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Rachel Allen

Hollandaise Sauce


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Method

  1. Put the egg yolks into a saucepan, whisk in 1 tbsp water, then place the saucepan on a very low heat and very gradually, whisk in the butter bit by bit, it should emulsify as you whisk it in..
  2. The heat should be so low, that you should be able to keep your hands on the sides of the saucepan, you can take it off the heat every now and then, don’t worry.
  3. When all the butter has been added in ,taste , it’ll need a bit of lemon juice, about 1 tsp. It probably will not need any salt if you have used salted buter.
  4. Keep warm in a pyrex jug sitting in a saucepan, with about 4cm of very hot but not boiling water. Keeps like this for a couple of hours, just heat up the water gently when it cools down.
  5. Left over hollandaise is excellent in mashed potato!!!
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  • kerry
    July 2010

    How do you make the original? Would love to know thankyou Kerry

  • greg
    May 2010

    Thats not how you make hollandaise! You need to prepare a reduction of white wine vinegar to go with the lemon..:( no matter what you say, the real (ORIGIANAL) RECIPE IS MADE THIS WAY. PEOPLE SHOULD STOP CHANGING THE ORTHENTIC RECIPE THAT GOES WITH ITS NAME.

    Mr professional chef

  • Gahanny
    March 2010

    I made this for breakfast and poured it over crusty bread with baby spinach, shaved parmesan and prosciutto with a poached egg on top. The sauce turned out beautifully. Just goes to show you don't have to go to alot of trouble. The one thing I did differently was I melted the butter before I added it. Turned out great.

  • Tracey
    January 2010

    I made this yesterday night. Im not sure how thick the consistency of hollaindaise is supposed to be but it turned out extremely thick, so thick in fact that it looked like extra thickened custard. what did i do wrong?

    • John
      March 2010

      On the tv show, she added water if it got too thick.

  • caragh
    January 2009

    my first attempt at this, well my first attempt at any kind of sauce in general. And it worked out fantastic. The other recipes are very complicated, but the way you describe having the head so low you can keep your hands on the pan, really really helped. Tasted great. Thanks so much

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