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FAQs
What can I put on my Eggs Benedict instead of hollandaise? ›
- Use red wine. For a heartier sauce (that's especially good with steak and eggs), reduce dry red wine and port instead of white wine.
- Make a cheese sauce. ...
- Brown the butter with capers. ...
- Add morels. ...
- Use avocado.
- Béarnaise Sauce.
- Dijon Sauce.
- Foyot Sauce.
- Choron Sauce.
- Maltaise Sauce.
- Béarnaise Sauce. Bearnaise sauce with fresh herbs and peppercorns - Food Impressions/Shutterstock. ...
- Avocado Sauce. ...
- Béchamel Sauce. ...
- Mornay Sauce. ...
- Sausage Gravy. ...
- Garlic Aioli. ...
- Choron Sauce. ...
- Sriracha Cheese Sauce.
- Poached Salmon. Silky poached salmon is a real crowd-pleaser topped with tarragon-spiked hollandaise. ...
- Broccoli. ...
- Asparagus. ...
- Bacon, Cheese and Scrambled Egg Sandwiches. ...
- Baked Turbot. ...
- Crab Imperial.
A descendant of hollandaise, béarnaise is a traditional French sauce with a thick, creamy texture and rich flavor. Built on a basic emulsion of egg yolks, butter, and acid, béarnaise differs from its Mother Sauce in two major ways: first is the source of acid.
What are the five basic sauces? ›The five mother sauces are hollandaise, tomato (sauce tomat), bechamel, Espagnole, and veloute. French chef Auguste Escoffier identified the five mother sauces, forever associating them with French cuisine.
What is a sister sauce to hollandaise? ›- Béarnaise = hollandaise + shallots + tarragon + chervil + peppercorns + white wine vinegar.
- Chantilly = hollandaise + whipped heavy cream. The tomato sauce is classically served with pasta, fish, vegetables, polenta, veal, poultry, bread, and dumplings such as gnocchi.
The five French mother sauces are béchamel, velouté, espagnole, hollandaise, and tomato.
What is a common mistake with hollandaise sauce? ›Hollandaise Sauce
One common hollandaise mistake is overcooking the egg yolks, and there's no coming back from that. But the most common problem is that the emulsion breaks, and you see streaks of liquid butter instead of a uniformly creamy sauce.
Sauce Bavaroise is hollandaise with cream, horseradish, and thyme. Sauce crème fleurette is hollandaise with crème fraîche. Sauce Dijon, also known as sauce moutarde or sauce Girondine, is hollandaise with Dijon mustard. Sauce Maltaise is hollandaise with blanched orange zest and the juice of blood orange.
What are the secondary sauces of hollandaise sauce? ›
- Bearnaise = hollandaise made with a white wine vinegar, tarragon, and shallot reduction.
- Mousseline = hollandaise + whipped cream.
- Maltaise = hollandaise + blood orange juice & zest.
You can use bearnaise sauce instead of hollandaise in eggs Benedict and eggs Florentine. This will give the dish a more savoury, herby flavour as opposed to the citrusy flavour in hollandaise sauce. Bearnaise sauce is also wonderful over vegetables. We love it with broccoli!
What other derivatives of hollandaise can be made? ›- Maltaise – Hollandaise, juice, and zest of blood orange (late-season fruit is best).
- Mousseline – Hollandaise, whipped cream.
- Béarnaise – Tarragon, white wine, and vinegar reduction, fresh chervil, and tarragon.
- Foyot – Béarnaise, reduced Espagnole, and brandy.
The Difference Between Benedict, Florentine and Royale.
Eggs Benedict is with ham or pancetta. Eggs Florentine is with sauteed spinach. Eggs royale is with smoked salmon. All three breakfasts are created the same, starting with a toasted English muffin, poached eggs and topped with hollandaise sauce.