Eggs Benedict Breakfast Bar – Lexi’s Clean Kitchen

The Eggs Benedict breakfast bar features poached eggs, crispy bacon, caramelized onions, roasted tomatoes, sautéed spinach, and a rich hollandaise, all stacked on your choice of paleo bread or sweet potato bun. It’s a fun and customizable twist on a brunch classic!

Easy recipe for Eggs Benedict

This Eggs Benedict Breakfast Bar is a restaurant quality breakfast or brunch you can prepare right at home. Each component is quick to prepare and together makes for the tastiest, heartiest breakfast sandwich and the perfect way to start each day of the week.

Not only is it as easy, but also as customizable as you want! Stick to the recipe or play around with different additions to create your ideal breakfast sandwich!

What is Eggs Benedict?

Eggs Benedict is a classic breakfast or brunch sandwich that traditionally consists of an English muffin with bacon, poached eggs and hollandaise sauce.

What is the difference between Eggs Benedict and Eggs Florentine?

While both Eggs Benedict and Eggs Florentine are delicious breakfast sandwiches, the two are slightly different.

We know that Eggs Benedict is a breakfast sandwich with poached eggs and hollandaise sauce.

Eggs Florentine, on the other hand, offers eggs that can be poached, scrambled, or boiled. It also always includes spinach and is topped with mornay sauce rather than hollandaise, which is made with a buttery parmesan base.

what you will need

• Sandwich Buns or Sweet Potato Buns: Feel free to use one or the other, both, or an entirely different type of bread.
• Vegetables: I top my breakfast sandwich with roasted tomatoes, caramelized onions, sautéed spinach, and fresh avocado and chives.
• eggs: We keep it classic by poaching the eggs. The fresher the eggs, the better.
• Bacon: You can cook your bacon on the stovetop, in the oven, or in the air fryer.
• Hollandaise sauce: Butter, Egg Yolk, Lemon Juice, Salt, Pepper, Cayenne Pepper, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder

How to make Eggs Benedict

This Eggs Benedict recipe is completely homemade, surprisingly easy to make and has so many delicious flavors and textures!

• Prepare your “bread”: You can use the bread of your choice or whip up my homemade paleo bread and/or sweet potato buns.
• Caramelize onions: Heat oil or butter in a pan, then add the onions. Cook until tender and browned.
• poach eggs: Bring water to a boil in a saucepan, then add 1 tablespoon of white vinegar. Crack an egg into a casserole dish and stir the water with a spoon until it swirls. Place the egg in the center of the hot tub and simmer until cooked to your liking.
• Preparation of the toppings: Roast the tomatoes in the oven until they bubble and sauté the spinach in a skillet on the stovetop until cooked through. Slice the avocado and chives.
• Make the hollandaise: Melt butter in a water bath, then mix egg yolks, lemon juice and spices in a blender. Add the melted butter and mix until combined. Add water if necessary. Check out my Homemade Hollandaise Sauce recipe for more detailed instructions.
• Arrange and serve: Gather all your ingredients so everyone can mix and match their Eggs Benedict sandwiches and dive right in!

Is Eggs Benedict the same as poached?

Not quite. Eggs Benedict is a dish made with poached eggs. Poached eggs are a special method of cooking eggs that involves placing the beaten egg in a pot of boiling water.

For more information on poached eggs, check out my post on how to make poached eggs!

What to serve with Eggs Benedict

Eggs Benedict is filling and hearty on its own, but of course you can spice up your brunch even more with all your favorite breakfast recipes. Here are a few ideas:

How to save

While an assembled breakfast sandwich should be served immediately, you can store the various components completely separately in the fridge:

Poached Eggs keeps in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 days. To warm up, bring a pot of water to a boil, remove from the heat and add the eggs to the water.

Boiled ham Keeps in an airtight container in the fridge for 4-5 days. To reheat, heat in a pan or heat in the oven and crisp again.

hollandaise sauce can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 2 days. Check out your reheating options in my Healthier Hollandaise Sauce recipe post.

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Watch the video:

• 1 Batch sandwich buns
• 1 Batch of sweet potato buns
• 2 Roma tomatoes
• 1 yellow or red onion thinly sliced
• 3 eggs poached
• 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
• 3 cups spinach
• 1 avocado cut into crescents
• 1 tablespoon chives thinly sliced
• 6 strips of bacon cooked

Hollandaise sauce:

• 1 Cup unsalted butter
• 2 egg yolk
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/4 teaspoon sea-salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper more to taste
• 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/4 Cup warm water if necessary

• Make sandwich bread as instructed in the post.
• Make sweet potato buns as instructed in the post.

• Make the Caramelized Onions: In a skillet over low heat, add 1 tablespoon oil or butter and onions and cook, stirring frequently, until soft, brown, and nicely caramelized. If it starts to burn, add a tablespoon of water. Cook for about 8-10 minutes or until the onions are caramelized.

• Poach Eggs: Bring 2 cups of water to a boil in a medium saucepan. Add 1 tablespoon of white vinegar. Crack the egg into a small casserole dish. Using a spoon, stir the water in a circular motion until you get a whirlpool effect. Slide the egg into the center of the whirlpool. Gently boil the egg for 3-6 minutes depending on how runny you like it. Remove the egg from the water with a slotted spoon and arrange on a plate. Repeat with more eggs. You can also find these instructions on page 66 of the Lexi’s Clean Kitchen cookbook!

• Roasted Tomatoes: Set the oven to broil and broil the tomatoes whole until they start to bubble. Remove from the oven and set aside.

• In a small skillet, sauté the spinach until it begins to wilt. Remove from stove and set aside.

• Slice the avocado and chives and set aside.

• Prepare the hollandaise sauce: Melt the butter in a water bath. While the butter melts, place the egg yolks, lemon juice, and spices in a blender and cover. Slowly pour the melted butter into the blender in a steady stream on low speed until the butter and egg yolks are well combined. If the sauce is thick, slowly add water until you reach a slightly thick and runny consistency. Taste and adjust the seasonings as needed. Serve warm in a serving plate of your choice!

• Build your choice of Eggs Benedict and devour them!