Eggs Benedict for One or Two

Eggs Benedict is such an indulgence that I often do not get to have it until we exit someplace.  And I admit I’m fairly choosy about my hollandaise sauce.  I prefer it good and wealthy, on the thicker facet, and never “lemon sauce”!  I’ve had one restaurant that blew me away with a improbable hollandaise (to not point out stellar, thick slices of ham), whereas most locations are both meh, or nope, not price getting eggs benny right here once more.

This recipe will make a pleasant, diner sized portion of eggs benedict, sufficient to essentially indulge your self, or say break up with Nana who has by no means had eggs benny earlier than!  (After attempting it, she undoubtedly agreed that it was an excellent factor.)  In a second of eggs benny craving/desperation, I as soon as simply made the mini batch of hollandaise and poured it over an Egg McMuffin.  Maybe not the best second of culinary inspiration, nevertheless it positive did elevate the McMuffin!

This hollandaise is made like a stirred custard sauce.  Who desires to wash a blender for one particular person’s breakfast?  Pots are simpler to wash.  Word that this must be cooked very low and even on a double boiler, to make it come collectively silky clean.  Cooking too excessive will make it break and curdle and no person desires that.  Whisk, whisk, whisk, and low warmth till thickened, and it is going to be good!  

Perhaps depart the Canadian bacon for the quick food chains and spring for some good ham.    Bread base is admittedly as much as you, English muffins are the usual and my desire however since I grew up with poached eggs on toast, I’m not above utilizing toast in a pinch.  Truly, we discovered that bolo do caco makes a terrific in-between choice.

Eggs Benedict for One

One English muffin, break up and toasted, buttered if desired (It is okay to make use of toast in case you have no muffins.  It will not be the chewier, normal base of conventional eggs benny, however I do love poached eggs on toast.)

2 contemporary eggs, poached*

2-4 slices Black Forest ham or good sliced ham, warmed

Hollandaise
for one or two: 

1 giant egg yolk
3 tbsp butter, minimize in small cubes
1 tbsp water
½-1 tsp lemon juice, to style
pinch of
cayenne
tiny pinch of salt if desired (wanted if utilizing unsalted butter)

Place egg yolk right into a small chrome steel pot. Whisk within the water, lemon juice, salt, and cayenne pepper, then add the butter cubes. 

Place pot over low warmth. (Or use a double boiler).  Whisk continually till the butter has melted and the combination will get foamy, a couple of minutes. Proceed to prepare dinner and whisk over low warmth till the sauce reaches your required thickness, 3 to five extra minutes.  Sauce might be held, lined,  within the pot over very low warmth whereas ending the eggs and ham, or reheated proper earlier than assembling.  If the sauce will get too thick, skinny it with a number of drops of sizzling water.  (I like to recommend cooking the sauce just a bit bit much less thick than your desire and it’ll thicken completely whereas ending the eggs and ham, then give a fast stir to clean it out for plating and serving.)

*   To poach eggs:  Fill a saucepan with a number of inches of water, sufficient to totally submerge the eggs. Warmth the water to boiling, then scale back the warmth till the water is barely simmering.  One after the other, crack the eggs right into a small bowl or cup.  Gently slip the egg proper into the water from the cup.  Swirling the water in a circle earlier than including the egg might help give a extra pleasing form to the completed poached egg.

Add the entire eggs as rapidly as doable whereas nonetheless being light as they’re slipped within the water.

Flip off the warmth, cowl the pan, and let sit for 4 minutes.  After 4 minutes the egg whites must be utterly cooked, and the yolks nonetheless runny. 

(One single egg could take solely 3 minutes to be good, 2-4 will often be good at 4 minutes.)  Alternately, the eggs could also be saved at a low simmer, uncovered, for 2-3 minutes to the specified level. 

Toast as a substitute, in a pinch, nonetheless scrumptious!

Listed here are some extra E recipes:

A smaller portion works wonderful, there could also be slightly additional hollandaise!

Again in 2020…

My second of McDesperation.