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Hollandaise sauce

This sauce is quite similar to Béarnaise sauce, but with a light lemon flavour. It can be used hot, warm or cold on several things: vegetables, fish, eggs... Not easy to get right, like all "emulsified warm sauces" (Béarnaise, Hollandaise, etc.), but you will find all the tips you need here.

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Last modified on: April 1^st 2012

For 200 g, you will need:

1 150 g butter
2 2 egg yolks
3 2 tablespoons water
4 2 tablespoons lemon juice
5 salt
6 pepper
Total weight: 250 grams

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How long does it take?

Time required

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
18 min.	5 min.	23 min.

Keeping:

Once cooked, a few minutes.

At what time?

When will I finish if I start the recipe at a certain time?
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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Melt 150 g butter, then remove from heat.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Prepare a bain-marie and in the top bowl put 2 egg yolks, 2 tablespoons water, salt and pepper.

Stage 3 - 7 min.

On the bain-marie, beat egg yolks and water until getting a smooth and creamy mixture...

Stage 4

...which "sticks" to whisk when you remove it from the bowl.

Beat until sauce reaches this stage.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

As soon the "sticking" stage is reached, pour melted butter a little at a time into the mixture, while beating continuously.

Stage 6 - 1 min.

When all the butter is added, finish by adding 2 tablespoons lemon juice, while still beating.

Stage 7

Taste to check seasoning, and if there is enough lemon. If not, add some more lemon juice, then beat a little more to mix thoroughly.

Your Hollandaise sauce is ready, it can wait a short while, covered in the bain-marie, off the heat.

Remarks

For a tastier Hollandaise sauce, replace water with dry white wine, or even better a mix of white wine and vinegar reduced to half in a pan on low heat.

For these kind of "emulsified warm sauces" (so called by chefs) one wrong move and your sauce collapses. In other words you are proud of the nice emulsion that is forming under your whisk, and then in a second you have an ugly curdled butter mixture in the bottom of your bowl...

What's happened? Probably your sauce needed more water, in other words the very small volume of water eventually evaporates due to the heat and beating, and without this water your sauce collapses (same as your morale - have you noticed?).

What can I do? You can try to recover the sauce by removing bowl from bain-marie, add 2 tablespoons of cold water, and start to beat again. This is not a totally sure method, but it usually works.

For adding butter, you will find many different recipes all claiming to be the only one that works: cold butter, very cold, in small pieces, clarified, etc. At my opinion there is no real difference between them. I found the way with melted butter easier and so I use it each time.

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 200 g : 2.57 €

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Source

Home made.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Mushroom velouté, Breton sablé biscuit dough, Sausage mushroom and cheese crumble, Turnip top soup, Beurre d'escargot, ... All
	Egg yolk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Breton sablé biscuit dough, Key Lime Pie for Jeremy, Chocolate cream, Little lemon biscuits, Gâteau Basque , ... All
	Water: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Franche-Comté sticks, Mixed seed grissini, Ali Baba bread, Turban of sole with langoustines, Papadums, ... All
	Lemon juice: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Macarons (the original French macaroons) , Chocolate mousse, Tomato pesto, Rémoulette dressing, Corn salad with croutons, ... All

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Your 1 comments or questions on this recipe

Thank you so much for posting this golden recipe JH. I adore Hollandaise Sauce but I'm just so bad at preparing it correctly. I'm saving this for sure!!!
Posted by Louise august 20^th 2009 at 22:10 (n° 1)

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