Bread sauce

Bread sauce

A traditional Christmas sauce to serve with your roast

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 25 mins

Method

  1. Simmer the milk, butter, onion, cloves, peppercorns, garlic and herbs in a pan for 20 mins. Strain and return the liquid to the pan. Add the breadcrumbs and simmer for 3-4 mins. Stir in the cream or mascarpone. Add nutmeg, season and serve. Can be made up to 3 days in advance and heated up on the hob or microwave on Medium for 3 mins.

Per serving

141 kcalories, protein 4.0g, carbohydrate 14.0g, fat 5.0 g, saturated fat 5.0g, fibre 0.0g, salt 0.43 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2005.

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  • 22 April 2008

    jessc rated and commented on this recipe

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    Delicious

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  • 28 December 2008

    Elaine rated and commented on this recipe

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    Made this two night before Xmas, stuck it in the fridge then simply reheated for Xmas lunch. Very simple but really delicious.

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    30 December 2008

    Ben rated and commented on this recipe

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    Tastes great. But a word of warning, this makes far too much for a four person dinner. I would say it serves at least 25

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  • 13 December 2009

    Donna D rated and commented on this recipe

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    Great recipe! I halved the ingredients & used creme fraiche instead of the cream. Plenty for 3-4 greedy guzzlers!! Will be using this recipe when I cook for my bosses on Christmas Day!

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  • 04 April 2010

    Erin rated and commented on this recipe

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    I've made this bread sauce time and time again and it never fails, very easy and tasty to match! I usually only cook for 2 of us though so I have to halve the quantities and even then it makes enough to serve about 8 people, but it's great spread on beef sandwiches afterwards with a bit of horseradish so it never goes to waste.

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  • 02 January 2011

    NaiHeff rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This recipe does make huge quantity but is lovely. Had a gorgeous free range goose as our Christmas bird and worked hard to do a really good spread with all the trimmings. The verdict? Everyone said the bread sauce was the nicest part of the meal!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 25 mins

Ingredients

  • 600.0ml milk
  • 50.0g butter
  • 1 onion , chopped
  • 6 cloves
  • 6 peppercorns
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 3 thyme sprigs
  • 100.0g white breadcrumbs
  • 4.0 tbsp single cream or mascarpone
  • pinch nutmeg , freshly grated
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Per serving

141 kcalories, protein 4.0g, carbohydrate 14.0g, fat 5.0 g, saturated fat 5.0g, fibre 0.0g, salt 0.43 g

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