- You’re probably most familiar with hollandaise sauce over poached eggs in Eggs Benedict, but it’s an incredibly versatile topping.
- Hollandaise sauce is perfect served with fish, eggs benedict and vegetable dishes. Try our easy to follow video recipe!
- Originally known as “sauce Isigny,” after the town of Isigny-sur-Mer in Normandy, France, the sauce gradually transformed into the now-familiar “hollandaise.”
- Take a quick peek at the video below featuring four mouthwatering recipes, and then keep reading for the full five ways to use Hollandaise sauce.
- Hollandaise Sauce is one of the great classic sauces of the world that’s notoriously hard to make by hand, even for seasoned chefs.
- Things to Know Before Making Hollandaise. Hollandaise sauce only requires three essential ingredients — egg yolks, butter and an acid of some sort.
- Hollandaise is one of those recipes that people get really intimidated about making. In fairness, making hollandaise sauce the traditional way can in fact be tricky.
- Learn how to make Hollandaise Sauce the traditional way, with a whisk! With a little patience, anyone can do it, and you’ll be so happy you did.
- Hollandaise sauce is most commonly used as the classic creamy, yellow, buttery topping used on top of eggs benedict at most breakfast diners.
- Hollandaise is an emulsion sauce: a sauce where two ingredients that don’t usually blend (water and fat) are suspended together.