Eggs Benedict and Lox | Byron Talbott

Today I'm going to show you how to make a very simple salmon benedict. So first up get a pot of boiling water going and add one egg yolk to a small metal mixing bowl. Put that mixing bowl right over the top of the boiling water making sure that the water actually doesn't touch the bottom of the bowl and slowly start to incorporate your cold diced butter and some lemon juice with some sort of mixing device. Here I'm using a milk frother but you can use a whisk it'll work just fine. You're going to want to keep in mind that just remove this bowl from the pan every 15 to 20 seconds otherwise the egg yolks will scramble because that steam gets pretty hot. And once you've incorporated all your butter and the mixture is pretty thick remove it from the pan and you're going to season it with some salt cayenne pepper and tarragon and this is going to be the hollandaise topping for your benedict. All right so once you're done with the hollandaise sauce in that same pot of boiling water add some white wine vinegar and start to stir the water in a circular motion. Crack your first egg in straight in the center give it a few stirs and then crack your second egg in and continue stirring for about 15 to 20 seconds and this motion in the water is what's going to give that egg just that beautiful sort of uniform poached egg shape and leave these to cook for about three to four minutes. Once they're done cooking take them out of the water and put them onto a dry paper towel. All right so here I just have a simple mixture of baby spinach and shaved red onion dressed with some olive oil and lemon juice and this is going to basically bed the salmon benedict. I'm just going to put a little bit of this mix right on top of a perfectly toasted english muffin and then top this little salad mixture with a few slices of the cured salmon or gravlax and then top the gravlax with both of my poached eggs and then give a healthy portion of the hollandaise right on top of the poached egg and that's it guys. All there is to do now is enjoy this wonderful breakfast and start your day off right. I think this is pretty fitting to kick off breakfast week. This is my favorite breakfast. It's literally my favorite except this I'm using instead of smoked salmon because I think you usually get smoked salmon or lox. Oh all right we've had this debate a few times. Well then it's favorite dish. Favorite breakfast. You good? Yeah? All right. Oh my word. Dude this is bomb. Isn't that nice little like like onion and spinach salad? I don't know. The lox is a little salty you know so it kind of attributes to like that savory salty flavor throughout the dish. Yep. It's good. I definitely give it two thumbs up. What about you? 10 thumbs up. How much would you pay for that? 20 bucks? Probably 20 bucks. 20 bucks? It's pretty good. The spinach is really good too. Right? Makes me feel healthy. That's a nice. Right exactly. Well hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. I think this is a fun way to kick off this breakfast week and if you guys enjoyed this video please thumbs up and subscribe. Comment below for future videos and video requests. Things you want to see on my channel and I'll see you guys next time with another delicious recipe. Bye everybody.