Lauksósa

Onion sauce

This recipe for white onion sauce with cooked onions comes from an old Icelandic cookbook from the 1940s. Certainly not high cuisine - but solid home cooking!


Ingredients

3 large onions
2 Tbsp margarine
2 Tbsp flour
400 ml milk
1 pinch of salt


Preparation

Peel the onion, halve it and cut it into (half) rings.

Then cook the onion rings in hot water.

Melt the margarine in a saucepan, stir in the flour to form a thick lump,...

...and then pour in the milk in small sips and stir immediately.

Finally, bring the sauce to the boil briefly.

Then add the cooked onion and season with a little salt.

The onion sauce is traditionally served with fish dishes.

We had the onion sauce with fish balls - very tasty! My youngest stayed at the table and ate until all the fish balls were gone!

[Translated from here.]