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This week on Good Chef, Bad Kitchen we watch as executive chef, Mimi Weissenborn makes homemade Eggs Benedict in a tiny NYC kitchen. She uses only the tools that can be found in this small apartment to create a classic breakfast dish. Press play to see if she can make this meal happen!

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Mimi Weissenborn's Eggs Benedict Recipe

Ingredients

For the biscuits:

1/2 cup cake flour
1/2 cup bread flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tablespoon salt
1/2 tablespoon sugar
5 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 egg

For the hollandaise:

4 egg yolks
2-3 tablespoons lemon juice
White pepper
1 cup butter, melted

For the poached eggs:
2-3 tablespoons distilled vinegar
4 eggs
Salt

For assembly:
Canadian bacon
Black pepper
Instructions

For the biscuits:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2.Cut butter into small dice and place in refrigerator.
3. Combine all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Using hands take chilled butter and start to incorporate into flour mixture, until all pieces have been broken down.
4. In a bowl combine buttermilk, heavy cream and eggs. Beat mixture together until well combined.
5. Add wet mixture into the dry, kneading the dough together ever so lightly until it comes together. Wrap dough mixture in plastic and let rest in refrigerator for a minimum of 30 minutes.
6. Roll out rested dough on a well floured surface, about an inch thick. Use a round or squared ring mold to cut the biscuits. Place on a parchment lined sheet tray.
7. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.

For the hollandaise:

1. In the top of a double boiler, whisk together egg yolks, lemon juice, white pepper, if you have it.
2. Add melted butter to egg yolk mixture, 1 or 2 tablespoons at a time, while whisking yolks constantly. If hollandaise gets too thick, add a tsp or two of hot water.
3. Continue whisking until all butter is incorporated. Whisk in salt, cover and store in warm place.
For the eggs:
1. Fill a medium sized pot with 3 inches of water, add vinegar and season with salt (to taste).
2. Bring to a simmer. Hint: it should never boil. Gently crack an egg into the center of pot, allowing the white to envelope the yolk. Check the eggs after 4 minutes.
3. Repeat steps with remaining eggs. Use slotted spoon to lift egg out of the water. The whites should be firm and the yolks still soft to touch; if the egg is still not quite done drop back in the water for an additional minute. When eggs have reached desired firmness remove from water and place on a paper towel lined plate.
4. Assemble your Eggs Benedict by cutting the biscuits in half, placing them cut-side up. Fry some Canadian bacon, flipping occasionally until both sides have browned. Place bacon on top of the biscuits, followed by a poached egg, a spoonful or two of hollandaise sauce, and some freshly cracked pepper. Serve immediately.

