There are exactly two reasons why restaurants think they can charge you $15 for an Eggs Benedict dish. First, they think you can’t cook eggs, but you probably can. Second, they want you to believe that Hollandaise Sauce is completely inaccessible to the home cook.

Have no fear! I’ve been making Hollandaise Sauce for years and years. (It even made me some money back in the day!) But, it’s true that I still screw it up sometimes.

That’s why I love this Sous Vide Hollandaise Sauce so much. It is actually impossible to screw up and is reason enough to dive into the world of sous vide cooking. I actually TRIED to screw up this sauce and still couldn’t do it.

I tried cooking it for anywhere from 60 minutes to three hours. Worked. (Although I think 90 minutes is best).

I tried not shaking the ingredients at all before cooking it. Worked.

I tried not melting the butter before adding it. Worked.

I tried making it, letting it cool, reheating it, and re-blending it. Worked.

Once you try this Sous Vide Hollandaise Sauce, it seriously feels like a cheat code to brunch and you can easily host people without worry of broken or cold sauces!

Can you tell I’m excited? This is a must for Eggs Benedict Lovers!

Sous Vide Hollandaise Sauce

3.09 from 48 votes
Author: Nick Evans
Servings: 4 Servings
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time: 2 hours
Quit worrying about broken sauces during brunch! This Sous Vide method of making Hollandaise Sauce is fail-safe. This is about as close as guaranteed success in a recipe can come. A must try for Eggs Benedict Lovers!

Ingredients 

  • 1 tablespoon shallot, minced
  • ¼ cup apple cider vinegar
  • 4 large egg yolks
  • 8 tablespoons Land O Lakes® Unsalted Butter, melted
  • ¼ cup water
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • ½ teaspoon salt

Instructions

  • In a small sauce pan, combine shallot and apple cider vinegar. Bring to a simmer and simmer for 5 minutes then remove from heat and let cool. Measure out two tablespoons of the apple cider vinegar and add to a large mason jar.
  • Add egg yolks, melted (and cooled) unsalted butter, water, lemon juice, and salt to the jar. Tighten the lid and shake well.
  • Place jar in a sous vide water bath at 147 F˚. Cook for 90 minutes or up to three hours.
  • Remove jar when ready to serve and blend sauce with an immersion blender or transfer mixture to a standard blender and blend well to emulsify sauce.
  • Serve sauce generously over your eggs benedict recipes.

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Nutrition

Serving: 0.25cup | Calories: 264kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 27g | Saturated Fat: 16g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 255mg | Sodium: 304mg | Potassium: 50mg | Fiber: 0.1g | Sugar: 0.5g | Vitamin A: 960IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 34mg | Iron: 1mg
Course: Breakfast & Brunch, Side Dishes
Cuisine: French

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How to Make Sous Vide Hollandaise Sauce

The first step for this hollandaise sauce is option. I like to add some shallot to apple cider vinegar and simmer it for a few minutes to infuse the flavor into the vinegar and also reduce the vinegar slightly.

I’ve made this sauce a few times now which just skipping this step and it’s still delicious. If you have the time though it does add some good flavors.

Shallot vinegar - Sous Vide Hollandaise Sauce
Optional, but good.

You’ll need butter for this recipe! I like to use unsalted butter for it.

Ingredients - Sous Vide Hollandaise Sauce
Sauce Basics

Combine all your ingredients into a large glass jar. Ideally, if you have an immersion blender, make sure the jar has a wide enough top so your immersion blender can fit in it, otherwise you’ll need to transfer the sauce to a blender to blend. Not a bit deal, but an extra step for sure.

Jarred - Sous Vide Hollandaise Sauce
Trust me this works!

Cook the sauce for about 90 minutes at 147 F˚. As I mentioned, I tried this once at 60 minutes and also at 120 minutes and both times worked. I thought the 90 minute version was the best though.

Just know that when the sauce comes out of the sous vide bath, it will be separated. Have no fear. After blending it, it turns beautifully creamy.

Sous Vide Hollandaise Sauce

I fried up some standard eggs benedict fixings to go with my sauce!

Fixings for Eggs Benedict
Fixings.

I’m a big fan of hollandaise sauce and use it liberally!

Spooning Sous Vide Hollandaise Sauce

Does brunch get more perfect than this?!

The hollandaise sauce is the most complicated part of making eggs benedict and if you use this sous vide method it’s a no-brainer.

Sous Vide Hollandaise Sauce

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