Hollandaise Sauce

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    , depending on what it is to be served with
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Simply Delicious: Book 1

By Darina Allen

Published 1989

  • About

Hollandaise is the ‘mother’ of all the warm emulsion sauces. The version we use here is easy to make and quite delicious with fish. Like Mayonnaise it takes less than 5 minutes to make and transforms any fish into a ‘feast’. Once the sauce is made it must be kept warm: the temperature should not go above 350°C/180°F or the sauce will curdle. A thermos flask can provide a simple solution on a small scale, otherwise put the Hollandaise Sauce into a delph or plastic bowl in a saucepan of hot b