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

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

Whip up fresh hollandaise sauce in a blender and use it to drizzle over a craggy English muffin, poached egg, juicy tomatoes, and thick-cut bacon.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 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

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