white sauce
noun
: a sauce consisting essentially of a roux with milk, cream, or stock and seasoning
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To make the traditional white sauce, cut plain yogurt with mayonnaise and lemon juice, and fleck it with garlic.
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Sam Sifton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
The hotel uses halved roasted Roma tomatoes to prevent the juice from ruining the flavor and color of the creamy white sauce.
—Robin Roenker, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2024
However, a more typical Irish celebratory meal would be thick slabs of Irish bacon or another type of pork with mashed potatoes and vegetables served with a white sauce.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
Of course, Isaac picked Okamoto’s, which contained chicken four ways: fried, Buffalo, smoked, and with some kind of white sauce.
—Helen Schulman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
The food: Halal Street Food’s new location will serve its familiar traditional halal dishes and favorites such as chicken and lamb over rice, kabobs, gyros and hummus and pita — with plenty of its popular white sauce.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 9 Feb. 2024
Expect familiar traditional halal dishes and favorites such as chicken and lamb over rice, kabobs, gyros and hummus and pita, all dripping in white sauce.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2024
For any New Yorker, chicken and rice brings an image to mind of a mound of food drenched in white sauce.
—Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
Signature pizzas will include: The Bianco, made with white sauce, taleggio, pear, hot honey, arugula and EVOO.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2024
Sam Sifton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
The hotel uses halved roasted Roma tomatoes to prevent the juice from ruining the flavor and color of the creamy white sauce.
—Robin Roenker, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2024
However, a more typical Irish celebratory meal would be thick slabs of Irish bacon or another type of pork with mashed potatoes and vegetables served with a white sauce.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
Of course, Isaac picked Okamoto’s, which contained chicken four ways: fried, Buffalo, smoked, and with some kind of white sauce.
—Helen Schulman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
The food: Halal Street Food’s new location will serve its familiar traditional halal dishes and favorites such as chicken and lamb over rice, kabobs, gyros and hummus and pita — with plenty of its popular white sauce.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 9 Feb. 2024
Expect familiar traditional halal dishes and favorites such as chicken and lamb over rice, kabobs, gyros and hummus and pita, all dripping in white sauce.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2024
For any New Yorker, chicken and rice brings an image to mind of a mound of food drenched in white sauce.
—Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
Signature pizzas will include: The Bianco, made with white sauce, taleggio, pear, hot honey, arugula and EVOO.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2024
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“White sauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20sauce. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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