Sauce Bearnaise

[UnConundrum]

Name of Recipe:  Sauce Bearnaise
Number of People:  4-6
Ingredients:
1 shallot (small, quartered)
1 tsp. tarragon (dried)
3 Tbsp. white wine
1 Tbsp vinegar (tarragon or red wine)
pinch salt
pinch black pepper
120 g butter
3 egg yolks
2 Tbsp. lemon juice

Preparation:
1.  Put shallot into the TM and pulse 5 times.
2.  Add tarragon, vinegar, wine salt and pepper.  Process at 100C at stir speed for 5 minutes with the cap off to allow evaporation.
3.  Insert butterfly and add remaining ingredients.  Process at 80C, speed 3 for 4 minutes.
4.  Press through a fine sieve and serve.
Photos:

Tips/Hints:
Can hold the sauce at 60C speed 2 for about an hour.

More pictures can be found  HERE

[brazen20au]

my goodness that's a hunk of meat! LOL (think that would feed my whole family with leftovers )

[UnConundrum]

LOL, my son is a growing boy   Keeps telling me I don't make him enough protein.  He didn't say that tonight

[brazen20au]

how old is he? i'm soooo not looking forward to feeding my 3 in 10-15 years time lol

[UnConundrum]

He's 27... pretty much on his own.  He's finishing grad school this year and was home between semesters...  The protein bit is just a joke as I'm always cooking, he's just not home.  Ongoing joke is that they don't have any supermarkets in the city where his school is.  That said, teenage boys eat like horses... never seem able to fill them

[Thermomixer]

LOL - hope real vegetarians don't get offended by the accompaniment to the sauce.    Maybe we should get a sauces section.

Nice piece of steak. 

Great to see you've hit the ground racing. 

[UnConundrum]

 I figured the picture would get a rise out of someone

[Paul]

I made this sauce tonight and it was delicious.  80 C is definitely the go for these egg and butter sauces - nice recipe

[jworth]

Oh wow this sauce is soooooooooo good  I feel like such a smarty pants for making this sauce. 

[Gralke]

thank you for this recipe - had overlooked it.

[meganjane]

This looks awesome. I love the way you refer to your 27 yo as a teenage boy!! Mine are exactly the same, one's 27, the other 25 and they eat me out of house and home when they're here! I love it too....

[cookie1]

Spoken like a true Mum.

[tonydav]

Tried this tonight. Tasted awesome, and more importantly tasted awesome to the wife (who's not a big steak eater).

She'd tried the avocado and bearnaise sauce steak at Hog's Breath and really liked it. I think this is as good, and on top of a "Cattleman's Cutlet" (with Avo) I think served up as good as the meal we paid $30/serve last week!

 I didn't strain ours as I like the taste of the chunks of shallot and also only used 1Tb of bottled lemon juice (I find it to be stronger in my experience that "real" lemon juice), but other than that followed the recipe to a tee.

[meganjane]

  I just realised that this recipe is in the Vegetarian section! Should have had a warning: Don't look at the picture!!

[Thermomixer]

Yes, think I mentioned to Warren before that I hope vegetarians don't freak when they see the picture.

Somebody said that one of the top restaurants here in Melb uses the TMX for Bearnaise - have to ask them for their recipe.