Hollandaise Sauce

Hollandaise Sauce

Author: 
Chef Jim Coleman, Executive Chef at Normandy Farm
Prep Time: 
15 minutes
Yield: 
1 batch of sauce
Ingredients: 

4 egg yolks
Juice from 1 lemon
Pinch of salt
Dash of Tabasco® hot sauce
1 cup Plugrá® European-Style Butter, unsalted

Directions: 

1. Whisk the egg yolks in a metal bowl until they are pale yellow.
2. Squeeze in the lemon juice, and add salt and Tabasco sauce.
3. In a separate pan, melt the Plugrá Butter.
4. Make a double boiler by placing pot over a boiling pot of water. In the double boiler, whisk the egg yolk mixture vigorously (don't scramble the egg) until the yolks have thickened and you can see the bottom of the bowl between strokes.
5. Remove from heat and very slowly add (dribble) the Plugrá Butter into the mixture and whisk until the Plugrá Butter has thickened the mixture.