English Muffin Benedict Baskets
- Ready In:
- 1hr 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Yields:
-
6 baskets
ingredients
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BENEDICT BASKETS
- 3 English muffins
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon prepared yellow mustard
- 1⁄4 cup diced onion
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 cups fresh Baby Spinach
- 1⁄4 cup seeded and diced tomato
- salt, to taste
- ground black pepper, to taste
- red pepper flakes, to taste
- 6 eggs, room temperature
- 1 cup shredded swiss cheese
- 1 cup goat-cheese hollandaise sauce
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HOLLANDAISE SAUCE
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 1⁄3 cup distilled white vinegar
- 1⁄3 cup water
- 1⁄2 teaspoon black peppercorns, crushed
- 3 eggs
- 2 tablespoons goat cheese (room-temperature)
directions
- PREPARE BASKETS:.
- Preheat oven to 350º; coat a jumbo muffin pan with nonstick spray.
- Roll the 6 muffin halves a bit larger using a rolling pin to flatten.
- Place a muffin half in each muffin tin, pressing up the sides to form baskets.
- Combine the melted butter and mustard ina small bowl, then brush onto the baskets.
- Toast baskets in the oven until slightly browned about 15 minutes.
- Sweat onion and garlic in oil in a sauté pan over medium-low heat until softened, about 5 minutes.
- Add spinach and cook until just starting to wilt: stir in tomatoes.
- Remove from heat; season to taste (don't forget the red pepper flakes).
- Place 1 egg into each toasted basket.
- Divide cheese and spinach mixture evenly among the 6 baskets.
- Return to oven and bake 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and lift baskets from the pan with a knife.
- Serve immediately with Goat-Cheese Hollandaise sauce if desired.
- GOAT-CHEESE HOLLANDAISE:.
- Melt butter in a small saucepan, over low heat; skim off and discard the foam that rises to the top.
- Remove butter from heat.
- Boil vinegar, water and peppercornns in a small saucepan over high heat until reduced to 3 T liquid; stain and set aside.
- Simmer 1 inch of water in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat.
- Whisk egg yolks in a medium stainless steel bowl; place bowl over simmering water (don't let bowl touch the water) -- add vinegar,reduction and whisk vigorously until the yolks thicken to the point that the whisk leaves trails in them, about 2 minutes.
- Whisk 1 T room-temperature goat cheese into the thickened egg yolk mixture.
- Remove bowl from the pan; begin whisking in the warm clarified butter a drop at a time.
- As it is incorporated add th butter in a thin stream.
- If mixture gets cold, return bowl to the pan of simmering water and continue whisking in butter; after all the butter is incorporated, whisk in the remaining goat cheese and adjust seasoning to taste.
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