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Cheese sauce recipes

Cheese sauce
by The BBC Food team

Learn how to make cheese sauce with this easy recipe. Great for cauliflower cheese, fish pies, mac and cheese and cheesy pastas. Feel free to experiment with different cheeses – cheddar is the classic but as long as they melt easily it will work.

Each serving provides 216 kcal, 9g protein, 9g carbohydrates (of which 4.5g sugars), 16g fat (of which 10g saturates), 0g fibre and 0.8g salt.

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