How to Make Simple Blender Hollandaise Sauce

Simple, Terrific, almost instant Hollandaise Sauce

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• One stick of salted butter
• Two Tablespoons lemon juice
• 3 egg yolks
• 1/4 Teaspoon of salt
• A few dashs of Ground Cayenne Pepper
• A blender

1. Separate the three egg yolks. (Not like the 3 Stooges either, nyuck,nyuck)
   Put them in the blender. Add 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, 1/4 teaspoon of salt and a couple of healthy dashes of Cayenne pepper. Give this mixture a quick blend for a few seconds to get the ingredients well mixed.

2. In a sauce pan, on the stove, melt the stick of butter. I like to cut the butter up in chunks to melt more evenly. Make sure you keep an eye on the butter. It needs to be bubbling hot, but don't burn it. (It will turn brown if you are burning it)

3. The boiling butter cooks the egg yolks in your mixture, so you want to be sure it is hot enough, but not burned. Remove the pan from the stove, start the blender on a moderate speed. Now slowly pour the melted butter into the blender. I usually count to 15, then stop the blender. Don't over blend the mixture.

Tips & Warnings

• My blender has a small stopper in the top that I can remove. I can pour the melted butter in without removing the whole top, keeping lots of Hollandaise sauce in the blender and off my cabinets and ceiling.
• Make sure you use the salted, sweetened butter.
• Experiment with the Cayenne pepper a little gives a nice zing to the recipe, too much and you will be sending me nasty emails.
• It is curious how friends show up Sunday morning, knowing Eggs Benedict is my routine. I swear a really good friend waits on the porch until he hears the blender stop.

[gillie60]

on 7/29/2009 I think I will try this with "I can't believe it's not butter lite". I use to make one from scratch that used a boquet garne for seafood dishes, iot is really excellant with salmon.

[kristara]

on 7/26/2009 Sounds delicious! Great recipe 5*