Classic Mornay Sauce

What’s even better than a classic French bechamel? When you add cheese to it and make a creamy mornay sauce instead. Get the staple recipe now on Foodal.

5 Ingredient Gruyere Cheese Sauce (Mornay Sauce) -

Make your own creamy and cheesy sauce at home with this easy-to-follow French mornay sauce recipe! This sauce pairs deliciously with vegetables, pasta, fish, and macaroni.

A recipe for creamy mornay sauce made with Gruyère cheese.

The modern-day Mornay sauce we enjoy is a béchamel sauce (a classic, French roux-based cream sauce, not to mention the last of the original, five French mother sauces to be invented). Shredded Gruyère and grated Parmesan cheeses get melted into the béchamel at the end. I like to refer to this easy-to-prepare "secondary sauce" ("a spin-off" of one of the originals) as: "the mother of all cheese sauces." That said, named after the Duke of Mornay (who lived during the late 16th and early 17th…

Learn to make a classic Mornay Sauce! This easy, creamy, cheesy white sauce can be served on its own, or added to other recipes.

How to prepare a delicious Mornay sauce.

Mornay sauce seems intimidating, but it’s a shockingly easy and relatively quick cheese sauce to make, and great to have in your cooking repertoire for many dishes.

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