Description
A creamy cheddar cheese sauce perfect for serving over toast or ciabatta bread.
Ingredients
Scale
- ¼ cup butter
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- ¼ teaspoon dry mustard
- ¼ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 2 drops hot sauce
- 1 cup milk
- ¾ cup beer
- 16 ounces block Cheddar cheese (cubed)
Instructions
- Melt 1/4 cup of butter in saucepan over low heat. Slowly add in the flour, salt, pepper, mustard, Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce.
- Keep cooking and stirring until smooth and free of bubbles. This takes about 5 minutes or so. Remove from heat.
- Slowly stir in milk and return to heat, stirring occasionally until it comes to a boil.
- Slowly pour in the beer, cooking for an additional minute.
- Add cheddar cheese cubes to the mixture, slowly, until fully incorporated, then remove from heat.
- Serve over toast or Ciabatta bread.
Notes
- This sauce can be used for mac and cheese or as a dip.
- Adjust the spice level by varying the amount of hot sauce.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Sauce
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/2 cup
- Calories: 300
- Sugar: 2g
- Sodium: 600mg
- Fat: 24g
- Saturated Fat: 15g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 16g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 12g
- Cholesterol: 70mg