Hollandaise Sauce
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
-
1 1/2 cups
ingredients
- 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon white pepper
- 3 large egg yolks, beaten lightly
- 1 cup butter, at room temperature,cut into 12 pieces
- fresh lemon juice
- cayenne pepper
directions
- In a small saucepan, combine vinegar, 2 tblsps water, salt and white pepper and reduce over moderately-high heat to about 2 tblsps.
- Remove from heat and add 1 tblsp cold water.
- Add yolks and cook mixture over very low heat, whisking, until it is thickened.
- Whisk in butter, one piece at a time, over low heat, lifting pan occasionally to cool mixture and making sure each piece is melted before adding next.
- Cook sauce, whisking, until it is thickened.
- Add lemon juice, cayenne pepper and salt to taste.
- The sauce may be kept warm, covered with a round of buttered wax paper, in a pan of warm water.
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Reviews
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I followed the recipe exactly until step 6. At this point, no measurements were given in the ingredient list - so I added 1 tsp lemon juice & 1/4 tsp cayenne. Since salt was introduced at the beginning of the recipe, I didn't add any more at this point. The hint of cayenne gave the sauce a bit of heat & it was quite tasty over steamed asparagus. Thanx Evelyn! -
Eric? Most Hollandaise recipes have a hint of cayenne pepper in them. This is a good recipe, altho I always do the blender hollandaise recipe cuz it is so much easier. Thanks for posting evelyn! -
Hollandaise with Cayenne. Harumph. Might just as well add dijon, peppercorn and mayo. Certainly couldn't hurt. -
This was really easy to make! No more packets for me, especially when I always have everything this calls for on hand. Thanks for posting. -
CountryLady, the lemon juice, cayenne and salt are to taste, that's why I didn't give exact measurements.
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I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.
