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Bread sauce
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Bread sauce

11 ingredients 30 min + 30 min Makes 1 litre openrecipes
Bread sauce

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.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

446
Calories
13g
Protein
27g
Fat
40g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 9 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
White Bread 1 slice (30g) white 79
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Nutmeg 1 tsp ground (2.2g) 12
Clove 1 tsp ground (2g) 7
Bay Leaf 1 leaf (0.6g) 2
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 day-old loaf unsliced white bread
  • 1 litre/2 pints full-fat milk
  • 1 onion
  • 4 cloves
  • 2 fresh bay leaves
  • 1 tsp white peppercorns
  • 2 blades fresh macemace
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 30g/1oz butter
  • 2 tbsp double cream
  • 1 fresh nutmeg

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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