béchamel sauce

See also: Béchamel sauce

English

Béchamel in saucepan.

Alternative forms

• Béchamel sauce

Etymology

Borrowed from French sauce béchamel; named for Louis de Béchamel.

Noun

béchamel sauce (countable and uncountable, plural béchamel sauces)

1. A simple white sauce made from a roux of butter and flour to which is added hot milk.

Synonyms

• white sauce

Translations

white sauce made with butter, flour and milk

• Catalan: beixamel (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貝夏梅爾調味醬／贝夏梅尔调味酱 (bèixiàméi'ěr tiáowèijiàng), 白汁 (zh) (báizhī), 白醬／白酱 (báijiàng), 貝夏媚醬／贝夏媚酱 (bèixiàmèijiàng)

• Czech: bešamel (cs) m
• Dutch: bechamelsaus (nl)
• Esperanto: beŝamelo
• Finnish: valkokastike, béchamelkastike
• French: sauce béchamel (fr) f
• Galician: bechamel (gl)
• German: Béchamelsauce f, Milchsoße f
• Greek: σάλτσα μπεσαμέλ f (sáltsa besamél)
• Hungarian: besamelmártás (hu)
• Irish: brachán bán m, brachán plúir m
• Italian: besciamella (it) f
• Kazakh: бешамель (beşamel)
• Polish: beszamel (pl) m, biały sos m
• Portuguese: molho béchamel m, béchamel m
• Russian: бешаме́ль (ru) m (bešamélʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бешамел m, бешамел сос

  Latin: bešamel (sh) m, bešamel sos m

• Spanish: bechamel f, besamel f
• Swedish: béchamelsås c
• Turkish: beşamel (tr), beşamel sos
• Welsh: grefi gwyn m, grefi llaeth m

Further reading

• béchamel sauce on Wikipedia.Wikipedia