Baby Portobella Alfredo Sauce

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons butter divided
• 10  cremini mushrooms trimmed
• 2 tablespoons flour 
• 4 cloves garlic 
• 1 cup half-and-half 
• 0.8 cup cheese blend shredded italian
• 0.5  onion cut into chunks
• 4 servings salt and pepper to taste

Equipment

• sauce pan
• whisk
• blender

Directions

1. Process mushrooms, onion, and garlic in a blender until mixture is pureed. Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook and stir the mushroom paste in the melted butter until smooth.
2. Melt 2 more tablespoons butter in a separate saucepan over medium heat; gradually sprinkle flour into the melted butter, stirring continually.
3. Whisk half-and-half into the flour paste; cook and stir until the sauce is thick and smooth, 4 to 5 minutes.
4. Whisk mushroom mixture into sauce and cook until sauce has thickened a bit more, about 10 minutes. Stir cheese into the sauce; cook until the cheese melts, 2 to 3 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.