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

It’s also delicious steamed with a poached egg and hollandaise sauce.

From Salon • May 14, 2025

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

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