hollandaise sauce
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hollandaise sauce
First recorded in 1905–10, hollandaise sauce is from French sauce hollandaise “Dutch sauce”
Example Sentences
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Heather: You have to get the pommes soufflé — they’re like puffed-up french fries, and they serve them with hollandaise sauce.
From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2022
The extra butter can be used for cooking eggs or whisked into a hollandaise sauce.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 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
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