Brown bread sauce recipe

Brown bread sauce

Give yourself a generous helping of this delicious bread sauce recipe using fresh brown breadcrumbs. It gives it a lovely nutty flavour and is equally as good as the classic version.

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  • Serves 8
  • 20 mins to cook, plus 1 hr infusing
  • 200 calories / serving

Ingredients

  • 1 small onion, halved
  • 6 cloves
  • 500ml milk
  • 6 black peppercorns
  • 2 fresh bay leaves
  • 100g fresh white breadcrumbs
  • 50g (2oz) fresh brown breadcrumbs
  • 100ml (3 1/2fl oz) double cream
  • 50g butter
  • nutmeg, freshly grated

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Each serving contains

Energy
835kJ 200.0kcal
10%
Fat
14g
medium20%
Saturates
8g
high41%
Salt
0.4g
medium7%
Sugars
4g
low5%

of the Reference intake

Carbohydrate 16.5gProtein 4.6gFibre 1.3g

Method

  1. Stud the onion halves with the cloves. Put them in a saucepan with the milk, peppercorns and bay leaves. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and set aside to infuse for an hour or so.
  2. Strain the milk into a pan and discard the onion, peppercorns and bay leaves. Add the breadcrumbs and the cream and simmer over a low heat for 5 minutes or until thickened.
  3. Just before serving, stir in the butter, nutmeg and a little seasoning to taste.

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