Basic Cream Sauce

Name: Basic Cream Sauce
Yield: Makes 2 cups
Cuisine: Ukraine
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon salt; 1 cup Rich Ukrainian Chicken Broth, vegetable broth, or water; ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 2 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour; 2 tablespoons unsalted butter; 1 cup milk or light cream

Smetankova pidlyva

Preparation info

Makes
2
cups

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The New Ukrainian Cookbook

By Annette Ogrodnik Corona

Published 2020

About

This basic cream sauce is used often in Ukrainian cookery and is a favorite standby for many meat, vegetable, and grain dishes.

Ingredients

2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour
1

Europe
Ukraine
Sauce
Eastern Europe

Method

Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the flour making a paste (roux) and continue stirring for 2 minutes (do not let brown). Slowly add the milk and chicken broth and stir steadily over medium heat until the mixture boils and starts to thicken. Reduce the heat to low and continue cooking another 3 minutes. Stir in the salt and black pepper. Serve as is or use as a base