noun
- a white sauce made from butter, flour, and milk or cream, used as a base for other sauces or in cooking
Usage: culinary
Examples
- The chef prepared a creamy bechamel sauce for the lasagna.
- Bechamel is one of the five mother sauces in French cuisine.
- She whisked the bechamel constantly to prevent lumps from forming.
- The recipe calls for bechamel to bind the ingredients together.
- A good bechamel should be smooth and velvety in texture.
- The cooking instructor demonstrated how to make bechamel from scratch.