Homemade hollandaise sauce is very easy to make using my method. It is great when freshly made with simple fresh ingredients, opting for good quality and organic ingredients if available like eggs, butter, lemon, and cayenne pepper.
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- ❓What is hollandaise sauce?
- 🥘 Ingredients to make hollandaise sauce
- 🔪 How to make the perfect hollandaise sauce?
- 💞Top Tips
- 🍽 How to make hollandaise sauce in Thermomix
- 🥣 More recipe tips
- 👩🏻🍳 Recipe FAQs
- 🍳Recipes Hollandaise sauce will work fabulously with
- 📋 Other recipes you may enjoy
- ⭐ Did you like this recipe?
- 📖 Hollandaise Sauce - Easiest Homemade Recipe
❓What is hollandaise sauce?
It’s a butter sauce. A creamy sauce that is an absolute classic sauce, a must-have for any egg breakfast or brunch. It goes perfectly drizzled over some perfectly poached eggs or egg Benedict, asparagus, and many other vegetables. A delicious finishing touch for many dishes like a poached egg, salmon, and asparagus-like this one.
It might look like hollandaise sauce is a fancy sauce difficult to make. Well, let me break the good news to you, it is not. Not at all.
All you need is 5 ingredients and 5 minutes. It's the easiest recipe you've ever made, guaranteed.
- This recipe will never fail if you follow these tips
- You will never buy hollandaise sauce again.
You'll have the best hollandaise sauce there is with the finest ingredients in, guaranteed!
Hollandaise sauce isn't a sauce you would eat every day but hey, eggs Benedict, fish without it? It is a culinary sin!
Check out my healthy mayo recipe too!
🥘 Ingredients to make hollandaise sauce
There are only 4 or 5 ingredients that are needed to make this yummy sauce and these are:
- eggs - the fresher the better and I always use organic free range - they look and taste amazing
- butter - organic salted or unsalted butter - if using salted butter, no salt should be added
- mustard - any mustard you like - I use French or English mustard
- lemon - it is a very important ingredient in this recipe
- cayenne pepper - of course, optional for a little kick 😉
🔪 How to make the perfect hollandaise sauce?
I always use a hand blender or an immersion blender which really makes it all so easy. You may use a blender too but it’s more washing to do 😉
To make this hollandaise sauce it simply takes 2 steps:
- Melt the butter - this is an important step
- Put all the other ingredients (egg yolk, lemon juice, salt, cayenne pepper, and mustard) all in one mug (I use a bigger one) blend for literally 5 seconds, and then pour in the hot butter in three slots or stream in.
Tada!! The hollandaise sauce is ready to go on your meal! I told ya it’s that easy! 👍🏻
💞Top Tips
To reheat this hollandaise sauce when taken out of the fridge I always place the jar into a container (bowl) and add boiling hot water. Please be careful not to do this with the sauce jar coming straight out of the fridge. Allow this to rest 15-20 min outside to get to room temperature first.
🍽 How to make hollandaise sauce in Thermomix
- 4 egg yolks
- 130g unsalted butter or salted but then no salt should be used
- juice from ½ lemon
- salt and pepper to taste
Method:
- Insert butterfly.
- Place all ingredients into TM bowl and cook 8 mins 90 degrees speed 3.
For this method, cold butter is fine to use and it works just fab.
Cook's recommendations and tips
- use organic ingredients as much as possible
- the butter must be more than warm (on the hot side) melted 1 min in the microwave or whatever it takes on the stove;
- if your butter is unsalted, add ¼ teaspoon salt;
- this sauce it’s not suitable for freezing.
🥣 More recipe tips
- if you want the sauce slightly runnier add some warm water when almost finished blending
- adjust the salt (if not using salted butter) and the lemon if you like more flavor
- the more lemon you add the lighter the sauce will become in colour
👩🏻🍳 Recipe FAQs
It’s best to make and serve this fresh but you can store this in the fridge in a small jar for 3-4 days.
Reheating the hollandaise sauce it's also very easy. I normally place the jar the hollandaise sauce is in, in a larger mug or bowl containing hot water.
If you are in a hurry, microwave it for 15-20 seconds - another great band quick option.
The answer is yes! If you want to make hollandaise sauce, but you don’t have fresh lemons at home, substitute it with one tablespoon of white wine and one tablespoon of cider vinegar.
It can be very annoying or quite stressful when your hollandaise sauce turns out either too runny or when it splits. Oh no!!
