Simple Tips On Making Your Own Hollandaise Sauce Recipe

I was tired of finding powdered mixes with all sorts of chemicals, I decided to try making hollandaise sauce on my own.

This is my very own hollandaise sauce secret recipe.

After much speculation, experimentation, here's what I've come up with (its an amalgam of a couple of different recipes)

Preparation:

1 small bowl (I used a glass one, it seemed to work better than a metal one)
1 small sauce pan (mine is copper-bottom, it distributed the heat better)
1 whisk (metal preferred)

INGREDIENTS:

3 egg yolks
1/2 lemon, juiced
1 teaspoon cold water
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 cup butter

DIRECTIONS:

In the small bowl, whisk together egg yolks, lemon juice, cold water, salt and pepper. Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat.

Gradually whisk yolk mixture into butter so that it won't curdle or get lumpy.

Continue whisking over low heat for 8 minutes, or until sauce is thickened - careful, it might burn if your heat is too high!.

Serve immediately or refrigerate.