Vegetables in béchamel sauce with cottage ham

AUTHOR
Pat Ware
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 5
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 1 Cauliflower (about 1,2 kg, cleaned 690 g)
  • 250 g green beans
  • 1 kg (approx. 300 g net) Peas
  • 300 g Carrots
  • 800 g young potatoes
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 1 collar Parsley
  • 40 g Butter or margarine
  • 40 g Flour
  • 200 g Whipped cream
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 1 TEASPOON Vegetable broth
  • 7-10 Tbsp grated nutmeg
  • 8 discs cottage ham (approx. 20 g each)

Directions

  1. 1

    Clean and wash the cauliflower and cut off the florets. Clean and wash the beans and break through 1 x in the middle. Peas peel. Peel, wash and slice carrots. Wash potatoes thoroughly and brush if necessary.

  2. 2

    Put the beans into 1 litre of boiling salted water and cook for about 20 minutes. After about 10 minutes add carrots, bring to the boil again. Add the cauliflower 8 minutes before the end of the cooking time. Add the peas 3 minutes before the end of the cooking time.

  3. 3

    Meanwhile, cook the potatoes in boiling salted water for about 20 minutes. Wash parsley, shake dry and chop finely. Pour the vegetables into a sieve, collecting the vegetable water. Measure 500 ml vegetable water.

  4. 4

    Melt the fat in a saucepan, dust with flour, sauté while stirring and gradually deglaze with measured vegetable water and cream. While stirring. Season vigorously with salt, pepper, stock and nutmeg.

  5. 5

    Add vegetables and parsley, heat up again. Drain the potatoes. Arrange potatoes, vegetables and ham on plates.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
690 kcal
CARBS
55 g
FATS
39 g
PROTEINS
25 g

Categories & Tags

MiscellaneousSummer