Hollandaise Sauce – Keto and Low Carb

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Dress up your veggies with this smooth lemon buttery sauce, made in just a few minutes!

If you like Béarnaise Sauce, you will love this sauce!  Hollandaise sauce is very similar, but has no tarragon, only lemon juice.  It’s such a beautiful sauce, very thick and velvety!

I made some to serve over my Eggs Benedict, but you can also use this sauce over some asparagus or broccoli, if you’d like.

Hollandaise sauce is a very simple sauce made from egg yolks, butter and fresh lemon juice and is absolutely perfect for any veggie that you typically serve with a squeeze of lemon.  

What’s so nice about this sauce, is it has 18 grams of healthy fat per serving!  It’s the perfect Low Carb sauce to help dress up plain veggies!

How to Make Hollandaise Sauce 

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, unsalted and melted

4 egg yolks

juice of 1 lemon 

pinch of salt

Preparation

Heat a saucepan with water to a gentle simmer.  Add the egg yolks and lemon juice to a heat-safe mixing bowl.  

Whisk using a hand mixer (or whisk by hand) until the mixture has doubled in volume.  

Place over the boiling water  to make a double boiler and cook while whisking, for about 1 minute.  Then, very slowly stream in the melted butter while whisking.  

As soon as the sauce comes together, it’s ready!  It should be thick enough to coat the back of a spoon and stay separated.

Serve over my Eggs Benedict (recipe to come), asparagus or broccoli.

Note: If the sauce gets too thick, add in a tiny bit of hot water and whisk.  This should loosen up the sauce perfectly.

For a stronger lemon flavor, add some lemon zest to the sauce.

More Keto and Low Carb sauces…

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Easy Alfredo Sauce

Easy Cheese Sauce for Veggies

Bang Bang Sauce

Buffalo Cheese Sauce

Homemade Pesto

Buffalo Wing Sauce

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Hollandaise Sauce - Keto and Low Carb

Dress up your veggies with this smooth lemon buttery sauce, made in just a few minutes!

Author Keto Cooking Christian

Course Condiment

Prep Time 2 minutes

Cook Time 3 minutes

Total Time 5 minutes

Servings 6

Calories 174kcal

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter unsalted and melted
• 4 egg yolks
• juice of 1 lemon
• pinch of salt

US Customary - Metric

Preparation

• Heat a saucepan with water to a gentle simmer.
• Add the egg yolks and lemon juice to a heat-safe mixing bowl.  Whisk using a hand mixer (or whisk by hand) until the mixture has doubled in volume.
• Place over the boiling water  to make a double boiler and cook while whisking, for about 1 minute.  Then, very slowly stream in the melted butter while whisking.  
• As soon as the sauce comes together, it's ready! It should be thick enough to coat the back of a spoon and stay separated.  Serve over my Eggs Benedict, asparagus or broccoli.

Notes

If the sauce gets too thick, add in a tiny bit of hot water and whisk.  This should loosen up the sauce perfectly.

For a stronger lemon flavor, add some lemon zest to the sauce.

Nutrition Facts

Hollandaise Sauce - Keto and Low Carb

Amount Per Serving

Calories 174 Calories from Fat 162

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 18g 28%

Saturated Fat 11g 55%

Total Carbohydrates 1g 0%

Protein 2g 4%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

*All nutritional data is provided as a courtesy and is accurate to the best of my knowledge. I am not a certified Nutritionist, so if you are concerned about this data, please feel free to verify it using the nutrition calculator of your choice. All data is based on net carbs and does not include sugar alchol (Swerve/Erythritol).

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