Bread sauce
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Don't buy ready-made bread sauce: it's quick and easy to make your own at home - and it tastes so much better. Perfect for your Christmas Day dinner!
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Prep time: 5 mins
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Cooking time: 30 mins
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Total time: 35 mins
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Serves: 6-8
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Skill level: Easy peasy
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Costs: Cheap as chips
Ingredients
Use leftover bread to make breadcrumbs: just whizz four slices of day-old bread in a processor.
- 1 small red onion
- 6 cloves
- 2 bay leaves
- 400ml (14fl oz) milk
- 100g (4oz) fresh white breadcrumbs
- 25g (1oz) butter
- 100ml (3½ fl oz) double cream
Method
- Stud the onion with the cloves and put in a saucepan along with the bay leaves and milk.
- Bring to the boil and simmer for 15 mins. Leave for 10 mins and then strain the milk into a bowl, removing the onion and bay leaves.
- Transfer the milk to a pan, add the breadcrumbs and stir in the butter and double cream. Season and simmer for 5 mins until thickened.
- Pour into a bowl and top with onion and bay leaves.
Nutritional information
Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.
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