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Sage Cream Sauce

Categories Easy Recipes, Main Course, Sauces

This sage cream sauce is an herby béchamel or cream sauce that goes great with pasta, meatballs or whatever you love cream sauce with.

It’s rich and delicious and fairly simple to make. It comes together in just about 15 minutes prep to finish.

I use ground sage in this recipe but you can also use rubbed sage if that is what you have or fresh sage too. If using fresh sage quadruple the amount called for, so instead of 1 teaspoon dried ground sage use 4 teaspoons or 1 heaping tablespoon chopped fresh sage.

We love this sauce over my Pork sausage meatballs RECIPE HERE with some sauteed kale and egg noodles which is what is pictured on this post.

What you need to make sage cream sauce:

makes roughly 24 ounces

  • 3/4 cup white onion – finely diced
  • 4 tablespoons salted butter
  • 4 tablespoons flour
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons salt – more to taste
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon ground sage
  • 2 1/2 cups milk of choice
  • 1/2 cup cream
  • 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce

Instructions

  1. In a sauce pan, add onion and butter and sauté until onion starts to soften.
  2. Sprinkle flour, salt, pepper and sage over the butter mixture and stir.
  3. Whisk in the milk. cream and Worcestershire sauce bring mixture to a boil.
  4. Boil mixture until it thickens.
  5. Taste and add more salt if desired.

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Sage Cream Sauce

A delicious sage infused béchamel sauce.
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Course: Main Course, Sauce
Cuisine: French, Sauce
Keyword: pasta, sauce
Servings: 3 cups

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup white onion – finely diced
  • 4 tablespoons salted butter
  • 4 tablespoons flour
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons salt – more to taste
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon ground sage
  • 2 1/2 cups milk of choice
  • 1/2 cup cream
  • 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce

Instructions

  • In a sauce pan, add onion and butter and sauté until onion starts to soften.
  • Sprinkle flour, salt, pepper and sage over the butter mixture and stir.
  • Whisk in the milk. cream and Worcestershire sauce bring mixture to a boil.
  • Boil mixture until it thickens.
  • Taste and add more salt if desired.