Hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce is an yellow coloured sauce and is considered as one of the mother sauces.Actually it is an emulsion of egg yolk and butter, seasoned with lemon juice and salt along with a little bit of white pepper or cayenne pepper.Derivatives of hollandaise sauce are bearnaise sauce, vin blanc etc.

Hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce is so named because it was believed to have mimicked a Dutch sauce for the King of Netherland's state visit to France.It is a key ingredient of egg's benedict.Also used along with vegetables such as steamed asparagus.