French Tartar sauce is popular all over the world. Over the years, this spicy sauce is filled with a wide variety of dishes in all corners of our planet. On European tables Tartar sauce appeared in the middle of the nineteenth century. At that time in France, the mayonnaise sauce was very popular. Adding various spices, local chefs invented a new simple recipe - Tartar sauce. To date, the classic Tartar sauce recipe is among the most delicious and famous sauces of the world.
Tartar sauce is an excellent addition to fish. Very often it is served to seafood dishes. Also, Tartar sauce is well combined with meat dishes and vegetables. Tartar sauce can be easily prepared at home. For this, no complex ingredients are required. The cooking process takes a minimum of time, which is especially useful in cases where you need to treat guests unexpected unexpected guests. Further in the article the recipes are set forth, how to prepare Tartar sauce at home.
Classic recipe of Tartar sauce with garlic
Ingredients
- 2 boiled egg yolks
- 1 raw egg yolk
- 120 ml of olive oil
- 1/2 lemon juice
- 100 grams of finely chopped green onions
- clove of garlic
- several olives
- 1 finely chopped pickled cucumber
- salt
- pepper
Preparation:
Yolks must be carefully grinded, add salt, pepper and lemon juice to them and mix well until smooth. In the resulting mass should be poured a thin trickle of olive oil, constantly stirring and whipping. When the sauce on a consistence will remind dense mayonnaise, in it it is necessary to pour finely chopped green onions.
In the end, the sauce should be squeezed out with garlic, add finely chopped olives and cucumber.
Tartar Sauce is ready!
Tartar sauce recipe based on mayonnaise
Ingredients:
- 150 grams of mayonnaise
- 30 grams of finely chopped pickled cucumber
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped capers and green onions
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- salt
- pepper
Preparation:
Cucumbers, onions and capers should be mixed, filled with mayonnaise and left in a cool place for 30 minutes. In the mixture should pour lemon juice, add pepper and salt.
Using a whisk, the sauce must be beaten to a uniform state, then fed to the table.
Tartar sauce based on mayonnaise is a simplified preparation. After spending a minimum of time, you can give the exquisite taste of Tartar sauce to any main dish.
Interesting features of Tartar sauce:
- despite the world-recognized French origin, many believe that the inventors of the Tartar sauce were Tatars. This conclusion was made because of the name of the sauce, which clearly refers to the Tatar peoples;
- in the Tartar sauce you can add a variety of dried and fresh herbs and vegetables.
The main feature of the sauce is that, despite a gentle and homogeneous base, there are pieces of vegetables in it; - recipe of Tartar sauce with garlic is used, as a rule, to complement dishes from poultry and cold fries;
- the optimal shelf life of Tartar sauce cooked at home is 2 days in the refrigerator. In a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid, the sauce can be stored in a cool place for 5 to 7 days;
- today you can buy Tartar sauce in ready-made form in almost every supermarket. Nevertheless, the sauce prepared at home is much more intense and spicier than the factory option.