Healthy white sauce?

[BjsAust]

So I'm making a tuna casserole the other night and thinking what a perfect meal it is...except the white sauce made with 2 tablespoons of butter. Any suggestions on making if not a healthy white sauce, at least one not quite as unhealthy?

[anniehall]

i usually substitute the white sauce with low fat cream of mushroom soup. it's a slightly different taste but same consistency and i've grown to like it. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Johnka]

Good idea from Annie. I also use plain yogurt for white sauces - good stuff.

[Lost Dog]

What else is in the white sauce? Are you worried about other things besides the butter? Like flour, milk, etc. Depending on your white sauce recipe, you may just be able to leave out much or all of the butter.

I sometimes make a roux with wheat gluten and canola oil or olive oil, then use that to thicken milk (usually the Carb Countdown milk that I drink). It won't have the buttery flavor, but if you need it, you can shake in some Molly McButter or Butter Buds (or even use 1/4 of the normal amount of butter for flavoring).

The roux even works great for gumbo, for those worrying about the carbs in the normal roux. It colors up nicely, much like regular flour and fat rouxs.

[BjsAust]

Butter, corn flower, milk. Basic stuff.

I'll try some of the ideas above and see which works best, thanks [img]smile.gif[/img] .

[BamaDave]

Originally posted by Lost_Dog:
What else is in the white sauce? Are you worried about other things besides the butter? Like flour, milk, etc. Depending on your white sauce recipe, you may just be able to leave out much or all of the butter.

I sometimes make a roux with wheat gluten and canola oil or olive oil, then use that to thicken milk (usually the Carb Countdown milk that I drink). It won't have the buttery flavor, but if you need it, you can shake in some Molly McButter or Butter Buds (or even use 1/4 of the normal amount of butter for flavoring).

The roux even works great for gumbo, for those worrying about the carbs in the normal roux. It colors up nicely, much like regular flour and fat rouxs.

Thanks for that tip on making a roux!! Using wheat gluten never even crossed my mind.

[Lost Dog]

The wheat gluten roux made for some tasty gumbo! Luckily, I've never needed a lot of rice in my gumbo to make me happy, so I'm a happy man!