English
Béchamel in saucepan.
Etymology
Borrowed from French sauce béchamel; named for Louis de Béchamel.
Noun
béchamel sauce (countable and uncountable, plural béchamel sauces)
- A simple white sauce made from a roux of butter and flour to which is added hot milk.
Synonyms
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, 贝夏梅尔调味酱 (bèixiàméi'ěr tiáowèijiàng)
- Czech: bešamel (cs) m
- Dutch: bechamelsaus (nl)
- Finnish: valkokastike, béchamelkastike
- French: sauce béchamel f
- Galician: bechamel (gl)
- German: Béchamelsoße (de) f, Bechamelsoße f, Milchsoße f
- Greek: σάλτσα μπεσαμέλ f (sáltsa besamél)
- Hungarian: besamelmártás
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- Irish: brachán bán m, brachán plúir m
- Italian: besciamella (it) f
- 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
- Turkish: beşamel (tr), beşamel sos
- Welsh: grefi gwyn m, grefi llaeth m
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Further reading
béchamel sauce on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 