Hollandaise Sauce Ingredients

Hollandaise sauce is a tasty preparation of egg yolk and butter with some additional seasonings. You can have this delicious sauce with any foods you like or simply with chips. It looks like any other dip and is smooth and creamy in texture and is one of the best five sauces in French cuisine. It is traditionally eaten with all kinds of steamed vegetables and tastes the best with steamed asparagus. Hollandaise sauce ingredients are simple and easily available and if you like cooking it you can have it everyday for absolutely any meal. It is very durable and does not perish soon so even if you make and refrigerate it for 2 days the taste wouldn't change much. But I don't think you'd want to keep it for the next day! Read on to find out some yummy recipes for hollandaise sauce coming up for you.

Easy Hollandaise Sauce Recipes
Many people go in for buying the powdered form of hollandaise sauce but it is really simple and less time-consuming to make at home. This sauce can be eaten with vegetables, pancakes, meat and absolutely any other recipes you've made. Given below are some quick ingredients for hollandaise sauce mix which can be prepared in no time.

Recipe 1

Ingredients

• 4 egg yolks
• cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• Salt
• Cayenne pepper

Directions
In a large mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks and the lemon juice together vigorously till it is thickened well and more in volume. Place the bowl over a sauce pan which contains simmering water and continue whisking the mixture. Don't let the eggs get too hot or they will scramble, but while doing that, slowly drizzle the melted butter into the bowl and keep whisking. Now remove from the heat and add the cayenne and salt to taste. Cover it and if the sauce gets too thick, whisk it with some water till it turns to the desired consistency. You can also make this easy hollandaise sauce in a microwave. All you need to do is add all the ingredients in the bowl and whisk them properly and then add them to the microwave to get cooked.

Recipe 2

Ingredients

• 2 egg yolks
• 2 tablespoons cream
• 1 teaspoon white vinegar
• cup melted butter
• Salt
• Cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon of fresh lemon juice

Directions
In a large mixing bowl, beat the egg yolk, cream and vinegar and mix it well. Add the salt and pepper and then keep it in the sauce pan with low simmering water till it gets cooked well. Keep stirring it to get a smooth and soft sauce. Add melted butter in the bowl and keep stirring it to mix it with the other ingredients. After some time remove it off the heat and add the lemon juice to it before serving it. If the consistency is not soft and there are lumps in the sauce, you can blend the ingredients of hollandaise sauce in a blender to make it a paste. Then add some water to it and heat it in the sauce pan.

Hollandaise Sauce Uses
You can add it as a topping over eggs Benedict to have a simple yet filling breakfast. Using it with asparagus is the most common and perfect combination. It tastes equally delicious with white as well as green asparagus. Another yummy dish you can accompany the sauce with is fish and meat. Salmon and shrimp taste lip smacking with a heavy topping of this sauce. Baking mixed vegetables in a casserole which has a base of hollandaise sauce is the second most favorite recipe after asparagus. Green beans with cream and mushroom sauce already taste great, but just imagine hollandaise sauce with it!

With these mouth-watering steaming hot recipes for hollandaise sauce, won't you like to cook some, right away? Have fun cooking it and make sure you top it on the best dishes to make them even tastier!