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      Asparagus with hollandaise sauce and Iberian ham.

      A light but appetizing dinner without lighting a fire. Do you know the origin and how hollandaise sauce is made? Hollandaise sauce is an emulsion made with butter and lemon juice or vinegar, which uses egg yolks as an emulsifying agent. It is usually seasoned with salt and a little white pepper or even cayenne powder. It is a sauce of French origin whose name was given in homage to the victory of the French in the Franco-Dutch war. Hollandaise sauce is the main ingredient of eggs benedict. It is a sauce of a high degree of difficulty. To make it, clean egg yolks are diluted in cold water. It is beaten over heat in a bain-marie until a thick and frothy cream is obtained, which doubles its volume. Add the previously clarified and lukewarm butter, little by little and without stopping beating. Then add the salt, pepper and the juice of a quarter of a lemon and mix well. Sometimes it is believed that the hollandaise sauce should have a consistency similar to mayonnaise, but it should be clarified that this sauce should have a foamy consistency. It is kept at the heat of a bain-marie until it is used because it is very unstable. Ergo, it has to be served hot, because if it is left to cool it is cut. There are variants of the sauce that derive in others: Sauce maltaise (Maltese sauce). Flavored with orange juice instead of using lemon juice (or even a mixture with it). It is usually served with asparagus in traditional French cuisine. Sauce mousseline (mousseline sauce). A small amount of whipped cream is used in hollandaise sauce to lighten just before serving. Sauce noisette (noisette sauce). Butter is added to improve its flavor. Rachel sauce Taking the base of a hollandaise sauce, mustard, freshtarragon and black truffle are added. Muscovite sauce (also called caviar sauce). Based on hollandaise sauce, caviar is added. Cédard sauce. Based on hollandaise sauce, mushroom essence is added

      Dijon sauce. To which mustard is added.

      Translated from Spanish
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      Eduart Stafa, L. Fernando García Barrero and 3 others
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