Creamy mustard sauce

Creamy mustard sauce is really a white sauce flavoured with mustard.  To give it a more pronounced mustard flavour a spoonful of yellow mustard seeds is added.  This also gives the sauce an agreeable crunchy quality.

Preparation Time             15  Mins

Cooking Time                 10  Mins

Elapsed Time                 25  Mins

Ingredients

For     8  portions

60 gms            Butter

60 ml              Crème fraîche

2                    Egg  - yolks

6 tbs               Flour

510 ml             Milk  - boiling

1 tbs               Mustard  - Dijon

1 tbs               Mustard seeds  - yellow

Method

Gently melt the butter in a saucepan.  Add the flour to make a roux and gradually stir in the boiling milk. Season and cook for 10 minutes, stirring.  Remove from heat and mix in the mustard, egg yolks and crème fraîche. 

Wine recommendations

Conventional

          Muscadet Sèvre et Maine Sur lie

Interesting

          Entre-deux-Mers

          Montlouis

          Picpoul de Pinet

          Quincy