white sauce
noun
: a sauce consisting essentially of a roux with milk, cream, or stock and seasoning
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The menu features a white sauce mushroom bolognese lasagna, fennel mushroom sausage pizza and crispy, garlic fingerling potatoes.
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Meira Gebel, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
The hotel uses halved roasted Roma tomatoes to prevent the juice from ruining the flavor and color of the creamy white sauce.
—Robin Roenker, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2025
Le döner: Lamb, chicken, or a combination cut from a vertical spit and
stuffed into a pita with tomatoes, onions, lettuce, and white sauce.
—Lindsey Tramuta, Bon Appétit, 20 Mar. 2025
Hampton Roads also gave the world salsa blanca, or white sauce.
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 22 Nov. 2024
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Meira Gebel, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
The hotel uses halved roasted Roma tomatoes to prevent the juice from ruining the flavor and color of the creamy white sauce.
—Robin Roenker, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2025
Le döner: Lamb, chicken, or a combination cut from a vertical spit and
stuffed into a pita with tomatoes, onions, lettuce, and white sauce.
—Lindsey Tramuta, Bon Appétit, 20 Mar. 2025
Hampton Roads also gave the world salsa blanca, or white sauce.
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 22 Nov. 2024
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“White sauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20sauce. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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