Recipe: Eggs Benedict with Hollandaise Sauce

This is a recipe we make on weekend mornings when we want a fancy breakfast.  The whole family loves it! 

Ingredients:

1 hash brown patty/person eating (8)

Breakfast Sandwiches:

2 eggs/person eating 

1 E

nglish muffin/person eating

1 package ground sausage (1 LB) or Canadian Bacon or sliced ham

Hollandaise Sauce:

3 large egg YOLKS (remove from egg whites)

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 stick butter – cut in half, firm

1 teaspoon vinegar

Directions:

1. Brown sausage, Canadian bacon, or ham in a frying pan on medium heat.
2. Brown hash brown patties in a frying pan with a little bit of oil on medium heat.
3. Fill a medium saucepan with 3 inches of water and set on medium heat.  You want this to get to a simmering boil.
4. In small bowl, whisk together the 3 large egg yolks (having removed from the egg whites) and lemon juice.
5. Pour the egg yolk mixture into a small saucepan and heat on the lowest heat possible.  Add half of the stick of butter in and continue to whisk this mixture so that the butter is slowly melted into the Hollandaise mixture.  
1. If it ever starts to curdle, remove from heat and add 1 tablespoon of water or two and whisk quickly.  This has to be continuously stirred until serving as to keep the appropriate texture and temperature.
2. Add the other half of the butter in once the first half has melted.  
6. When there are 4 minutes remaining, add the vinegar into the boiling water.  Then add the eggs.  Only allow them to boil for up to 3 minutes and then scoop them out with a slotted spoon onto a warm plate.  They need to remain slightly undercooked to end up perfectly poached.  They will continue to cook after removed from the pan.   The goal is that they pour out when cut open.
7. Toast English muffins (just once, light toast only).  

Each person should have two English muffin halves on their plate, each topped with a spoon full of Hollandaise sauce, then sausage, Canadian bacon, or ham, then a poached egg, and topped with Hollandaise sauce.  The hash brown patty can be served on the side.  

Goes awesome with mimosas!