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00:01oh god this is great this is great this is terrible hi guys I'm chef Mimi I'm
00:10here today in the Upper East Side to cook eggs benedict for you all but before we
00:14get started subscribe below typically I cook at Vinatoria which is in Harlem
00:18today I need to know whose kitchen is this hi I'm Shoshana this is my kitchen
00:25only eggs have ever been cooked in it the back burner is temperamental so I've
00:32never used it and I've attempted to use it looks like it's going to explode and be
00:37safe my first reaction about opening the door was his apartment is dining but in
00:44the same sense I also knew in the back of my mind that it's alright because
00:46everything's workable all right well you got water and alcohol good it's small but
00:51I knew we would be okay first I'm gonna make the biscuit dough I see first thing
00:54here that we have a mason jar which oh so perfectly has measurements on it a
00:59fourth of a cup of every flour so I like to consider myself what I call a
01:03backyard baker I like to do a little bit of this and a little bit of that having
01:06a mason jar to measure was not very precise but it also just gave me kind of
01:10in the general direction of like cool this is about what I need baking powder
01:14it's one teaspoon so I'm just gonna know in the palm of my hand baking soda the
01:19reason we have both it's gonna help biscuits really kind of rise up salts for
01:23half a teaspoon we add our sugar now butter we're gonna use about two and a
01:28half tablespoons you always want to make sure that your butter is very cold you
01:31don't want it to melt your hands are perfectly fine to be your mixer I had an
01:35ex-girlfriend who loved breakfast so because of that I've made biscuits
01:39probably over the course of three years like 50 to 70 times we're well on our way
01:45to making really great biscuits this morning when I grip it it's already
01:48starting to come together and I haven't even added any wet ingredients heavy cream
01:52and I've got one egg whisk this together mix a little in at a time now I'm just
01:57kneading the dough together it's already at a consistency that I'm not gonna use
02:02any more of the liquid for fear that it's gonna make my batter too runny
02:04you're gonna set it in the fridge and let it rest so you're probably
02:08wondering why I'm sitting on the floor well this is the best possible
02:12workspace that we have I can't say that I've ever worked on the floor in my 15
02:16year career but there is a first time for everything it well her floor is pretty
02:19clean and I'm gonna casually dry our floor off here got some paper bags that I've
02:24just cut up quickly we're all taped down I found this bottle of tequila and since
02:29we don't have a rolling pin I'm gonna wrap it in some plastic just to keep it
02:32clean I don't like my tequila dirty if you're feeling nervous you should
02:35probably just go ahead and take a shot of this tequila before you even start I
02:39don't have to roll too much I'm just kind of looking for a half an inch we're
02:42gonna need something to make the shape so we can actually have the biscuits
02:45itself so we've got a mug we have this cup I've got a little mason jar here and
02:51this is a perfect size because if you think about it our egg will fit perfectly
02:54on top with your extra dough you can ball it up and do the same thing again kind
02:59of an ugly biscuit and there we go it's actually a great work surface down here so
03:03next I'm gonna take the biscuits I'm gonna place them on our toaster oven can't
03:07say I've ever used one of these before but okay yep don't know what I'm doing no
03:14yes so I've got it to like 375 it feels like it's ready now so I'm gonna go
03:19ahead and throw them in and we're gonna check them in like 10 minutes see what
03:23we get my biscuits are all done I've got two sponges here which is gonna be
03:29perfect actually to take them out to dry sponges not wet careful when you do
03:34this I'm looking at the biscuits and I'm really happy with them they smell
03:37delicious they're perfect next we're gonna make the hollandaise sauce I'm gonna
03:42need egg yolks and we're gonna need butter and then the other things I'm
03:46gonna look for are an acid lemon juice is perfect and also some peppercorn a
03:50little bit of butter I'm gonna microwave it it probably 30 seconds all right and
03:57that was about 8 tablespoons of butter so now I'm gonna take my eggs and I'm
04:01gonna separate them I think for me I like using my hands best one more in here
04:07I've got my four egg yolks my lemon juice does anyone have a whisk here no a
04:13trusty fork here that we're gonna use you know when it's ready to add the fat to
04:18the egg yolks when I do this now I can tell I can't hold in figure eight it just
04:23means I have ways to go with whisking while I start to do this I'm gonna go
04:26ahead and put some water in my pot and the point of this water is to not boil it
04:29you want to simmer it while we do that I'm gonna just keep whisking away which might
04:34take a little longer since we don't have a whisk this is definitely an arm workout
04:44I am breaking a little bit of a sweat right now so since this is taking a long
04:47time and my wrist is getting tired I'm gonna grab another fork I can see my a
04:56which is what I'm looking for so that's how you know you're ready and then my pot
05:00of water over here is up now to a boil so I'm gonna go ahead and just turn it
05:03down just a little bit and the objective really of putting this over you don't
05:08want to fry the egg yolks it's about lightly cooking them thoroughly all the
05:12way through so I can also see now it's a really nice thick runny sauce we're
05:16gonna go ahead then slowly start to add our fat to it a little bit of my butter
05:20and whisk really heavily because this is the part where you really want these two
05:24ingredients to come together and if you do a lot and then don't whisk quickly well
05:28they're not gonna come together a little bit of fresh cracked pepper in
05:31there and then also salt see what we got
05:40tastes really good as soon as the Hollandaise started to thicken up and I
05:43could see my figure eight it was like the moment of relief in my mind like all
05:46right we're now on cruise control we're gonna go ahead and start cooking our
05:49Canadian bacon mmm smells like breakfast in here and if you can hear that sound
05:54that's the sound of awesome and I'm gonna give them one more flip and then we're
05:58gonna go ahead and be done just set those aside and we're gonna start doing
06:01our poached eggs also I'm gonna add a little bit of vinegar to the water which
06:05helps the eggs come together maybe like three tablespoons to trick like every
06:09restaurant I've ever worked in they always use I'm gonna probably poach two
06:12eggs at a time just to speed things up a little bit don't touch them until
06:17they've been in there and you can start to really see the egg white form
06:20otherwise the yolk will break see how they have a little bit of resistance so I
06:23know they're cooked and runny still I'm actually gonna take what I did call my
06:27ugly biscuits that I think are pretty I'm gonna use my ugly biscuits for this
06:31and then I'm gonna gently take my poached eggs again so we're just gonna do a
06:36little bit of freshly cracked pepper on top and that's it I can't believe I
06:40pulled that off the most frustrating part about this process was whisking the
06:44Hollandaise sauce with no whisk little more muscle than I thought but I feel good
06:50about that that's a really good eggs benedict if I do say so myself being a
06:54backyard baker in the end it helped me out I thank you so much for watching
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