With just 4 ingredients, this Keto Cheese Sauce is a very easy low-carb white sauce with just 1g net carbs, great over steak, vegetables, or chicken.
A delicious Keto Cheese Sauce – Aka Low-carb “Bechamel” sauce that you can make with cream cheese easily to add flavor and fat to many meat and vegetable dishes.
We use Mozzarella Cheese to thicken our keto cheese sauce (also known as “bechamel sauce”) as Cheddar Cheese releases a lot of oil when added. Mozzarella cheese also blends well when making a low-carb white sauce with cream cheese.
This keto cheese sauce recipe makes ten servings. One serve is 100ml/3.5oz.
Ingredients for Keto Cheese Sauce
- 8 ounces of Cream Cheese
- 1 cup of Butter
- 1 cup of Heavy Cream
- 2 cups of Mozzarella Cheese, shredded
When choosing the cream cheese for this low-carb white sauce, just be sure that you select the “full cream.” Avoid any no-fat or skim cream cheese. You want your sauce to be low-carb, not low-fat.
How To Make Keto Cheese Sauce
- In a saucepan, place the cream cheese, butter, and heavy cream and place over low heat.
- Continue stirring until the cream cheese has melted and all ingredients are combined.
- Add the mozzarella cheese and whisk continuously until it is melted and thoroughly combined.
- Use the sauce immediately, or store it in the fridge. Reheat over low heat, whisking continuously.
The Best Keto Cheese Sauce Recipe (1g Carbs)
Unit Conversion
Ingredients
- 8 ounces Cream Cheese
- 1 cup Butter
- 1 cup Heavy Cream
- 2 cups mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- In a saucepan, place the cream cheese, butter and heavy cream and place over low heat.8 ounces Cream Cheese, 1 cup Butter, 1 cup Heavy Cream
- Continue stirring until the cream cheese has melted and all ingredients are combined.
- Add the mozzarella cheese and whisk continuously until it is melted and fully combined.2 cups mozzarella cheese
- Use the sauce immediately, or store in the fridge. Reheat over low heat, whisking continuously.
Notes
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Low-Carb Cheese Sauce Uses
- It goes with steak dishes
- Pouring over steamed broccoli
- Blending with cauliflower
- With a roast chicken
- As a dip for adding fat to seafood such as prawns (shrimp), lobster, and crab, most shellfish are high in protein and low carb but lack fat content. Low-carb cheese sauce allows you to enjoy them.
The low-carb keto cheese sauce is a versatile recipe for flavoring otherwise dull meals. Using cream cheese for white sauces is also relatively cheap instead to buying ready-made (if you can find any low-carb cheese sauces with no sugar added on the shelves).
Adjust the serving amounts in the recipe card above to make a larger batch of Keto Cheese Sauce.
Has anyone tried cheddar cheese in place of the mozzarella?
Hi Dee, we find Cheddar too oily when its melted.
I am making this ahead of time in a casserole. Will this reheat nicely in the oven after being in the refrigerator mixed into casserole?
Hi Vicki, yes it should be fine.
Can I use half mozzarella and half parmesan?
Not sure about that, Debbie. you can try but the parmesan will definitely change the consistency. But it may work. There’s only one way to find out.
This was delicious!! I added a little bit of salt, pepper and some nutmeg to make it taste more like a bechamel. I poured it over some steamed cauliflower, added some Trader Joe’s shredded emmental/swiss cheese mix and baked it in the oven at 400F for 15 mins. Delicious!!
Hello Morgane, thank you so much for your feedback. So glad you enjoyed the cheese sauce.
So good and so easy. I use this for lasagne
So glad you liked the cheese sauce, Linda.
Does this sauce freeze well if I made a larger batch? 🙂
Hello Mindez, no sorry freezing will ruin cheese sauce, sorry.
This is my go to cheese sauce now, my family loves it too even though they’re not low carb! Thank you!
So glad you love it Sharen.
Oh My YUMMMMMMM!!!!
This recipe is AMAZING! So simple and oh so tasty! Admittedly I did fudge a few quantities but the whole experience was just PERFECT! Definitely adding this to my recipe repotoire! Thank you so much for this recipe!
After beginning my low carb journey 13 months ago (and reaping the benefits of 22 kg weight loss in the first 6 months and most importantly a reduction of the inflammation in my osteoarthrititic knees) I desperately needed a low carb cheese sauce for my cauliflower au gratin. It’s winter time and what better comfort food is there than cream cheese, cheese, cream and butter. Not to mention more cheese grilled on the top lol.
Thank you
That’s exactly why i went searching for a keto bachamel. Cauliflower au gratin! *fingers crossed*
Utterly delicious
Thanks Chloe!!
Sensational sauce and so quick and easy to make
So easy and so tasty!