Classic bread sauce

Name: Classic bread sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: ½ Essential Onion, finely chopped; 6 cloves; 2 bay leaves; 30 g Essential Salted Butter; 1 pint/s Essential British Free Range Whole Milk; 150 g Essential White Medium Sliced Bread (about 5 slices), crusts removed, bread roughly torn; ¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg; 3 tbsp Essential single cream

No roast dinner spread is complete without a dish of bread sauce. This classic recipe is infused with aromatic cloves and bay leaves.

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Vegetarian

Serves8
CourseAccompaniment
Prepare5 mins
Cook30 mins
Total time35 mins

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½ Essential Onion, finely chopped
6 cloves
2 bay leaves
30g Essential Salted Butter
1 pint/s Essential British Free Range Whole Milk
150g Essential White Medium Sliced Bread (about 5 slices), crusts removed, bread roughly torn
¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
3 tbsp Essential single cream

Heat the onion, cloves, bay leaves, butter and milk in a medium pan. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
Strain the milk and return it to the pan. Using a wooden spoon, stir in the bread and add the nutmeg. Simmer for 3–5 minutes until the bread has broken up.
Stir in the cream and heat through for 1 minute just before serving.

Cook’s tip

Get ahead: make the sauce up to the end of step 2, cover with clingfilm and keep in the fridge for up to 48 hours. Reheat over a gentle heat before continuing from step 3. To freeze: make to the end of step 2, cool and freeze for up to 1 month. Defrost thoroughly before reheating and continuing as above.

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