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Glass bowl full of pink beetroot bechamel made in the thermomix

Thermomix Pink Beetroot Béchamel

Maria Bravo
Bechamel but make it pink
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Course Side Dish

Equipment

  • 1 Thermomix any model

Ingredients
  

  • 150-200 g raw beetroot peeled and quartered, the more you add the more the beetroot flavour will come across
  • 500 g milk both whole and skimmed work
  • 15 g extra virgin olive oil EVOO
  • 50 g unsalted butter
  • 50 g plain flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • Black pepper milled
  • 1 pinch of grated nutmeg

Instructions
 

  • Chop the raw beetroot: 10 seconds, speed 7.
  • Add 500 g milk: 2 min speed 10, strain well with a nut milk bag over a big bowl. Et voilà you have beetroot milk (have a taste it's actually surprisingly delicious). Now, let's make the béchamel.
  • Quickly rinse the bowl and add 15 g EVOO + 50 g unsalted butter: 1 min, 100º, speed 2.
  • Add 50 g plain flour: 2 minutes, 100º, speed 1.
  • Add 1 teaspoon sea salt + a few twists of black pepper + a pinch of nutmeg to the reserved beetroot milk then add to the bowl: 5 seconds, speed 7 followed by 8 minutes, 100º, speed 4.
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