🏷️ Category: lunch
⭐ Difficulty: Medium
⏱️ Time: 45 min
📝 Introduction
Elevate your lunch game with this luxurious Eggs Florentine recipe! Perfectly poached eggs rest atop toasted English muffins and sautéed spinach, all smothered in a velvety homemade hollandaise sauce. This restaurant-quality dish is surprisingly easy to make at home and delivers impressive nutrition - each serving packs 22g of protein and covers 31% of your daily vitamin needs. At just $2.12 per serving, this elegant meal proves gourmet dining doesn't have to break the bank. The creamy hollandaise sauce, made from scratch with egg yolks, butter, and lemon juice, adds a tangy richness that perfectly complements the fresh spinach and runny egg yolks.
🥘 Ingredients
• butter0.25 cup
• cayenne pepper4 servings
• eggs11
• muffins4
• kosher salt4 servings
• lemon juice2 Tablespoons
• spinach10 ounces
• water4 Tablespoons
👨🍳 Cooking Steps
1
Saute spinach in a saute panPoach 8 eggs and toast muffins
2
Top each muffin with spinach, then a poached egg
3
To make the hollandaise sauce, melt the butter and keep it warm, but not hot
4
Heat the lemon juice until just warmed
5
Have small saucepan with boiling water and a measuring tablespoon ready
6
Place the top of a double boiler over hot water
7
Place 3 egg yolks in the top of a double boiler and whisk until they begin to thicken
8
Now add 1 tablespoon of the boiling water
9
Continue to beat the sauce until it begins to thicken
10
Repeat with the remaining water, one tablespoon at a time, beating the mixture after each addition
11
Now add the warmed lemon juice
12
Remove the double boiler from the heat
13
Beat the sauce briskly with a wire whisk
14
Continue to beat the mixture as you slowly pour in the melted butter
15
Add the salt and cayenne and beat the sauce until it is thick
16
Serve immediately
