White sauce (for lasagne) Qs and recipes

elona

I do a Cheat's chicken lasagne which uses low fat condensed (or otherwise) chicken, mushroom or asparagus soup instead of cheese sauce - even my DDs like it.

Farmfoods do a good offer on soup at the moment.

cats_whiskers

Hi
I have also used plain yoghurt but added an egg and a teaspoon of ground cumin.

C1aire

...can you freeze it? I made lasagne last night, but made twice as much white sauce as needed - the overflow is in the freezer right now, but will it be ok to use on next week's moussaka?

squeaky

It should be OK. After all you can buy cod mornay frozen and that's just fish in white sauce topped by mash and a bit of cheese.

It might just need a good stir as you reheat it.

Bexstars

Hiya

Yes its fine to freeze. I make my 10 month old daughters food myself and often make her meals with white or cheese sauce and pop them in the freezer.

Not had moussaka for ages, yummy!!

Ice_Queen_112

Similar to some of the other posts but I use a carton of low fat cottage cheese, and whiz it up with enough skim milk to the consistency of regular cheese sauce, and then I use it as you would regular cheese sauce - layered throughout the lasagne.

AussieLass

I just use low fat milk & cheese when I make the sauce. I expect it's not *no Fat* but it would certainly be lower than if you used full cream milk & cheese.
I also do my sauce in the microwave and it turns out fab every time.

Irishmummyof2

I'm making a lasagne later tonight and i usually buy a jar but would love to try and make my own, could some one please tell me how..lol?
Thanks

Browntoa

about a third of a block of butter

put in saucepan and melt and then keep adding plain flour until it makes a thick paste

get a pint of milk and slowly add to the paste mixing it all the time to water down the paste, making sure not to leave lumps (can be any milk from skimmed to full fat)

heat on a low heat stirring all the time to stop it sticking/lumping (add a bay leaf for flavour if you have one) and after a few minutes it will thicken up into a sauce

worse case if it goes lumpy a hand blender will cure

sharon59

Irishmummyof2 wrote: »

I'm making a lasagne later tonight and i usually buy a jar but would love to try and make my own, could some one please tell me how..lol?
Thanks

I always do sauces and gravy in the microwave.
use big jug-melt butter/margerine then mix in enough flour gradually to make a paste then gradually whisk in milk-not quite a pint-put into microwave heat 2mins then good whisk,repeat minute at time as it thickens.whisking each time stops it going lumpy.
hope this is useful! enjoy your lasagne!!!