Oh yes!! Do not fret, honestly! This is easy to fix and it is not one of those things that are easier said than done. It is an easy task to fix it!
Here is how to fix it:
The hot melted butter is the key to getting the consistency right - The butter (I repeat because it is paramount) needs to be streamed in HOT. Just warm/melted butter will not work. You will get a not-so-nice split hollandaise sauce.
You can bring your sauce back to life.
1) Blend in one or two tablespoons of boiling water - blend this while mixing gently until the consistency is right.
2) Add an extra egg yolk - while the blender is on, add an extra egg yolk and blend until it becomes that dreamy creamy.
🍳Recipes Hollandaise sauce will work fabulously with
- Prawn radish and cucumber open sandwich
- Healthy potato salad
- Bacon and eggs Dutch baby pancake
- Eggs, Spicy Lamb Koftas And Salad Boats
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📖 Hollandaise Sauce - Easiest Homemade Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 egg yolks organic
- ½ cup salted butter cubed and melted
- 1 tablespoon lemon
- 1 teaspoon mustard I always use Dijon for extra flavour and spice
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper
Instructions
- Melt the butter and make sure it’s on the hot side and not just melted.
- In a taller glass or mug (the bottom must be wide enough for the blender to sit/reach right at the bottom of it), add all the ingredients egg yolks, lemon juice, mustard and cayenne pepper. Turn the bender on and blend for 5 seconds or so.
- Drizzle in the butter slowly in a little stream or just add it in 3 slots at an interval of 20 seconds while blending continuously. Move the blender up and down a few times. Once all of the hot butter has been added blend for 10-15 more seconds and it’s done!
Sabrina says
Yum
Ramona says
Glad you liked it Sabrina 😉
Kari Alana says
Hollandaise is so lovely and useful and tricky to get right. Happy that you shared this.
Gail Montero says
I love hollandaise sauce but have never tried to make it at home. Now I can make it with this tasty recipe!
Emily says
I love making homemade eggs Benedict for my family and this hollandaise sauce was perfection!
Kushigalu says
I have never heard of this sauce before. Sounds wonderful. Would love to try it with salads And sandwiches thanks for sharing
Mirlene says
I love hollandaise sauce but have not tried to make it in such a long time. Seeing this post help me remember how much i miss it. I am looking forward to trying it soon.
Jacqueline Debono says
Hollandaise sauce always makes me think of eggs benedict even though I know there are other ways to use it. Yours looks perfect. Can't wait to try it!
Leslie says
This looks like the perfect hollandaise sauce recipe! I really like hollandaise on breakfast sandwiches so I'll have to give this a try!
Lesli Schwartz says
Such creamy goodness in the hollandaise sauce! Can't wait to use this on my eggs, veggies, etc. So many options!
Ramona says
Thank you Lesli, it is really good indeed and super easy and quick to make.
Alexis says
This was the first hollandaise sauce I've been able to successfully make and it was delicious.
Ramona says
Thank you so much Alexis! I am so glad this has worked for you, so simple, right?
I am sure you will not be buying hollandaise sauce ever again 😉
Chef Dennis says
homemade hollandaise is so much better than using fake or instant hollandaise. The flavor was magnificent and my family loved it served over asparagus!
Ramona says
It is so much better than any bought hollandaise sauce, I totally agree.
Beth says
I'm so happy to see the words "hollandaise" and "easy" in the same sentence. And how wonderful that it uses the immersion blender and really just two steps. Can't wait to try it.
Ramona says
Thank you Beth, I am sure you will love it and never buy it again.
Maria says
I love hollandaise sauce but have never tried to make it. Thank you for the tips. I can't wait to try this out for brunch this weekend!
Ramona says
Thanks Maria, I am sure you will love it too.
Amy Liu Dong says
I love making a homemade recipe like this, perfect for me as my salad dressing. I will definitely saving and make this for the weekend vegetable salad treat for my family. Thank you!
Ramona says
Thanks Amy, it works so well for a drizzle on any veg salad too!
Stine Mari says
We often eat hollandaise sauce with fish sticks here in Norway! Next time I have leftover egg yolks, I'm definitely going to try this! I thought it was much harder to make a hollandaise from scratch, but this couldn't be easier.
Ramona says
It really is, isn't it, thank you so much dear Stine Mari xx
Marta says
Nothing beats hollandaise, except for this. It was smooth, full of flavor and easy to make.
Ramona says
Thank you so much Marta!