Quick Béarnaise Sauce

Name: Quick Béarnaise Sauce
Yield: Serves Four-Six
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 2 shallots, finely chopped; 175 g (6 oz) unsalted butter; 1 tablespoon chopped tarragon; a squeeze of lemon; a pinch of cayenne pepper; salt; 2 egg yolks; 50 ml (2 fl oz) tarragon or white wine vinegar; ½ teaspoon crushed black peppercorns

Preparation info

Serves
Four-Six

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Keeping it Simple

By Gary Rhodes

Published 2005

About

Made in the same manner as the hollandaise sauce, this quick Béarnaise is more robust with a sharp tarragon taste and is perfect for accompanying grilled meats.

Ingredients

175 g (6 oz) unsalted butter
2 shallots, finely chopped

Europe
United Kingdom
Sauce
Dinner
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Spicy
England

Method

Melt the butter in a saucepan and simmer for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and leave to cool until warm. Alternatively, place the butter in a bowl, cover and microwave until just melted. The butter will now have separated, leaving all the milky white solids in the base of the pan or bowl and the clear clarified butter on top.
Put the shallots, peppercorns and tarr