Name: Grilled Sole with Hollandaise
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 3 lemons, halved; a bunch of flat-leaf parsley; freshly ground black pepper; olive oil; sea salt; 2 tbsp white wine vinegar; 6 egg yolks; juice of 1 lemon; 350 g butter; 12 sole fillets

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

The French Kitchen

By Joanne Harris and Fran Warde

Published 2002

About

Sole is a delicious, tender fish which needs very little to enhance it. (See for a note about sole.) Sole à l’Hollandaise is perfect – indeed hollandaise sauce is a perfect accompaniment to all kinds of fish, as well as making asparagus or green beans into an elegant vegetarian starter.

Ingredients

For the hollandaise

350 g butter
2 tbsp white wine vinegar
juice of

Method

First make the sauce. Melt the butter slowly in a saucepan. In a separate, small saucepan, heat the white wine vinegar and lemon juice until just boiling. Place the egg yolks in a jug and blend with a hand-held blender, then slowly add the hot vinegar and lemon juice. Then, just as the butter comes to the boil, slowly pour it into the egg yolks and vinegar, constantly blending until all the but