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Hollandaise Sauce
by Tim Hayward from The DIY Cook
Tim Hayward explains how to make perfect Hollandaise sauce every time with this simple step-by-step guide. Once you’ve made this sauce, you’ll never settle for shop-bought.
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Introduction
As well as emulsifying, egg yolk thickens when heated. Think custards. By gently heating an emulsion sauce whilst beating, it’s possible to create something rich like a mayo and stable like a custard. Neither of these qualities in itself is enough to explain the regal sublimity of the hollandaise, a sauce which outranks the kingly mayonnaise simply by being made with melted clarified butter rather than any healthy vegetable oils.
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Ingredients
| 250g | clarified unsalted butter |
|---|---|
| 3 | egg yolks |
| lemon juice |
Method
Watch how to make the hollandaise sauce
Cut the butter into small dice, sprinkle on a plate and place in the fridge.
Make a bain-marie with a bowl over a pan of boiling water. Pour in the egg yolks and whisk them, regularly checking the temperature with a probe thermometer until they begin to thicken at 62 ° C.
At 62 ° C remove the bowl from the heat and begin whisking in the butter cubes a few at a time. The temperature will drop. As soon as the butter stops melting easily, put the bowl back over the heat and bring it back up to 62 ° C.
Once all the butter has been absorbed, whisk in lemon juice to taste, salt and a little black pepper.
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