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Bearnaise sauce with vegetable oil and lower fat content and salmon pate en croute ©️ Nel Brouwer-van den Bergh

Béarnaise sauce with a heart healthy streak

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Sauce
Cuisine American, Belgian, Canadian, French

Ingredients
  

Ingredients to make the gastrique

  • 1/4 cup white wine vinegar
  • 1/2 cup white wine
  • 1/2 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 tbsp tarragon
  • 1 small shallot
  • 1 tsp sea salt or kosher salt
  • 1/4 tsp ground pepper

Ingredients for the oil phase

  • 0.7 oz (20 g) butter fat
  • 2.8 oz (80 g) sunflower oil

Other ingredients

  • 4 egg yolks (total 2.4 oz or 70 g)

Instructions
 

Instructions to make the gastrique

  • Dice the shallot.
  • Heat the olive oil in a small pan and glaze the shallot at medium fire for 5 minutes.
  • Add the vinegar, the wine, the tarragon and add the salt and pepper
  • Let simmer for 15 minutes with the lid on (low heat) and then increase the fire a bit and take the lid off to let the vinegar and alcohol cook off a little. Aim to keep 3.5 oz (100 g) liquid left
  • Strain through a small sieve and press with a spoon the shallot/tarragon mixture in the sieve to release all its juices. Let the gastrique cool to room temperature and reserve

Instructions to make the oil phase

  • Melt the ghee and heat the sunflower oil to approximately 120 F (50 C) (a brief time in the microwave oven works) and mix together

Instructions to bring the sauce together

  • Bring egg yolks and gastrique to room temperature. Thereafter mix them in a stainless steel bowl with a whisk
  • Heat the bowl au bain marie under constant whisking. After a few minutes the temperature will approach 163 F (73 C) and the mixture will become thicker and more viscous. Continue whisking for a few tens of seconds, to whisk a lot of air in, but be careful not to over-heat.
  • Take the mixture off the heat source and place on a towel or something that insulates.
  • Under vigorous whisking start adding the oil, first drop wise, then in larger speed
  • The sauce becomes even thicker. Serve immediately

Notes

Method: au bain marie
Food allergy & intolerance information: egg yolk
Keyword butter sauce without the butter, Sauce, sauce based on tarragon vinegar, steak and salmon sauce