Cheddar Cheese Sauce

Cheddar cheese sauce is an easy, creamy, indispensable, and versatile go-to item in your repertoire, whether destined for fries, nachos, tater tots, broccoli, burgers, chili, cauliflower, baked potatoes, pasta…get the picture? Here’s how to make it.

Adapted from Spike Mendelsohn | The Good Stuff Cookbook | Wiley, 2010

This Cheddar cheese sauce creates a spectacularly cheese sauce so stupendously rich and gooey and versatile you’ll want to slather it onto everything by the ladleful. And when we say everything, we mean everything, including the ridiculously indulgent Uncle D’s Chili and Cheddar Burger. Or a classic Uncle D’s Chili. Or a baked potato. Or a roasted sweet potato. Or fries. Or broccoli. Or macaroni. Or nachos. Or cauliflower. Or tater tots. Or, well, use your imagination. Any which way, this recipe is a keeper. As the author says, “Warm, oozing cheese is never a bad idea.” Amen to that.–Renee Schettler Rossi

Cheddar Cheese Sauce

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• Makes just shy of 2 cups

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Ingredients

• 1 cup whole milk
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 oz)
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 cup grated Cheddar cheese
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cayenne or store-bought or homemade hot sauce, to taste
• Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Directions

• 1. Pour the milk in a large saucepan, place it over medium heat, and let it warm until you see small bubbles forming along the edge of the pan.
• 2. Meanwhile, in another saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter.
• 3. Sprinkle the flour over the bubbling butter and stir constantly until a thick paste, or roux, forms, 1 to 2 minutes. (It may become quite thick and this is okay. And if it doesn’t become crazy thick, that’s okay, too.)
• 4. Constantly whisking, slowly pour the warm milk into the flour and butter mixture in a steady stream. Continue cooking and whisking almost constantly until the mixture thickens considerably, about 5 minutes. It should be thick but still spreadable and perhaps even pourable.
• 5. Add the cheese and whisk constantly until it completely melts. Season with the cayenne or hot sauce and salt and pepper to taste. If you’re the fussy sort, you can strain the sauce through a sieve to remove any lumps before serving. The sauce will thicken even more upon cooling. Originally published June 17, 2010.

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