Simple food - Potatoes With White Sauce (Photos)

Someone asked how to make this dish the other day after I said it would be on our table today. Here it is - a very simple, very direct, very easy to make starch side.

Potatoes with White Sauce

Need to serve six or eight:

Red potatoes 2 pounds
Salt 1 Tablespoon
Butter 3 Tablespoons
AP Flour 3 Tablespoons
Milk 2 cups

For any boiled potato dish, I prefer red potatoes.



Peeled



Cut into 1 or 2 inch pieces and boil in salted water until fork tender.







Then held in hot water (removed from heat to hold below cooking temperature) until ready to serve.

These are served with a béchamel sauce.

In a sauce pan, melt three Tablespoons of butter.



Then add three Tablespoons of AP flour.



Cook the flour over medium high heat for about four minutes, being careful to not brown the flour. You want to cook it, but not brown it.



Add a half teaspoon of salt



Then two cups of milk to the cooked flour, bring to a low boil and cook with constant stirring until the sauce thickens. With the amount of flour added, this will make a fairly thick sauce, which was my intent.







When the sauce has thickened, drain the potatoes,





and add the sauce



Nice



Add black pepper - I like a lot



Done





Nice mild flavor, good mouth feel. Enjoyable side dish to BBQ chicken, meatloaf, fried chicken, country fried steak or whatever.

You can add sharp cheddar and other melting cheese (Gouda, Swiss, Edam) to the béchamel when the milk is added and give the potatoes a good cheese sauce if you like them that way.

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