Ingredients & Preparation for Making Hollandaise Sauce

Hollandaise Sauce

Ingredients

• Unsalted butter
• Ground white pepper
• Salt
• Lea & Perrins sauce
• Chicken egg yolk
• Lemon juice
• Ground Cayenne pepper
• White vinegar

Method 

• Combine the white pepper, salt and vinegar in a suace pan and reduce until nearly dry (au sec). Remove from heat. Add a bit cold water.
• Pass the diluted reduction throught a fine strainer into a stainless steel bowl.
• Add the egg yolk to the mixture bowl and beat well.
• Hold the bowl over a hot-water bath and continue beat the yolks until they are thickened and creamy.
• Remove the bowl from heat. Using a whisk, slwply and gradually beat and pour slowly the warm clarified butter. Add the butter drop by drop and continously beat the mikxture until it becomes thick. Drop a lemon juice and Lea & Perrins sauce into it.
• Season to taste. The hollandaise sauce must be thick and creamy.