Tartar sauce is considered a classic of French cuisine. Its basis is grinded with vegetable oil yolks, which during the preparation of the hastily the easiest to replace the ready-made mayonnaise. Additions to this simple base can serve as finely chopped pickles and a wide variety of greens. Variations of the recipe for tartar sauce at home are discussed below.
How to cook tartar sauce at home?
Let's start with the classics and prepare this amazingly delicious sauce from scratch, whipping the base with your own hand, instead of using the ready-made mayonnaise. As a result, the taste of the sauce will be more pronounced, and the consistency is more fluid.
Ingredients:
- egg yolk;
- vegetable oil - 95 ml;
- lemon juice - 5 ml;
- marinade from salted cucumber - 5 ml;
- pickled cucumbers - 55 g;
- capers - 20 g;
- mustard spicy - 1/2 tsp;
- parsley greens - 1 tbsp. a spoon.
Preparation
In one bowl, beat the egg yolk, add lemon juice and cucumber marinade. After whisk the ingredients together until the emulsion forms, about 10 seconds, and then, whilst continuing, start gradually and very slowly pour in the vegetable oil. When the mayonnaise is ready, it remains only to supplement it with crushed pickled cucumber, capers, mustard and chopped greens. Depending on the salinity of cucumbers, add salt in the finale to taste, and then cool the tartar before serving.
Tartar sauce at home with sour cream
For a more delicate taste without the characteristic acidity of mayonnaise, mix the latter with sour cream and a drop of honey. At the output you will get surprisingly soft, sweet-salted sauce.
Ingredients:
- capers - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- pickled cucumbers (medium) - 2 pcs .;
- crushed onions - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- garlic - 1 tooth;
- honey - 5 ml;
- vinegar - 5 ml;
- mayonnaise - 45 g;
- sour cream - 120 g.
Preparation
Start with slicing pickles and capers in small pieces. Mix the pickles with fresh onions, then add the ingredients with garlic paste and a mixture of vinegar and honey. Put a serving of sour cream and mayonnaise, and then refrigerate the finished sauce.
Tartar sauce - a simple recipe at home
Unlike the recipes presented above, the taste of the sauce will not balance on the verge of acidity, sweetness and salinity, it will also add an acute flavor that can be obtained by adding a Tabasco sauce or any other hot sauce to taste.
Ingredients:
- mayonnaise - 410 g;
- pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs .;
- Tabasco sauce - 4 drops;
- lemon juice - to taste;
- green parsley - 2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
- Crush the pickles with the parsley, then add them to the mayonnaise and mix well. Add the sauce to the sharp "Tabasco" and a little lemon juice.
- Ready-made sauce perfectly complements fried vegetables, meat, eggs, fish.
Tartar sauce - cooking at home
In this recipe, pickled hot peppers are used instead of pickled cucumbers. If you want to avoid sharpness, then just replace the hot peppers with the usual sweet.
Ingredients:
- mayonnaise - 240 g;
- hot pepper canned - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- capers - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- onion - 20 g;
- lemon juice - 15 g;
- Dijon mustard - 5 g;
- Worcestershire sauce - 5 ml.
Preparation
Chop the peppers together with the capers. Cut small onion finely. Mix everything with mayonnaise, Dijon mustard and Worcestershire sauce. Add the sauce with lemon juice and take the sample. Before serving, the ready tartar is best cooled. It perfectly complements dishes from fish and red meat, also good for deep-fried snacks.