"Diet" Bearnaise sauce recipe anyone

[JMT]

Does anyone have any recipe of something that tastes like real Bearnaise but with less/no butter? I really like Bearnaise sauce and steak but I am aiming to loose a few kgs and therefore sauces with a bunch of butter/eggyolks or lots of cream etc will have to go for a while.

If no one has any I guess I'll just have to experiment a bit.

[jgm]

I just went to www.cookinglight.com and searched the recipe database for 'bearnaise'. It produced two hits; one was a beef and potato salad with bearnaise sauce, and the other was just a recipe for bearnaise sauce. The one person who reviewed it didn't like it at all, but I would suggest you take a look at it and see what you think. The reviews on the Cooking Light website are often right on target, but sometimes are a reflection of the reviewer's cooking skills and quality of ingredients. It would be a starting point, anyway.

Do let us know if you come up with something really good!

[paulraphael]

I would aim for making it intensely flavored, with very high quality butter. Then just use half as much of it.

Notice that the French were all skinny before mcdonald's showed up.

[Carlovski]

I would aim for making it intensely flavored, with very high quality butter. Then just use half as much of it.

Notice that the French were all skinny before mcdonald's showed up.

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Beat me to it - that's exactly what I was going to say, best way to make something half fat is to have half as much!

If you really want the luxurious taste of a proper bearnaise, then I can't see how to do a low fat version, but if you just fancy a sauce with the flavour of tarragon you could probably do something by deglazing the pan and adding some low fat creme fraiche and some tarragon.

[chefdavid321]

I used to work with a girl who told me about making a hollandaise out of silken tofu. I don't know how, and i'll try and track her down to ask, but maybe you can work with it.

[infernooo]

I have found Ming Tsai knows his French food, and he made something similar on one of this shows... perhaps try converting this hollandaise to a bearnaise ?

http://www.ming.com/simplyming/showrecipes.../Holandaise.htm

[prasantrin]

I have found Ming Tsai knows his French food, and he made something similar on one of this shows... perhaps try converting this hollandaise to a bearnaise ?

http://www.ming.com/simplyming/showrecipes.../Holandaise.htm

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Interesting. I'm going to have to try this on eggs benedict soon, though I'm a little afraid. If you only use 1/4 cup of the sauce per serving, it's only about 2 WW points! Still a lot if you factor in the egg, ham, and English muffin, but not so bad if you compare it to real hollandaise.

[JMT]

Thanks for the tips, if I really get a craving maybey I'll have to settle for intensly flavoured and use less, the recipe using seems interesting, going to try that.

[Daniel]

That reminds me of the joke

Q:What has less calories then a sandwich?

A:A half a sandwich..

I dont know if it would be worth it to do a diet bernaise sauce.. Just skip it all together and have potatoes tossed in tarragon vinegar or just tarragon something. But really, use bernaise and use half the amount you normally would.

Edited September 15, 2008 by Daniel (log)

[paulraphael]

That Ming Tsai recipe looks like a cruel joke. The butter is replaced by two completely flavorless ingredients. This is what I think of as the cuisine of self-punishment.