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

A creamy hollandaise sauce drizzled over eggs Benedict.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2022

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

David McMillan and Frédéric Morin, the joyously immoderate chefs who run the Joe Beef restaurant in Montreal, match seared scallops with pulled pork and hollandaise sauce.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2017

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