Lobster hollandaise

Lobster hollandaise

Servings 14 dishes

Ingredients

The apple cider reduction

  • 200 g white wine
  • 200 g apple cider
  • 2 sprigs thyme
  • 5 pepper grains
  • 3 kumquats

The lobster hollandaise

  • 140 g apple cider reduction
  • 4 g salt
  • 100 g egg yolk
  • 50 g cold lobster butter
  • 1 tbsp store bought mayonnaise

Instructions

For the apple cider reduction

  • First pour the white wine into a saucepan and also add the apple cider, the thyme and the pepper grains. Then cut the kumquats in half, add them to the pan as well and reduce this till it’s weighs 160 grams. Once it’s reduced pass it through a fine sieve. 

For the lobster hollandaise

  • For the hollandaise I use this lobster butter recipe.
  • Pour the reduction into a saucepan and season it with the salt. Bring this to a boil. When the liquid is boiling turn down the heat and while blending with a hand blender add the egg yolk. This will add a lot of air to the mixture, and you don’t need to beat it as long as normal. Then use a whisk to beat it for another couple of minutes on a medium heat till firm peaks are forming.
  • Then directly turn off the heat and add the cold lobster butter. Gently mix it till the lobster butter is incorporated. Now a small trick. By adding a tablespoon of store bought mayonnaise you can stabilize the hollandaise and reheat it without splitting it. The stabilizers in the mayo will prevent it from splitting.
  • Now pour it into a syphon and charge it with two charges. The syphon will make the hollandaise a lot firmer and with will hold it’s form a lot longer as well.
  • You can keep the hollandaise in your fridge for 3 days and once needed just place the syphon under a heat lamp or in a warm water bath to easily heat it up.

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