Gluten Free Bread Sauce

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Bread sauce provides an aromatic and creamy accompaniment to the Traditional Christmas roast and is easily adapted for gluten free diets, by using Genius bread

  • Serving: Serves six
  • Preparation time: 10 minutes
  • Cooking time: 12 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 small onion, cut across into halves
  • whole cloves
  • 500ml/¾ pint of whole milk
  • 2 bay leaves
  • plenty of fresh black pepper (4 grinds)
  • a pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
  • ½ tsp of salt
  • 4 medium slices of White Genius Gluten Free Bread, whizzed into fine breadcrumbs
  • 30g/1oz butter

Method

  1. Stud the cut side of the onion halves with the cloves and place, cloves down in a medium, heavy bottomed pan.
  2. Place the bay leaves, nutmeg, four grinds of black pepper and salt with the milk into the pan and slowly bring the milk to a gentle simmer. Simmer for five minutes then remove from the heat and leave the ingredients to infuse until the milk is cool. Strain the flavoured milk, through a sieve into a clean pan.
  3. Gently reheat the milk to a simmer and stir in the breadcrumbs. Stir slowly over a low heat until the breadcrumbs are soft and swollen and have thickened the sauce.
  4. The sauce should be creamy in consistency, so add a splash more milk if it is too thick.
  5. Just before serving, stir in the butter, taste and season with more salt and freshly ground pepper, as necessary.