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Eggs Benedict

Soft-boiled eggs, served on toast with a slice of fried smoked ham, and the whole covered with Hollandaise sauce.

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Last modified on: April 8^th 2023

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For 4 eggs, you will need:

1 4 slices Sandwich bread
2 30 g butter
3 2 slices smoked ham
4 4 Poached eggs
5 200 g Hollandaise sauce
6 4 leaves parsley (optional)
Total weight: 650 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
1 hour 1 min.	3 min.	1 hour 4 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 20 min.

Prepare 200 g Hollandaise sauce.

Keep hot.

Stage 2 - 20 min.

Prepare 4 Poached eggs.

Keep hot.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Remove crusts of 4 slices Sandwich bread.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Butter one side.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Cut 2 slices smoked ham in 2, to get slices about the same size as the toast.

Heat the plates.

Stage 6 - 1 min.

Put ham slices in a hot frying pan, 30 seconds on each side (if you use regular ham instead of smoked, leave until ham is lightly fried).

Keep hot.

Stage 7 - 2 min.

In the same pan, put the toast butter side down until well browned, then turn over and cook the other side for 1 minute.

If you are in a hurry, don't butter toast, just put in a toaster.

Stage 8 - 3 min.

Put 1 slice of toast (or 2 if you are hungry) onto a hot plate, add a ham slice on top then a soft-boiled egg.

Stage 9 - 5 min.

Cover with hollandaise sauce. If possible decorate with a parsley leaf, and serve immediately.

Remarks

Try to use not completely white bread, but whole-wheat instead, your toast and your eggs Benedict will be better. Even better is to make your own sandwich bread. Don't be afraid, it's quite easy.

Keeping

To eat right now.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
977 Kcal or 4,091 Kj	38 gr	76 gr	163 gr
49 %	15 %	7 %	25 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
150 Kcal or 628 Kj	6 gr	12 gr	25 gr
8 %	2 %	1 %	4 %

Per eggs
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
244 Kcal or 1,022 Kj	10 gr	19 gr	41 gr
12 %	4 %	2 %	6 %

% 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).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Gluten, Egg, Sulfites

How much will it cost?

For 4 eggs : 3.30 €
Per eggs : 0.83 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Hollandaise sauce: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Langoustine and leek tarts, Fish terrine with spinach and tomatoes, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cockles and cabbage with smoky cream sauce, Spinach and hard-boiled egg gratin, Tea and white chocolate biscuits, "BN style" chocolate-filled biscuits, Quick Strawberry Millefeuille, ... All
	Sandwich bread: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pain perdu, Fried egg in bread, Chicken club sandwich, Comtoise apple charlotte, Crab and smoked salmon club sandwiches , ... All
	Poached eggs: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Eggs meurette, Poached eggs with spinach and Comté milk, Baked potatoes with poached egg and tuna sauce , Polenta with spinach and soft-poached egg, Eggs Arsène, ... All

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