hollandaise

noun

hol·​lan·​daise ˌhä-lən-ˈdāz 

: a rich sauce made basically of butter, egg yolks, and lemon juice or vinegar

Examples of hollandaise in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Other dishes at brunch include more conventional but also puffy pancakes with French butter and maple syrup and Crab Benedict with crab cake, avocado, smoked trout roe and dill hollandaise. —Laurie Werner, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025

Appetizer specials include 3 Oyster Tempura Kaluga caviar with hollandaise, Sweetbreads risotto, Parsley risotto with beef jus and parmesan, and Salade au Fraises with spinach, strawberries, feta, and pecans topped with raspberry dressing. —Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025

Benedict and hollandaise require home cooks to know how to separate egg yolks from egg whites. —Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2024

For the benedict, use dinner rolls as the base instead of English muffins, top each of them with cranberry sauce, turkey slices, a poached egg, and lemony hollandaise. —Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024

Word History

Etymology

French sauce hollandaise, literally, Dutch sauce

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for hollandaise

• aldolase
• alleyways
• amylase
• anaphase
• anhydrase
• anyways
• arginase
• cabarets
• carriageways
• castaways
• catalase
• cellulase