Hollandaise Sauce

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Prep10 min
Cook15 min
Total25 min

The luxurious French emulsion sauce — egg yolks and clarified butter whisked into a rich, velvety yellow sauce with bright lemon. Essential for Eggs Benedict.

Ingredients

Serves:4
  • 3 pieces egg yolks
  • 200 g unsalted butter
  • 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
  • 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp cold water
  • 0.5 tsp salt
  • 1 pinch white pepper
  • 1 pinch cayenne pepper

Nutrition (estimated)

high confidence
404kcal · per serving
2.5g
Protein
0.9g
Carbs
44g
Fat

Recipe total: 1614 kcal · P 10g · C 3.5g · F 175.8g

Estimated from 8 of 8 ingredients

Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.

Steps

  1. 1
    Clarify the butter by melting it gently and skimming off the foam. Keep warm.
  2. 2
    Place egg yolks, vinegar, and cold water in a heatproof bowl over a pot of barely simmering water (double boiler). Whisk until the mixture doubles in volume and leaves a ribbon trail.
  3. 3
    Remove from heat. Very slowly drizzle in the clarified butter, whisking constantly to form the emulsion.
  4. 4
    Season with lemon juice, salt, white pepper, and a pinch of cayenne.
  5. 5
    Serve immediately. If the sauce splits, whisk a fresh egg yolk in a clean bowl and slowly whisk in the broken sauce.
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