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.
Last modified on: July 25th 2019
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6 
9 tablespoons 
3 pinches 
402 ml 
6 tablespoons lemon juice
How long will it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Start to finish |
|---|---|
| 22 min. | 22 min. |
At what time:
- When will I finish if I start the recipe at ... ?
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 5 min.
Prepare a bain-marie and in the top bowl put 6 egg yolks, 9 tablespoons dry white wine, 3 pinches flour, salt and pepper.
Stage 2 - 5 min.
On the bain-marie, beat slowly the mix until...
Stage 3
...first a simple mix...
Stage 4 - 5 min.
...then getting a smooth and creamy mixture, which "sticks" to whisk when you remove it from the bowl.
Beat until sauce reaches this stage.
Beat until sauce reaches this stage.
Stage 5 - 5 min.
As soon the "sticking" stage is reached, pour 402 ml butter a little at a time into the mixture, while beating continuously.
Note: Instead of butter you can use clarified butter, which is easier for beginners.
Note: Instead of butter you can use clarified butter, which is easier for beginners.
Stage 6 - 2 min.
When all the butter is added, finish by adding 6 tablespoons lemon juice, while still beating.
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.
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.
Stage 7
Your Hollandaise sauce is ready, it can wait a short while, covered in the bain-marie, off the heat.
Remarks
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 faster.
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 faster.
Keeping
Once cooked, a few minutes.
Source
Home made.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 3,427 Kcal or 14,348 Kj | 24 gr | 11 gr | 365 gr |
| 171 % | 9 % | 1 % | 55 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 466 Kcal or 1,951 Kj | 3 gr | 1 gr | 50 gr |
| 23 % | 1 % | <1 % | 8 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 600 g : 4.56 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
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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: Pecan fruit rolls , Cajun pulled pork, Gâteau Breton (Brittany butter cake), How to prevent butter burning during cooking, Caramelised apple pie, ... All |
 | Dry white wine: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Mushrooms on toast, French style, Cod loin with saffron, Seafood sauerkraut, Tomato meat balls, Cheese tart, ... All |
 | Lemon juice: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Corn salad with croutons, Greek salad, Gravlax, Tomato ladybirds, Cretan salad, ... All |
 | Egg yolk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spaghetti Carbonara, Fresh mint ice-cream, Lime confectioner's custard (pastry cream), Tagliatelle and courgette spaghetti, carbonara style, Spaghetti with smoked salmon, ... All |
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