Low Fat Basic Sauce (without Butter)

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup chicken stock (or vegetable stock)
• 3 tablespoons cornflour
• 1/2 cup skim evaporated milk (or soy milk)
• 1/4-1/2 cup chicken stock, extra
• onion powder, to taste
• 1 teaspoon dried chives
• 1 teaspoon dried parsley
• salt & pepper, to taste

Recipe

• 1 pour stock into a small saucepan and heat; once hot add cornflour and stir constantly to cook flour, it will be very thick, yellowy & clear.
• 2 off stove add the milk, very slowly stirring until smooth; this is where i need the blender to get the lumps out.
• 3 put back on medium heat, add the extra stock and continue stirring until it thickens; add the onion powder, herbs, pepper and salt.
• 4 you may need more stock or skim milk, when i made this tonight, on heating it up after it had cooled it became thicker and needed to be thinned a little.