Easy Hollandaise Sauce Recipe

Prep time: 5 min
Serves: 2

A stack of muffin, bacon and poached egg topped with a thick creamy hollandaise sauce has to be the ultimate in decadent breakfasting! For years I’ve put off making a hollandaise sauce because an easy hollandaise sauce recipe completely alluded me.  Finally, having recently mastered the humble poached egg, I decided to grow a pair and master a hollandaise sauce recipe. To my delight, whilst researching various hollandaise sauce recipes, I found an article by Felicity Cloake who had already done all of the research for me! Felicity had investigated and experimented with hollandaise sauce recipes from a variety of renowned chef’s and ended up with this amazingly easy hollandaise sauce recipe! If you want to read the article itself, take a look here, it really is very comprehensive.

This easy hollandaise sauce recipe comes from the kitchen of Harold Mcgee. So without further ado, here it is – Harold Mcgee’s easy hollandaise sauce recipe!

Ingredients for Easy Hollandaise Sauce

• 1 Egg Yolk
• 65g unsalted butter
• 1 dessert spoon of water
• 1 tsp lemon juice

How to make Easy Hollandaise Sauce

1. Put a pan on the lowest heat possible
2. Cut the butter up into cubes and add to a small saucepan with the water
3. Add the yolk to the pan and start whisking
4. Once the butter has melted, turn the heat up slightly and continue to whisk until the sauce has reached the desired consistency.
5. Add lemon juice, whisk a bit more and serve.
6. Yum !!

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