Bread Sauce
This classic, traditional recipe for Bread Sauce is the perfect accompaniment for your Christmas or Thanksgiving turkey. Ready in just 30 minutes it can also be made a couple of days ahead or even frozen in advance!
Servings: 8 servings
Ingredients
- 600 ml whole milk
- 100 g white breadcrumbs
- 1 onion
- 1 garlic clove
- 6 whole cloves
- 1 tsp whole peppercorns
- 1 tsp grated nutmeg
- 2 bay leaves
- 50 g butter
Instructions
- Peel and quarter the onion and peel and half the garlic.
- Add the milk to a saucepan with the onion, garlic, cloves, peppercorns, nutmeg and bay leaves.
- Simmer gently for 15 minutes and allow to cool so the flavours infuse.
- Sieve the milk into another pan and discard the bits.
- Warm through again and add the breadcrumbs, season well and simmer for a few minutes until it starts to thicken, stir through the butter.
- Decant into a bowl and grate over a little more nutmeg.
Notes
Make up to 2 days ahead and just gently warm it through in a saucepan just before serving - you might want to add a little more milk to thin it, and a little more butter and nutmeg to gussy it up just before serving. You can also freeze it, adding a little more butter, milk or even some cream to bring it back to life as you re-heat it.