Our traditional bread sauce recipe is the perfect creamy bread sauce ingredients to your roast dinner. Simmer the milk, butter, onion, cloves, peppercorns, garlic and herbs in a pan for 20 mins.

Strain and return the liquid to the pan. Add the breadcrumbs and simmer for 3-4 mins. Stir in the cream or mascarpone. Can be made up to 3 days in advance and heated up on the hob or microwave on Medium for 3 mins. This website is published by Immediate Media Company Limited under licence from BBC Studios Distribution. What should you be cooking this month? The real thing is beautifully creamy and the perfect accompaniment to chicken or turkey.

I happen to like a pronounced flavour of clove. If you don’t like them at all, you can use some freshly grated nutmeg instead. Add some salt then bring everything up to boiling point. Take off the heat, cover the pan and leave in a warm place for the milk to infuse for two hours or more.

When you’re ready to make the sauce, remove the onion, bay leaf and peppercorns and keep them on one side. Now replace the clove-studded onion, the bay leaf and the peppercorns and again leave the pan in a warm place until the sauce is needed. Just before serving, remove the onion and spices. Reheat gently then beat in the remaining butter and the cream and taste to check the seasoning. Pour into a warm serving jug. Can Delia’s Traditional Bread Sauce recipe be frozen?