Black Garlic Kitchen

Black Garlic Christmas Bread Sauce

A traditional British sauce used as an accompaniment to Christmas lunch or dinner. Made with milk and breadcrumbs, spiced with dried cloves and enhanced with a hint of Black Garlic.


BGK’s Festive Fun Facts – bread sauce can be traced back to medieval times when cooks used bread as a thickening agent for sauces, stews and soups that were once served at Christmas feasts.

Black Garlic christmas bread sauce

Prep:  20 mins including infusing the milk | Cook: 5 mins approx. | Serves: 4

V: excluding serving suggestion

Ingredients

  • 1 large whole onion – peeled
  • 6 dried spice cloves
  • 1 pint milk
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 8 black peppercorns
  • 120g white breadcrumbs
  • ½ tbsp Black Garlic Paste
  • 50g butter
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method

  • Stud the onion with the dried spice cloves.
  • Put the milk, bay leaf and peppercorns into a saucepan. Add the whole studded onion. Bring to the boil then remove from the heat. Leave to infuse for 15 minutes.
  • Remove the onion from the milk mixture and pass the liquid through a sieve into a separate saucepan. 
  • Add the breadcrumbs and Black Garlic Paste to the sieved milk. Simmer over a low heat until the breadcrumbs are absorbed, stirring occasionally. 
  • Stir in the butter.
  • Season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
 

To Serve: serve alongside BGK’s Black Garlic Christmas Stuffed & Rolled Turkey.

Top Tip: BGK’s Black Garlic Bread Sauce can be made ahead of time. If making a day or two before, loosen the sauce with a little milk when re-heating. Adding a couple of tablespoons of double cream before serving is a nice addition.

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