White Sauce with Parsley

A great sauce to go with your ham. The secret to the success of this sauce: stir, stir, stir, and stir!

based on 197 reviews

Ingredients for 4

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Ingredients
13	tablespoons	fresh parsley
1 1/2	tablespoon	butter
2 1/4	tablespoons	plain flour
1/4	teaspoon	salt
1/4	teaspoon	nutmeg, grated
1/8	teaspoon	ground black pepper
10	fl. ozs	milk

Salt content: 0.5% (by weight, not counting salt in other ingredients)

Please do not use dried parsley as it has the taste of newspaper. Parsley particularly doesn't like drying and tastes horrible if dried. If you don't have fresh parsley, get on your skates and buy some.

Method

See step-by-step instructions below.

Great with a roasted ham!

Step-by-Step Instructions

	Put the butter into a saucepan and heat it up until the butter has melted.
	Now slowly add the flour. Whilst adding the flour, stir with a fork to mix the butter and the flour. You have to be quick here and make sure that there are no lumps forming - not a problem if you keep stirring.
	Keep stirring with a fork until all the flour has absorbed the butter. Continue stirring whilst heating the saucepan until the mixture is smooth and there are no lumps or white bits of flour.
	Now slowly add the milk whilst still stirring. Each time you add a bit of milk, wait for the sauce to come to a boil. You will feel the sauce thickening every time it reaches a boil. Slowly add milk, bring to boil, etc. until you have added all the milk.
	The result is a creamy, smooth and firm sauce base.
	Now we add a pinch of salt ...
	... and the pepper. Then add some freshly grated nutmeg.
	Add the fresh, chopped parsley to the sauce and stir. Taste the sauce and add salt / pepper / nutmeg to your taste.
	You can let the sauce cool down and re-heat it, so you don't have to prepare it at the same time the rest of your meal needs all the attention. Simply stir whilst re-heating.

10	delicious and very easy to make
10	Please put amount of milk in IS terms - how many ounces or cups. My measuring cup doesn't do mls. 300 ml = approximately 1.25 cups
10	Excellent
10	Lovely and easy to make top marks xxxxxxx
10	Just like my Granny's recipe, sitting around her little cottage kitchen.
10	Very good
9	Excellent recipe and tasty
10	Simple and hopefully easy for a 1st timer!!!
8	tres bon
10	great
9	double the quantity and freeze the extra for the next meal
10	Thank you, very clear instuction
10	Fantastic thank you
10	in a short period prepare fantastic sauce
10	it is a fast making food
10	Great
6	simlpe and easy to follow. THANK YOU.
10	Perfect and easy to follow white sauce recipe ...thank you
10	Good thanks
9	Brilliant thanks
10	great, Thanks
10	Very helpful thankyou
10	Great help!! Thanks! I can cook home made sauce!! Wow!
7	40 grams of parsley is way too much,15would have done the job.
10	Quick and easy to make . No fuss.great when you have all the simple ingredients at hand and growing your own parsley.
10	Fantastic - love being able to change number of servings on the site.
10	this was great, no more packet sauce
10	Add mace - great!
10	my mother used to make this to serve over cooked halibut and it was to die for!
10	Very good and really easy to understand I am going to try this thank you. Most helpful :)
10	Perfect parsley sauce, thankyou!!
10	Great! My Dad is now a widower and said he never watched Mum make Parsley Sauce for Corned Beef! This will really help him.
10	Easy to use!
10	Brilliant page-easy to follow:)
10	Thank you. Xmas dinner was sorted out. Sauce was really nice. Will use full cream milk next time. Skimmed was a bit thin.
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10	Brilliant Thanks
10	Excellent :)
10	Thank you which flower do i use self raising or plain flower
10	a widower cooking for the first time . thanks ,wish I had paid more attention whilst my wife was alive, this realy helps.
9	I'll try this some day.
10	Some knob head has actually commented on your grammar.
10	nice it was good to cook it
4	Stop using the word whilst. Get out of the Dark Ages. The word id while.
10	great thanks was only looking for ideas for a meal and found this just made the sauce easy peasy now off to find sum food to go with it!!! lol
10	Perfect thank you
10	very good"
10	simple instuctions and the photos are a real help,well done cheers
10	Thanks for this is really good recipy
10	excellent recipe simple to follow and very tasty..