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Mornay

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A white sauce with cheese used to make dishes creamy

noun
/mɔrˈneɪ/

: salsa Mornay

You can use mornay sauce to add richness to your gratin dishes.

Examples

The chef prepared a creamy mornay sauce to enhance the flavor of the vegetables.
We have Crystal Cove prawns, Coffin Bay oysters and lobster mornay in a cheese sauce.

A Few Best Men (2011)
For dinner, we enjoyed a delicious lobster mornay baked with cheese on top.

Synonyms

cheese sauce

vsMornay

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A creamy sauce made from melted cheese to pour over foods like pasta or vegetables

is the same basic cheese-flavored white sauce used broadly to add flavor

white sauce

vsMornay

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A sauce made from milk thickened with butter and flour

is the cheese version of that base made to add extra flavor

Mornay sauce

vsMornay

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A rich cheese sauce made with butter, flour, milk, and grated cheese

is the general white sauce with cheese added to flavor dishes

Compounds

Mornay sauce

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A rich cheese sauce made with butter, flour, milk, and grated cheese

How Rich

cheese fondue

1 3.1

hollandaise

8 7.0

Mornay

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bechamel

Specialized

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Surface Forms

Mornay singular

Mornays plural

Etymology

Mornay (the sauce) is named after a French family called Mornay, because cooks once named the rich white sauce with cheese for a person or family of that name, so the word now means a specific cheesy white sauce.