The quick tartar sauce recipe is made with ready-made mayonnaise and enriched with pickles and pickled capers, mustard, chives and hard-boiled egg yolk, an easy no-cook condiment that is much tastier and more flavorful than classic mayonnaise.
A recipe to use as an accompaniment to meats and fish, to enrich simple salads, to make croutons and canapés or to spread on a nice stuffed sandwich. In short, a versatile sauce that once you try it, you won’t leave it.
To make tartar sauce in no time, you only need industrial mayonnaise and then add all the other ingredients, and in a few steps, your condiment will be ready to use. A tasty little sauce that will give your dishes a delicate, slightly tangy flavor. Let’s see how to prepare it.
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- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very cheap
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: about 5.3 oz of sauce
- Cooking methods: No cooking
- Seasonality: All seasons
- Energy 122.28 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 15.31 (g) of which sugars 0.83 (g)
- Proteins 4.85 (g)
- Fat 4.95 (g) of which saturated 1.23 (g)of which unsaturated 1.69 (g)
- Fibers 2.61 (g)
- Sodium 1,518.38 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 100 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients
Base quantities for about 5.3 oz of sauce.
For a larger amount, increase all the ingredients proportionally.
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1 yolk (of hard-boiled egg)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 pickles
- 1/2 tablespoon pickled capers
- A few stalks chives
- 1/2 teaspoon mustard
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
Tools
- Mixer
- Bowl
Tartar Sauce Recipe
A quick sauce with a delicate and slightly tangy flavor.
Hard-boil an egg and take only the yolk, place it in a bowl along with the lemon juice
and mix it well with a wooden spoon.
Add the mayonnaise
and blend it with the egg yolk.
In a food processor, place the pickles, capers, and a few stalks of chives,
turn on the button and finely chop everything.
Add the chopped ingredients to the mayonnaise mixture
and mix again.
Add half a teaspoon of mustard, a pinch of pepper, adjust with salt
and stir everything carefully.
With just a few simple steps, your tartar sauce is ready to be enjoyed.
A quick sauce, ideal as an accompaniment for meats and fish but also delicious spread on croutons, canapés, or stuffed sandwiches.
Storage and Tips
Storage: this sauce can be stored in the refrigerator for 1-2 days.
Tip: you can replace chives with chopped onion or parsley.
You can slightly decrease or increase the amount of mayonnaise according to your taste.
If you want, you can make homemade mayonnaise.
