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Exceptionally Eggs - Eggs Benedict

Submitted by J @ JFN on Saturday, 15 November 2008

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As is the case with almost everything, there are many people that claim to have made this first, so many, in fact, that they all deserve to be ignored.

Ingredients

4 large fresh eggs

8 slices pancetta

2 English muffins, split in half

Method

Poach the eggs in water;
Grill the pancetta until crispy;
Toast the muffins on both sides
Top each muffin half with a poached egg and two pieces of pancetta and then pour over the hollandaise sauce.

Grill for thirty seconds and serve immediately.

HOLLANDAISE SAUCE

There is nothing difficult about Hollandaise sauce so here’s one - the method is a tad unusual, but the results are really great.

Ingredients

2 large egg yolks

2 teaspoons lemon juice

2 teaspoons white wine vinegar

110 g butter

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method

Put the eggs in the blender with the seasoning and blend for about one minute.
Heat the lemon juice and the vinegar in a small pot until it starts to simmer at which point it is poured into the blender in a very thin and slow trickle while the blender is running.
Melt the butter in the same small pan and pour this into the running blender in a thin, slow trickle.
The resulting sauce is thick and buttery and delicious.

I was looking for a place to eat Eggs Benedict on Saturday morning - ended up going to De Capo on Shortmarket street, Green Market, Cape Town. Not only did they not have, after telling us they do. They totally messed up everything. 3/5 people ended eating the rest either did not get their food or had to cancel it because it was wrong. Also, the 3 person to get her food, onlt got it 15miunutes after the 1st two had theirs… Totally messed up. Awful experience, I will never go there again.

This looks great btw

- 17 November 2008 at 12:05 pm

J @ JFN (author) said:

I am busy working on a list of stockists for a few cities in the world and will ask our webmaster if we could, somehow, find a way to include really bad restaurants. They are my personal bugbear as well and I really have an issue with it.

- 17 November 2008 at 3:46 pm

Sam Sotiropoulos said:

“Jacoba’s Global List of Restaurants to Avoid” I love it! And the Eggs Benedict too. Nice trick with the warming of the lemon juice and vinegar, but where is the butter??