How to Make a Roux (Easy Roux Recipe)

🧂 Ingredients

• ½ cup peanut oil or vegetable oil
• ½ cup flour

Instructions

• 1 Add ½ cup peanut oil to a large pot and heat to medium heat. Add flour and stir.
• 2 Cook for 10 minutes, constantly stirring, until the roux lightly browns to a
  blonde roux, or continue stirring and cooking for up to 30 minutes for a roux
  the color of chocolate. The roux will darken as you stir, from very light brown
  to copper or peanut butter brown, then then to light chocolate, then dark
  chocolate, then very, very dark brown.

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