Vegan "Eggs" Benedict (30 Minutes!) (2024)

FAQs

Why is eggs Benedict so high in calories? ›

The calories come in the high-fat Hollandaise sauce. When you're eating out, going light on the sauce can help.

The Difference Between Benedict, Florentine and Royale.

Eggs Benedict is with ham or pancetta. Eggs Florentine is with sauteed spinach. Eggs royale is with smoked salmon. All three breakfasts are created the same, starting with a toasted English muffin, poached eggs and topped with hollandaise sauce.

Yo! Egg's poached vegan eggs are made from soybeans, chickpeas, and other plant-based ingredients like sunflower oil and potato starch. The brand utilizes all vegan, non-GMO, and gluten-free ingredients. Each plant-based egg yields 40 calories, 3g of protein, 0mg of cholesterol, and 2g of fiber.

The Bottom Line. Unless it's a whole-grain, nut-flecked, bursting-with-berries kind of pancake, I'd usually stick with eggs because they're more inherently nutritious and higher in protein than pancakes made with white flour. The protein will help keep you full longer.

Overall, shorter and lower-heat cooking methods cause less cholesterol oxidation and help retain most of the egg's nutrients. For this reason, poached and boiled (either hard or soft) eggs may be the healthiest to eat. These cooking methods also don't add any unnecessary calories.

So, what is the dish? Traditionally the dish is a toasted English Breakfast Muffin topped with Smoked Salmon, a soft poached free-range Egg, and some indulgent Hollandaise sauce. A real festive breakfast treat.

Eggs Benedict is a common American breakfast or brunch dish, consisting of two halves of an English muffin, each topped with Canadian bacon, a poached egg, and hollandaise sauce. It was popularized in New York City.

Hollandaise Sauce

One common hollandaise mistake is overcooking the egg yolks, and there's no coming back from that. But the most common problem is that the emulsion breaks, and you see streaks of liquid butter instead of a uniformly creamy sauce.

Most times what you're getting is snotty looking—and tasting—poached eggs, with questionable ham, and room-temperature hollandaise sauce,” he says. There are also safety concerns about this dish, according to Michelin-trained chef, Eddie Brik.

Should hollandaise taste of lemon? ›

What is Hollandaise Sauce? If you've never experienced the magic of hollandaise sauce, let me attempt to describe it to you. It's a very simple savory sauce made with butter, egg yolk, lemon, and salt. It has a smooth, velvety texture with just the right amount of bright lemon flavor to keep it from being too heavy.

This is where vegganism comes in. Vegganism is a trend among some vegans wherein eggs can be included in their diet if the vegan knows where the egg has come from and is certain that the hens have been raised in an ethical manner, or perhaps the vegan in question keeps chicken and eat their eggs.

Types of vegetarian diets

Lacto-vegetarian diets exclude meat, fish, poultry and eggs, as well as foods that contain them. Dairy products, such as milk, cheese, yogurt and butter, are included. Ovo-vegetarian diets exclude meat, poultry, seafood and dairy products, but allow eggs.

This equates to 320 calories, and 36 grams of fat (20 of them saturated) in the sauce alone. Tack on another 10 grams of fat for two eggs, and this is a very fat-heavy meal. In total, with one English muffin (264 calories), 4 tablespoons of hollandaise and two eggs, Eggs Benedict contains 728 calories.

One boiled egg contains approximately 78 calories and one poached egg has 71 calories. In contrast, fried eggs, scrambled eggs and omelets have the most calories at about 90. Why? These methods use cooking sprays, oil or butter, which can add 20 or more calories to your dish.

Most of these calories come from the yolk, which is the particularly nutrient dense part of the egg and includes many essential vitamins and minerals. Below is a list of full calorie values in various sizes of an egg.

Hollandaise sauce contains 85 calories per 16 g serving. This serving contains 9.1 g of fat, 0.9 g of protein and 0.3 g of carbohydrate. The latter is 0.1 g sugar and 0 g of dietary fiber, the rest is complex carbohydrate. Hollandaise sauce contains 5.4 g of saturated fat and 73 mg of cholesterol per serving.