Еggs benedict · The food is so different and delicious · Recipes

Eggs Benedict is a good option for Sunday breakfast. This dish is a poached egg with a delicate hollandaise sauce.

Ingredients (for 2 persons):

Chicken eggs – 2 pieces
Chicken yolk – 2 pcs.
Whole grain bread (or bun)- 2 slices
Butter – 3 tbsp. spoons
Cream 20% – 15 ml.
Lemon juice – 0.5 tbsp spoons
Vinegar – 1 tbsp. the spoon
Greens (arugula or any other to taste)
Nutmeg – pinch
Ground black pepper – to taste
Salt

Cooking process

1 Let’s prepare the base for our poached egg. In my case, this is whole grain bread, toasted in a toaster. You can use any bread you like. If you don’t have a toaster, simply toast the bread in a skillet.

Put any greens to taste on top of the bread. In the classic egg Benedict recipe, bacon is placed on the bread or half of the bun. But I want to suggest a lighter version – replace bacon with herbs.

2 Let’s move on to making the Hollandaise sauce. It is a warm sauce based on egg yolks and butter. It has a pleasant, delicate texture. And it just goes well with poached eggs.

Put a piece of butter in a frying pan and melt it. Make sure it doesn’t boil.

Separating the yolks from the whites – we only need the yolks. In a small saucepan, mix the egg yolks with cream, lemon juice and salt. Mix with a whisk or blender until smooth. Put the resulting mixture in a water bath. Gradually pour melted butter into it in a thin stream. In this case, it is necessary to constantly stir the sauce with a whisk. Cook the sauce for a few minutes over low heat until thickened. As a result, you should get a delicate uniform consistency. Finally, you can add a pinch of nutmeg to the sauce.

3 The most important step is the preparation of the poached egg. Pour water into a saucepan and bring it to a boil. We reduce the fire. Pour a spoonful of vinegar into a saucepan. Pre-break the egg into a small bowl or cup. We make a funnel in the water with a spoon and gently, as close to the water as possible, lower the egg into it. In this case, the gas should be at the minimum value. After 3 minutes, carefully remove the egg with a slotted spoon and place it on the prepared bread.

It remains only to pour the warm sauce over the egg – eggs benedict is ready. If desired, sprinkle with freshly ground black pepper on top. Bon Appetit!