If you want to get ahead, make the leeky bechamel a day in advance.

As this is a traditional Neapolitan recipe, no bechamel or Bolognese sauce is involved.

The bechamel will at this point be fairly solid.

I need to make an enormous quantity of bechamel.

Whisking restaurant-sized quantities of bechamel makes the arms ache, and the back, and the feet.

This excellent vegetable can be dressed either in a bechamel sauce, or with butter and lemon-juice.

Roll them in a little bechamel sauce.

Make a thick bechamel sauce, and be sure that you cook it for ten minutes, constantly stirring.

Using cauliflower puree instead of bechamel sauce is a good way to get some veges in, she says.

He sat working out what it costs to make a pasticcio di pasta; peas and bechamel for four.

Pour the remaining bechamel, then mozzarella, then spring onions and chilli flakes over the top of the sandwich.

Serve with mushroom or bechamel sauce.

Make a bechamel sauce with cream, or, failing that, with thick tinned cream, and mix with the mushrooms.

For a veggie option, try their spinach and ricotta cannelloni, made with fresh pasta, bechamel sauce and napoletana sauce.

Shrimp macaroni and beef jus Place the unopened bags of bechamel and beef jus into the pan of simmering water.

Using two dessert spoons, divide the bechamel mix into 60g portions, and place on two plates lined with greaseproof paper.