How to Cook Crappie Eggs Benedict with the Best Homemade Hollandaise Sauce
Learn how to cook Crappie Eggs Benedict with the Best Homemade Hollandaise Sauce - an indulgent, buttery topping perfect for this crappie recipe you can enjoy to start your day.
Servings: 4 servings
Ingredients
Crappie Eggs Benedict
- 2 slices bacon, cut in small pieces
- 2 cups fresh kale, chopped
- ¼ teaspoon Tony's Creole Seasoning
- ½ pound crappie fillets, boneless (or fillets from 2 fish)
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar
Hollandaise
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 Tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 4 Tablespoons melted butter
- 1 Tablespoon Creole mustard
- 1 Tablespoon hot water
- ¼ teaspoon Tony's Creole Seasoning
Instructions
Homemade Hollandaise Sauce
- To make the hollandaise, combine the egg yolks, lemon juice, and salt to a blender.
- Blend on high for 30 seconds until combined.
- Adjust blender speed to low and slowly drizzle in the hot melted butter while blending on low speed. Add Creole mustard, hot water, and ¼ teaspoon Tony's Creole Seasoning and blend until it starts to get thick.
Crappie Eggs Benedict
- In a large skillet, cook the bacon over medium-high heat, turning until crisp. Remove bacon from the skillet and put on paper towel-lined plate.
- Transfer half of the bacon grease from the pan to a small bowl and reserve for later.
- Add the kale and Tony's seasoning and cook for about 3 minutes, stirring often. Remove kale from skillet, set aside, and keep warm.
- In that same skillet, add the reserved bacon grease and cook the crappie fillets over medium-high heat for 2 minutes on each side. Remove from heat.
- Add a pinch of salt and the vinegar to the boiling water. Use a slotted spoon to stir a whirlpool into the water.
- One at a time, drop TWO of the eggs into the center of the whirlpool and let them cook for 2 ½ minutes. Use the slotted spoon to carefully life the eggs out of the water. Repeat the process with the other two eggs.
- Divide the cooked kale among four plates. Top with bacon, then a cooked crappie fillet, and then an egg on top of that.
- Pour on the homemade hollandaise and serve!
