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    Vegan White Sauce (Bechamel)

    Published: Mar 3, 2016 Updated: Jun 28, 2021 by Alison Andrews This post may contain affiliate links

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    Vegan White Sauce

    Vegan white sauce, also known as bechamel sauce. Basic 3 ingredient recipe that you can expand on with different flavorings. Creamy and delicious. 

    Vegan white sauce in a red bowl with a wooden spoon.

    So your basic vegan white sauce has a lot of uses. It’s the basic recipe that with a few additions can turn into a vegan cheese sauce.

    Also called a bechamel sauce, this is the white sauce you can use in lasagnas and other dishes that require a white sauce.

    It’s usually made with butter, flour and dairy milk. Sometimes oil, flour and dairy milk.

    Since this is the vegan version, of course the dairy milk is replaced with plant based milk. Too easy really!

    In this case I used soy milk but any plant based milk of your choice will do the trick.

    Step by step process photo collage of making a vegan white sauce.

    I tried a version using vegan butter and the butter flavor was pretty strong.

    I wasn’t a huge fan but I liked it more than Jaye who wasn’t a fan. He was all like: ‘aarrgggg butter sauce, I just ate a heap of butter in a sauce!’

    Well, needless to say, he didn’t! It was just a little butter in a lot of sauce, but whatevs.

    So the next time I made it with olive oil and I thought it tasted heaps better, and Jaye agreed.

    In fact this one was so delicious that we’ve made it a lot since then.

    And I used it in a lasagna dish that came out beautifully.

    It’s a creamy dreamy white sauce that is like a blank canvas. You can add any flavorings to it that you choose, like garlic or herbs or whatever you desire!

    The basic recipe is just 3 ingredients, and after that it’s up to you how you flavor it.

    We’ve just gone with some sea salt and black pepper, but fresh herbs would be great, dried herbs, garlic spice, chilli, mustard, whatever you’re in the mood for.

    Vegan white sauce in a red bowl with a wooden spoon.

    More Vegan Sauces

    1. Vegan Mushroom Sauce
    2. Cashew Cheese Sauce
    3. Tahini Sauce
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    5. Vegan Peppercorn Sauce
    6. Vegan Tartar Sauce
    Vegan white sauce in a red bowl with a wooden spoon.

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    Vegan white sauce in a red bowl with a wooden spoon.

    Vegan White Sauce (Bechamel)

    3-ingredient vegan white sauce recipe. Also called bechamel sauce, this simple sauce is creamy, wholesome and delicious and can be used whenever you need a white sauce.
    4.92 from 114 votes
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    Course: How To, Savory
    Cuisine: Vegan
    Diet: Vegan
    Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 20 minutes minutes
    Servings: 2 cups
    Calories: 153kcal
    Author: Alison Andrews

    Ingredients

    Basic White Sauce:

    • 3 Tbsp Olive Oil
    • 2 Tbsp All Purpose Flour
    • 2 cups (480ml) Soy Milk (or other non-dairy milk)

    Spices to taste:

    • Ground Black Pepper
    • Sea Salt
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    Instructions

    • Add the oil to a pot on the stove and heat it at medium to high heat.
    • As the oil heats, add the flour and stir or whisk vigorously.
    • Add the soy milk all at once and continue to stir and whisk (you can alternate between a wooden spoon and a whisk) and allow the sauce to gradually thicken.
    • You will usually get to the right thickness after it has reached boiling point and boiled for a few minutes.
    • When you’ve reached the desired thickness (keep in mind that the sauce will continue to thicken as it cools), remove from the heat and add any spices you choose, such as some salt and black pepper or garlic spice or whatever you choose.

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    Notes

    1. If you double this recipe, then just a note that the way to double it is that the flour must always be one less than the oil. So doubling this recipe would mean you use 6 Tbsp of olive oil and 5 Tbsp of flour.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1Serve (½ cup) | Calories: 153kcal | Carbohydrates: 6.3g | Protein: 3.9g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 1.6g | Sodium: 98mg | Fiber: 0.6g | Sugar: 3g
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    Hi I'm Alison Andrews, I'm the voice and cook behind Loving It Vegan. I love making delicious vegan food and creating vegan versions of all your old favorites, so that you’ll never feel like you’re missing out. Find out more about me here.

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    1. Kate says

      September 01, 2023 at 5:19 pm

      Fantastic! Simple and perfect! Works to perfection and can jazz it up if needed but love it as it is, vegan lasagna was amazing, my go to bechamel sauce from now on! Thank you 😊5 stars

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      • Nadine @ Loving It Vegan says

        September 22, 2023 at 11:49 am

        So happy to hear you enjoy the recipe Kate!

        Reply
    2. Mark says

      June 11, 2023 at 10:02 pm

      So simple to make. I used it as a sauce for my vegan chicken pie with a shortcrust pastry base and a puff pastry top, which turned out to be pretty awesome. I do need to tweak the additional flavouring a little (I just added garlic salt) but this is a me problem, ain’t no reflection on the recipe.
      Six stars out of five from me.
      I am going to give the butter version a whirl though as I likes me a bitta butter so long as the bitta butter I bought ain’t bitter. 😊👍5 stars

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      • Nadine Van Zyl says

        June 15, 2023 at 11:57 am

        Wow that’s sounds great Mark! Thanks so much for your awesome review! (high-five!) 🙂

        Reply
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