting the sauce together as the recipe states, I prepared it as if i were making a regular white sauce in a saucepan. Same results with less work. Thanks, Reality. I will be using this in place of my Alfreda Sauce recipe from now on. ~Darlene~
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