christmas sauces

Learn how to make cheese sauce with this easy recipe. Great for cauliflower cheese, fish pies, mac and cheese and pasta.

Each serving provides 216 kcal, 9g protein, 9g carbohydrates (of which 4.5g sugars), 16g fat (of which 10g saturates), 0g fibre and 0.8g salt.

Cheese Sauce

butter

flour

400–500 milliliters/14–18fl oz milk

80 grams/3 ounces cheese, grated (e.g. mature cheddar, gruyère)

salt and white pepper

Cheese sauce

Learn how to make a white sauce with this video technique.

How to make white sauce

Making your own cranberry sauce is really easy, and you can do it a few days in advance. Plus, this one calls for only three ingredients

Really simple cranberry sauce

light muscovado sugar

milliliters orange juice,fresh

pack cranberries

Tip 100g light muscovado sugar and 100ml orange juice into a <a href="https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/five-best-saucepans">pan</a>, then bring to the boil.

Stir in 250g fresh or frozen cranberries, then simmer until tender but still holding their shape – this will take about 5 mins if using frozen cranberries or 8-10 mins if using fresh.

The sauce will thicken as it cools. Will keep in the fridge for 1 week. On the day, bring to room temperature before serving.

A jar of salted caramel sauce makes a great Christmas present. This is so easy - don't tell anyone. If you don’t want to include the rum, just leave it out. It still tastes amazing.

You will need to have sterilised jars to keep the caramel in. This recipe makes about 2 jam jars of caramel.

Salted caramel sauce

tin ready-made condensed milk caramel

unsalted butter

sea salt

tbsp rum (optional)

Mint grows so freely that once you know the trick you never need buy mint sauce again.

Real mint sauce

mint

salt

water

tbsp white wine vinegar

level tbsp caster sugar

Serve this warm chocolate sauce over vanilla ice cream, meringues or even as a chocolate fondue.

Easy chocolate sauce

200 grams/7 ounces good-quality dark chocolate, minimum 70 per cent cocoa solids, chopped

175 milliliters/6fl oz milk

tbsp double cream

grams/1¼oz caster sugar

grams/1¼oz butter,

An easy parsley sauce recipe to accompany fish or boiled ham. It's a classic British comfort food, quite mild and creamy, but when made with really fresh parsley it will taste amazing.

Parsley sauce

grams/2 butter

grams/2 flour

500 milliliters/17fl oz milk

tbsp finely chopped parsley

An easy mushroom sauce is a great recipe to have in your repertoire because it's so versatile, see the tips section below for ideas. 

Creamy mushroom sauce

olive oil

brown onion, finely chopped

garlic,

225 grams/8 ounces button mushrooms, wiped and sliced

150 milliliters/5fl oz dry white wine

150 milliliters/5fl oz crème fraîche

tbsp parsley

salt and black pepper

Classic bread sauce is a British classic perfect with any white meat, but especially Christmas turkey!

It can easily be made ahead of time too, win-win.

Easy bread sauce

onion,

cloves

bay leaf

black peppercorns

570 milliliters/1 pint full-fat milk

breadcrumbs

grams/1½oz butter

This crowd-pleasing bread sauce recipe by Nigella Lawson is an easy extra for Christmas Day and is just as good served cold with leftovers. The recipe appears in Nigella's book Feast, published by Chatto & Windus.

Nigella's bread sauce

white bread

litre/2 pints full-fat milk

bay leaves

white peppercorns

blades fresh mace mace

tsp salt

grams/1 butter

tbsp double cream, optional

nutmeg,

Make your Christmas turkey gravy a thing of beauty with this simple recipe. Prepare steps 1-2 in advance to make life easier on the day.

Turkey gravy

turkey giblets

thyme

½ onion, sliced

turkey

salt and pepper

Follow this step-by-step recipe for how to make one of the French classics, béarnaise sauce. 

Béarnaise sauce

shallots, chopped

tbsp chopped fresh tarragon, plus 2 tbsp whole tarragon leaves

lemon juice

Show someone you really love them by making homemade hollandaise sauce with Mary Berry's foolproof technique. Then serve on top of eggs or asparagus. 

Hollandaise sauce

peppercorns

125 grams/4 ounces butter, melted

lemon juice, salt and pepper

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Turkey gravy

Béarnaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce

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