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Purple sprouting broccoli with hollandaise sauce
Ingredients
- 2 egg yolks
- 450ml melted butter, ready in a jug
- 2 tbsp cold water
- lemon juice, to taste
- 350-400g purple sprouting broccoli
- salt and pepper
Method
Prep time:
5 min
PT5M
Cooking time:
15 min
PT15M
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Step 1
Put the egg yolks and water in a heatproof bowl that sits snugly over a pan of barely simmering water. Whisk until the volume has doubled and the mixture has thickened. Remove from the heat and whisk for 20-30 seconds. -
Step 2
Return to the heat and very gradually whisk in the melted butter, until the sauce has the consistency of double cream. -
Step 3
Stir in the lemon juice and season with salt to taste (if your sauce is looking a little thick as you whisk in the butter, adding a splash of the juice at an earlier stage can help). -
Step 4
Leave the sauce in the bowl, over the pan holding the water, but taken off the heat, to keep it warm while you cook the purple sprouting broccoli. -
Step 5
In a pan of boiling water, cook the purple sprouting broccoli for 3 minutes. Drain and season. Serve with a drizzle of hollandaise.