Avgolémono

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    400 ml

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Paul Gayler's Sauce Book

By Paul Gayler

Published 2015

  • About

One of the most popular and ubiquitous sauces in Greece, this lemon sauce is delicious served with meat and vegetables such as artichokes, leeks or asparagus. particularly like It with foil-baked cod steaks on a melee of butter beans, tomato and parsley, as in the recipe on the right.

Ingredients

  • 3 large free-range egg yolks
  • juice of 2 lemons
  • 2 teaspoons cornflour

Method

  1. Whisk the egg yolks and lemon juice together in a heavy-based pan, off the heat.
  2. Put the cornflour and water in a jar with a lid and shake until dissolved. Stir it into the egg yolks in the pan.
  3. Whisk the hot stock gradually into the eggs, a little at a time, until amalgamated, whisking constantly, then add the cream.
  4. Place the pan over a lo