This is the absolutely best Cream Sauce you will ever have.
Earlier this week I posted a recipe for Cream Chip Beef. In hindsight, I should have posted the versatility of my amazing cream sauce. It's very inexpensive and is ready in about five minutes. This is what I'll do today.
You can use it with a variety of meals, the cheese of your choice optional, and pour it over meals such as:
- Steamed or boiled veggies, such broccoli, aspargus, cauliflower, and with these, add your favorite cheese.
- baked chicken for an old fashioned Southern meal if you don't mind getting your hands messy.
- Lumps of crabmeat dish, with or without mushrooms. Note: Imitation crabmeat is just as good and a lot cheaper.
- Pasta meals. Cheese and frozen peas or broccoli optional.
My mother used flour to make the sauce, but I improved it by substituting pancake mix one day when I was out of flour. It's very rich and filling, and perfect on many dishes.
Required utensils:
You must have a spatula, and preferably a teflon frying pan. You'll need to work fast. Takes less than five minutes to make and is very inexpensive.
Ingredients:
Whole Milk, at least a cup. Have it next to the stove and ready to pour.
A stick of real butter, but you'll only need a third of this.
1/3 of Pancake Mix Complete, (dry). I use Aunt Jemimah's Complete or Hungry Jack Complete. Dont' worry, the sauce won't taste a thing like pancakes.
Put 1/3 stick of butter in pan. Your fire light is high.
As soon as butter starts to bubble, slowly add pancake and flour mix, while smashing or grinding it into a smooth consistency. Work fast or it will burn.
Turn down fire and add milk slowly, and keep on smashing and grinding with the spatula. This is so your cream will be smooth. Although I said use about a cup of milk, it might be a little more or less depending on how thick or thin you want your sauce.
Depending on the dish you'll use it on, you can add various spices.
For example, on a juicey fried or grilled steak as seen above, add a touch of taragon spice, chopped shallot onion, a dash of dry white wine, and salt n' pepper to taste.
Wah-lah!
Your man will swear you can do more than make noise in the kitchen. And you know what? He's right.
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