Keto Sauce Béarnaise. In the summer of 1972 in East Lansing, MI I had the opportunity to live in a house with 5 HRI (hotel, restaurant, & institutional management) students and I jumped at it. It was the responsibility of each of us, one day a week, to shop with $10.00, prepare a meal for 6, and all sit down together to eat. Talk about the good ole days-can you imagine feeding 6 college students on $10/day now? Someone made this recipe and I have been making it ever since. My only tweak has been the addition of the tarragon vinegar. The reason I like it is that it is made in a food processor rather than over a double boiler of hot water. This is so much much easier and pretty much full-proof if your butter is hot enough. The French make this sauce so much harder and as you can see, I now make it the old fashioned way.
The absolute secret to this particular Keto Sauce Béarnaise is the use of tarragon vinegar. I do add lemon juice to mine because I often enough serve it with seafood but I find the lemon juice goes with about anything. Good on a brick but better yet on a good steak or Stuffed Shrimp. Those are NOT potatoes in the two lower pictures. They are either Dilled Red Radishes or Daikon Radish Fries but they sure do act and taste like potatoes.
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- Ingredients
- 3 Large Egg Yolks Room Temperature
- 2 T White Wine
- 1 Stick Butter
- 1 Minced Nice Sized Shallot
- ¼ C Tarragon Vinegar
- ¼ C Water
- ½ t Dried Tarragon Leaves
- Pinch Cayenne Pepper
- ¼ t Tarragon
- 2 T Lemon Juice (Optional For When Using Sauce With Seafood)
- ¼ t Salt
- Start to slowly clarify butter-if you do it slowly it will not sputter & spatter and as it begins to clarify swirl the saucepan several times.
- Mince Shallot, add to vinegar & water, add ½ t tarragon and cayenne pepper and simmer ever so slowly. The idea is the get the minced shallot very soft. If you need more moisture add a bit more vinegar. When this is finished it should have just a little moisture left-maybe a T or so.
- Put egg yolks and white wine in small processor & add shallot mixture.
- Strain butter to get rid of the little cruddy buttons and immediately begin slowing pouring into running processor. It should thicken toward the end if your butter is hot enough so make sure you take butter from the stove, strain, and begin using immediately. The idea is that the very hot butter will “cook” the yolks and thicken them.
- Add lemon juice, (if using) last ¼ t tarragon, salt, and process. Taste and correct seasoning if necessary.
- 4 Servings
- 326 Calories, 2g Protein, 35.0g Fat, 1.5 Carbs, 0g Fiber, 1.5g Net Carbs