Key facts
- Course
- Breakfast , brunch
- Place of origin
- United States
- Region or state
- New York City
- Main ingredients
- English muffin , bacon or ham, poached eggs, Hollandaise sauce
- Variations
- Multiple
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- open sandwich
- Country of origin
- France
- Material used
- hollandaise sauce
- Image
- Eggs Benedict2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Eggs Benedict and variations
- native label
- Eggs Benedict
- time of discovery or invention
- 1900-00-00
- course
- breakfast
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Encyclopedic overview
Eggs Benedict is a common American breakfast or brunch dish, consisting of two halves of an English muffin, each topped with Canadian bacon or sliced ham, a poached egg, and hollandaise sauce. The dish is believed to have originated in New York City, although a number of different origin stories exist.
Origin and history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “eggs Benedict” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.