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Key facts
- Type
- Sauce
- Place of origin
- France
- Main ingredients
- Egg yolk , clarified butter , white wine vinegar , herbs
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Encyclopedic overview
Béarnaise sauce (/bɛərˈneɪz/; French: [be.aʁ.nɛz] ; Occitan: Bearnesa) is a sauce made of clarified butter, egg yolk, white wine vinegar, and herbs. It is regarded as a "child" of hollandaise sauce. The difference is in the flavoring: béarnaise uses shallot, black pepper, and tarragon, while hollandaise uses white pepper or a pinch of cayenne.
The sauce's name derives from the province of Béarn, France. It is a traditional sauce for steak.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “béarnaise sauce” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.