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Published: 20 August 2009

Healthy, fresh vegetables grown from a personal garden patch

Onions in white sauce
If you read all the good things onions can do, such as ward off cancer, heart attacks etc, you would make them your sole food! Egyptians found that they cured 8,000 ailments. Setting these facts aside, it is certainly worth eating some onion most days. This recipe is hardly ever done and is one of my favourite comfort foods. It can make a supper dish or be served as a vegetable as part of a main course. The onion water can be used to make soup if you wish.

Ingredients
Serves 4
4 large Spanish type onions, peeled
50g butter
50g flour
10 fl oz milk
50g Cheddar cheese, grated, optional
Salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Method
Put the onions into a large saucepan and cover with water. Add some salt and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for about one hour depending on the size of the onions. They will be soft through when cooked. Strain and keep the onion water.
Melt the butter in a small saucepan and then add the flour and stir well. Gradually add the milk, stirring continuously to make a smooth white sauce. Stir in the grated cheese and season with salt and pepper. Add some onion water if too thick.
Put the onions into a dish and pour over the white sauce and serve hot.

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