How To Cook Eggs Benedict At Home: Step By Step Recipes + Photos And Videos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

How to cook eggs Benedict?

Eggs Benedict is an exquisite English recipe included in the list of the best classic breakfasts in world history. Hot buns with poached eggs, toasted bacon, and thick hollandaise sauce can be prepared in several ways.

Content

• 1 Eggs Benedict: the history of the dish

• 2 Preparation according to the classic recipe

  • 2.1 General recommendations
  • 2.2 Step by step instructions

  • 2.3 How else can you make a poached egg required for a dish

    • 2.3.1 In film
    • 2.3.2 In a multicooker
    • 2.3.3 Video: How to Make the Perfect Poached Egg - Lesson from Jamie Oliver
  • 2.4 Hollandaise sauce
  • 2.5 Video: eggs "Benedict" - cooking at home

• 3 How to diversify a traditional dish

  • 3.1 Recipe from Jamie Oliver
  • 3.2 Video: Yulia Vysotskaya's version
  • 3.3 Video: The Restaurant Chef's Version
• 4 Tips from hostesses from forums

Eggs Benedict: the history of the dish

There are two known versions of the birth of this popular dish. One of them was told by broker Benedict. According to him, in the early morning of 1984, fleeing a hangover, he inadvertently went to the hotel, where he ordered eggs with ham, bread and hollandaise sauce. Having appreciated the originality of such a dish, the restaurant manager decided to introduce it to the menu, while replacing it with toasts with regular ham, served at the table for breakfast and lunch.

Another version of the story says that eggs "Benedict" were invented by the chef of a New York restaurant for the Benedict family, longtime clients of his institution.

Despite the most varied disputes and discussions, to this day the dish is rightfully considered traditionally French. It was in France that they began to cook it from poached eggs and Dutch sauce.

An original breakfast made from simple products

Classic recipe

General recommendations

When preparing a dish, some subtleties must be observed:

1. It is very important that the ingredients for a gourmet breakfast are of good quality. Eggs should be chosen fresh, preferably of selected varieties.
2. You can use baguette croutons instead of regular buns.
3. It is better to fry the ham in a skillet without oil - this will make it crisper.
4. After the dish is completely ready, it is better to serve it immediately. Hollandaise sauce is supposed to stay hot.

Step-by-step instruction

Ingredients:

• round bun - 1 pc.;
• bacon - 1 plate;
• fresh egg - 1 piece;
• vinegar - 1 tsp;
• salt, herbs (to taste).

Algorithm of actions:

1. Carefully cut a round bun into two halves.

   

   It is better to dry the buns, they should be crispy

2. Place the bacon toasted until crisp on the bottom.

3. Break a raw egg into a clean container (bowl or deep plate). An important detail is that the yolk must remain intact.

   

   The yolk must not be damaged

4. Pour water into a small saucepan, add a little salt and a spoonful of vinegar, put the container on the fire and wait until the water just starts to boil.

5. Reduce the flame and slowly pour the raw egg into the hot water.

   

   Use a slotted spoon or sieve to dip the egg into the water

6. After a few minutes, remove it from the pan and place it on the bacon bun.

   

   Remove the egg from the pan as soon as it is cooked

How else can you make a poached egg needed for a dish

In film

1. Grease the cling film with vegetable or butter.

2. Then it is supposed to break the egg into it and tie the film with a bag.

   

   Gently tie the edges of the film to prevent the egg from spilling out during cooking

3. After that, you need to dip it into boiling water. The egg should cook for four to eight minutes.
4. The finished product will need to be allowed to cool, and then cut the film.

In a multicooker

1. Prepare silicone baking dishes by greasing them with oil.
2. Place in a multicooker, then pour one egg into each.
3. After adding two glasses of hot water to the appliance, cover the tins with foil and turn on the "Steam" mode. The eggs are ready in four minutes.

Video: How to Make the Perfect Poached Egg - Lesson from Jamie Oliver

Hollandaise sauce

Ingredients:

• butter - about 120 g;
• egg yolk - 2 pcs.;
• lemon juice - 1 tsp;
• salt, pepper (to taste).

Algorithm of actions:

1. Melt a large piece of butter in a saucepan over a water bath. When the mixture is smooth, remove the container from the stove and cover with a lid.

   

   Wait for the oil to turn into a homogeneous mass

2. In any heat-resistant container, beat the egg yolks well, gradually pouring cold water into the mixture. Continue doing this for thirty seconds.
3. Place the resulting mass of yolks in a water bath. The container should only touch the bottom of the water, do not immerse it too deeply.
4. Begin to actively beat the mass again. When the sauce has thickened, you can remove the container from the stove.

5. Add the previously cooked oil to the mass, then lemon juice, salt and a little ground pepper.

   

   Beat the mass until it becomes thick

6. Pour the warm mixture over the poached egg and bacon on the bun, add the herbs and serve.

Video: eggs "Benedict" - cooking at home

How to diversify a traditional dish

The original classic recipe for Benedict eggs can be varied in several ways:

• The Irish recipe for this dish suggests using corned beef instead of ham.

  

  Corned beef gives the dish a slightly different taste

• It is allowed to replace the bun with biscuit, ham with sausage, and hollandaise sauce with mayonnaise or garlic sauce. Instead of the poached egg required according to the classic recipe, fried eggs are prepared. In the United States, this dish is called "country Benedict" or "Beauregard eggs".

• It is not forbidden to prepare a dish according to a recipe according to which, instead of ham, bread is supplemented with asparagus and crab meat.

  

  Asparagus and crab meat make the dish taste more sophisticated

• Another option for making Benedict eggs is croque-madame: instead of Dutch sauce for the dish, in this case, ordinary cheese is used.

  

  If you can't make hollandaise sauce, you can use cheese

Recipe from Jamie Oliver

1. Turn the oven on to preheat.
2. Put a skillet over medium heat, add a little olive oil.
3. Chop the green onion finely and place in the skillet.
4. Combine the spinach with chopped nutmeg, then add some sea salt and a pinch of pepper. Transfer everything to the onion.
5. Keep the mixture on fire until the ingredients are completely browned. The excess liquid should evaporate.
6. Season with lemon juice in a skillet. After finishing cooking, place the mixture in a warm place.
7. To make hollandaise sauce, take a small saucepan and melt a lump of butter in it.
8. Place the whole egg yolks in a heatproof bowl, pour in the juice of fresh lemon and add a tablespoon of mustard.
9. Beat the mixture well. Then place the bowl over the boiling water in a saucepan, then continue whisking.
10. Gently pour the butter you made into the egg mixture. You can add a little water to make the sauce thinner.
11. Add a little vinegar, mix everything thoroughly again and turn off the heat.
12. Brown the buns in the oven or cook them using a toaster.
13. Cook the poached eggs in cling film, adding a few drops of truffle oil, a pinch of fresh herb or tabasco to the bag.
14. Place greens, ham and eggs on each half of the cut bun.
15. Finish off by drizzling with warm hollandaise sauce.

Video: Yulia Vysotskaya's version

Video: version from the restaurant chef

Hostess tips from forums

This is how easy it is to prepare a delicious and original dish - eggs "Benedict". Now you know how to please yourself and your loved ones with a breakfast of a real aristocrat.