1,995 cream sauce recipes

Swedish hot crab canapés with sherry-spiked crabmeat, fresh dill, and a velvety cream sauce broiled on crisp toast rounds. An elegant 30-minute appetizer that serves 24.

Tortellini tossed in a rich Parmesan cream sauce with sautéed ham cubes. A Northern Italian staple that comes together in 35 minutes with just a handful of ingredients.

A layered casserole of wild rice, poached chicken, green beans, and mushrooms in a sherry-Parmesan cream sauce topped with sliced almonds. Minnesota hot-dish at its best.

Pan-cooked chicken breasts and cubed potatoes topped with a quick Dijon mustard, white wine, and sour cream sauce. A French-style dinner for two in 40 minutes.

Mushrooms and queen scallops in a silky cream sauce finished with tarragon vinegar and anchovy essence. A refined British appetizer served in scallop shells or a gratin dish.

Freezer mix stroganoff turns a beef-mushroom freezer mix into a creamy sour cream sauce served over noodles or rice. A 30-minute weeknight dinner from the freezer.

Oven-baked monkfish in a ginger cream sauce made with white wine, fish stock, and heavy cream. Includes a from-scratch fish stock recipe. Restaurant-quality seafood entree.

Baked red snapper with a cracker crumb topping, mushroom-wine cream sauce, and melted Swiss cheese. A crispy, cheesy fish dinner that comes together in under an hour.

Classic lobster pie with tender lobster in a sherry-butter cream sauce, topped with bread crumbs and baked. A New England-style seafood dish ready in 30 minutes.

Chicken breasts wrapped in ham and bacon, baked in mushroom-sour cream sauce, then sealed in puff pastry packets until golden. An impressive two-stage dinner party main.

Fettuccine with broccoli pesto made from raw broccoli florets, walnuts, Parmesan, and olive oil, tossed in a garlic-lemon cream sauce. A green twist on classic pesto pasta.

Filet farcis a la creme: flounder fillets rolled around a shrimp, crab, and mushroom stuffing, baked in a cognac cream sauce under melted Swiss. Vintage French bistro elegance.

Microwave chicken Veronique with mushrooms, white wine, and a Dijon-cream sauce studded with green grapes. The classic French bistro dish reimagined for the microwave in 30 minutes.

Garlic shrimp casserole bakes leftover garlic shrimp and rice in a chicken-stock cream sauce with red pepper flakes, topped with toasted panko for a crisp, bubbly crust.

Creamy bacon and pea pasta: crispy bacon, garlic, and sweet peas tossed with pasta in a silky Parmesan cream sauce. A 30-minute, nonna-style weeknight comfort bowl.

Classic Mornay sauce made in the microwave with a butter-flour roux, milk, egg yolks, cream, and Swiss cheese. A rich French cheese sauce ready in 10 minutes.