Sauces & Condiments French

Sarah’s Famous Hollandaise Sauce

Egg yolks, lemon, mustard, hot sauce and melted butter become a fast blender Hollandaise: glossy, rich and the exact reason asparagus and poached eggs suddenly start acting upper-class.

Sarah’s Famous Hollandaise Sauce

What It Is

Egg yolks, lemon, mustard, hot sauce and melted butter become a fast blender Hollandaise: glossy, rich and the exact reason asparagus and poached eggs suddenly start acting upper-class.

Origin

Hollandaise is one of the classic French mother sauces, though its name points toward Holland. Food naming has always enjoyed being needlessly dramatic.

Fun Fact

Hollandaise is an emulsion: tiny droplets of butterfat are suspended in the egg-and-lemon mixture. Pour the butter too fast and the diplomatic summit collapses.

Prep
8 min
Cook
—
Total
8 min
Servings
6 tbsps
(assuming no one present is secretly a moose)
Difficulty
easy
Gluten-Free Nut-Free
Diet
Vegetarian, Gluten-Free, Nut-Free, Low-Carb
Away Mission
40 min walk
(Scotty says she cannae take much more of this, Captain)
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Ingredients

  • 4 egg yolks
  • ½ tsp dry mustard
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 dash hot pepper sauce
  • ½ cup melted butter
  • 1 tsp parsley

Steps

  1. Add egg yolks, mustard, lemon juice and hot sauce to a blender and blend briefly.
  2. With the blender running, pour in the melted butter in a slow steady stream until thick and emulsified.
  3. Top with parsley and serve warm.

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Notes

Raw or undercooked egg yolks can carry food-safety risk. Use pasteurized eggs if serving people at higher risk, and keep the sauce warm rather than letting it lounge around at room temperature like it pays rent.

Nutrition Facts
Per 2 tbsp
Calories 180
Burning this off: one Tragically Hip song, played loud, on a treadmill.
% Daily Value*
Fat 15.0 g 20%
Saturated + Trans 10.5 g 53%
Cholesterol 40 mg
Sodium 5 mg 0%
Carbohydrate 13.0 g
Fibre 0.0 g 0%
Sugars 12.0 g 12%
Protein 0.0 g
Potassium 10 mg 0%
Calcium 5 mg 0%
Iron 0.0 mg 0%
*5% or less is a little, 15% or more is a lot. Sodium levels calculated in a country with universal healthcare — and it's free, so don't worry about it too much.
A genuinely respectable nutrition profile. No red flags here — go ahead and feel a little smug about it.

Substitutions

Any hot sauce works in place of a specific brand. Dry mustard can be replaced with a small spoonful of prepared mustard if that's what's on hand. Lime juice can stand in for lemon in a genuine pinch.

Storage

Hollandaise is best served fresh. If you must hold it, keep it warm briefly rather than refrigerating and reheating repeatedly.

Freezing

Do not freeze this one unless your life goal is to watch an emulsion experience betrayal.