hollandaise sauce

American  

[hol-uhn-deyz, hol-uhn-deyz] / ˈhɒl ənˌdeɪz, ˌhɒl ənˈdeɪz /

noun

1. a sauce of egg yolks, butter, lemon juice, and seasonings.

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hollandaise sauce British  

/ ˈhɒlənˌdeɪz, ˌhɒlənˈdeɪz /

noun

1. a rich sauce of egg yolks, butter, vinegar, etc, served esp with fish

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Etymology

Origin of hollandaise sauce

First recorded in 1905–10, hollandaise sauce is from French sauce hollandaise “Dutch sauce”

Example Sentences

Viewers may emerge from “The Taste of Things” desperate to find a restaurant that serves a good vol-au-vent, a turbot in hollandaise sauce or the meringue-coated ice cream confection known as baked alaska.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024

Egg yolks plus butter make a dreamy hollandaise sauce to drizzle over poached eggs, Canadian bacon, and craggy English muffins.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2021

What generally stops people making eggs benedict at home is the hollandaise sauce, which is fiddly and prone to splitting and curdling.

From The Guardian • May 6, 2020

Or you may try an even more systematic approach: Pick one ingredient—say, lemons—and work your way through a dozen different ways of using it: ceviche, tabbouleh, lemon chicken, hollandaise sauce, lemon cake, lemon custard, etc.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2018

Large white hunks of this fish were carved out and put on to our plates, and with it we had hollandaise sauce and boiled new potatoes.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl