Cheese, Alfredo, Creamy or White Gravy Sauces
 
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Pick one of these simple versions of sauces to make from your SOS mix and you have numerous options on what to prepare for lunch or dinner - but healthier, quickly and even more frugally!
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Recipe type: Sauce
Ingredients
For All Sauces:
  • ⅓ dry mix of SOS sauce (Recipe at: https://thethriftycouple.com/sos)
  • 1¼ Cup of Water
For Cheese Sauce:
  • 1 Cup of Shredded Cheese of Choice (We like ½ Sharp and half other type of cheddar)
For Alfredo Sauce:
  • ½ cup Parmesan cheese, grated (fresh or canned)
  • ½ cup low-fat sour cream
For Creamy Sauce:
  • 2 TBSP. Butter
  • 2 TBSP Flour
  • 1 Cup of cheese of choice (white, cheddar, etc.)
For White Gravy:
  • 2 Tbsp fat (from meat, margarine, butter or other fat)
  • 2 cups liquid (meat drippings, water, vegetable broth or milk depending on flavor your are going for)
  • OR Broth
  • ½ cup of dry SOS mix (instead of the ⅓ cup and no water as the other ingredients make up the liquid)
Instructions
For Cheese Sauce:
  1. Make the SOS mix by heating dry mix and water over med. heat and whisking until bubbly and lump free.
  2. Then add the 1 Cup of Shredded Cheese of Choice and stir over low until all of the cheese is melted.
  3. Then use your cheese sauce in your dish or recipe like normal!
For Alfredo Sauce:
  1. Make the SOS mix by heating dry mix and water over med. heat and whisking until bubbly and lump free.
  2. Then add the other two ingredients and heat and stir on low until well mixed and bubbling slightly.
  3. Then serve and use just as your recipe or dish calls for.
For Creamy Sauce:
  1. First melt the butter in a saucepan on med. heat. Once melted, add the flour to soak up all of the butter to create a rue.
  2. Once the rue is made, then add your ⅓ cup dry mix and 1¼ cup water to the rue and heat over med. and whisking until bubbly and lump free.
  3. Then add the cup of cheese of choice and stir until melted and well mixed and smooth!
  4. Once cooked, use this sauce as you would like in your recipe or dish!
For White Gravy:
  1. Use your meat drippings from your roasting pan or crockpot from your cooked meat by placing them in a bowl.
  2. Allow the drippings to cool and then skim the fat that rises to surface to use. Still reserve the remaining liquid drippings. (Remaining drippings in bowl are meat juices that should be used as part of liquid in gravy - it is what makes gravy taste amazing :))
  3. Add fat to sauce pan (with meat dripping); stir in SOS Mix until smooth. Heat until bubbly. Stir in liquid and cook until sauce thickens; continue stirring and cooking 2 or 3 minutes longer, scraping bottom and sides of roasting pan to blend in the meat drippings and catch all of that flavor.
For White Gravy without Meat Fat and Drippings:
  1. You will need to make a rue as demonstrated in the Creamy Sauce recipe using 2 TBSP of butter melted and then add the 2 TBSP of flour to make the rue.
  2. Prepare the SOS mix with broth (chicken, turkey, beef, pork, etc.) for a lighter, but still very yummy gravy by mixing in ⅓ dry SOS mix into the rue with 1¼ cup of broth and cook on med. and whisk until bubbly and lump free!
Notes
Choose your sauce and it will only take you a couple of minutes to have a fresh, rich tasting ingredient for many, many dishes!

More Recipe Ideas:
Check out https://thethriftycouple.com/sos for more recipe ideas using the SOS mix!

Recipe by The Thrifty Couple at https://thethriftycouple.com/recipes-for-sauces-made-with-sos-mix-cheese-creamy-alfredo-and-white-gravy/