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Cheese Sauce

Source of Recipe


From "BBQ USA" by Steven Raichlen



List of Ingredients



• ½ clove garlic
  
• 1 cup beer
  
• 2 cups (about 8 ounces) coarsely grated Colby cheese or Cheddar cheese
  
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch
  
• 2 teaspoons prepared mustard
  
• Coarse salt (kosher or sea) and freshly ground black pepper
  






Instructions



1. Rub the bottom and side of a heavy saucepan with the cut garlic. Place the garlic clove in the pan, add the beer, and bring to a boil over high heat.
   
   
2. Meanwhile, place the cheese and cornstarch in a bowl and toss to mix. Sprinkle the cheese into the boiling beer, stirring it with a wooden spoon. Let the sauce come back to a boil; it will thicken.
   
   
3. Reduce the heat slightly, stir in the mustard, and season the sauce with salt and pepper to taste. Let the sauce simmer gently until smooth and rich-tasting, 3 to 5 minutes, stirring steadily with the wooden spoon. The purist can fish out and discard the garlic clove; otherwise, one lucky person will get to eat it.
   
   Makes about 1 ¼ cups
   
   






Final Comments


• To make a light cheese sauce, use an inexpensive lager-style mass-marketed canned beer. For a darker, richer sauce with a pleasantly bitter edge, use a dark beer.