
Eggs Florentine
Eggs Florentine might be a good recipe to expand your main course collection.
- Servings: 4
- Total cooking time:
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- cayenne pepper, taste
- 11 eggs
- 4 English muffins, toasted
- Kosher salt, to taste
- 2 Tablespoons lemon juice
- 10 ounces spinach, sauteed
- 4 Tablespoons Hot water
Instructions:
- Saute spinach in a saute pan
- Poach 8 eggs and toast muffins. Top each muffin with spinach, then a poached egg.To make the hollandaise sauce, melt the butter and keep it warm, but not hot.
- Heat the lemon juice until just warmed. Have small saucepan with boiling water and a measuring tablespoon ready.
- Place the top of a double boiler over hot water.
- Place 3 egg yolks in the top of a double boiler and whisk until they begin to thicken. Now add 1 tablespoon of the boiling water. Continue to beat the sauce until it begins to thicken. Repeat with the remaining water, one tablespoon at a time, beating the mixture after each addition.Now add the warmed lemon juice.
- Remove the double boiler from the heat. Beat the sauce briskly with a wire whisk. Continue to beat the mixture as you slowly pour in the melted butter.
- Add the salt and cayenne and beat the sauce until it is thick.
- Serve immediately.


