Recipe of the week: Eggs Benedict

Eggs Benedict was invented at Delmonico’s — America’s first restaurant — in the late 1860s by Chef Charles Ranhofer. The dish, which was named for a regular Delmonico’s patron at the time, Mrs. LeGrand Benedict, consists of warm toasted brioche rounds topped with proscuitto cotto, poached eggs, Hollandaise sauce, and an elegant touch of Osetra caviar.

Ingredients

Eggs Benedict

12 ¾ inch thick slices of brioche cut into rounds
3 tablespoons unsalted butter –room temperature
¼ lb. prosciutto cotto thinly sliced (cut into rounds the same size as brioche)
¼ cup white vinegar
12 poached eggs
Hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce

4 egg yolks
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Dash Tabasco sauce
Dash Worcestershire sauce
½ cup clarified butter
Salt & pepper to taste
1oz Osetra caviar

Directions

Hollandaise sauce

Whisk egg yolks, lemon juice, Tabasco sauce, Worcestershire sauce in a stainless steel bowl over a double boiler of lightly simmering water…