Easy Tartare Sauce
Forget shop bought tartare sauce in favour of homemade version. My easy tartare sauce recipe is creamy and full of flavour with chunky gherkins, capers and lots of fresh herbs. Classic recipe deliciously elevated.
Servings 6 servings
Calories 173kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- 150 g mayonnaise of your choice see notes
- 20 g fresh dill or parsley finely chopped, see notes
- 15 g (approx. 15g) capers or to taste, see notes
- 50 g gherkins or cornichons or to taste, chopped finely or left chunky according to your preference
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice or to taste
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Prepare your gherkins, capers and fresh dill (and any other extras you might be using (see Ingredients to make Easy Tartare Sauce) by chopping them as finely or leaving as chunky as you like.
- In a small bowl mix together mayonnaise, chopped gherkins, capers, fresh dill and some lemon juice until combined.150 g mayonnaise of your choice, 20 g fresh dill or parsley, 15 g (approx. 15g) capers, 50 g gherkins or cornichons, 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- Taste and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper if required as well as more lemon juice to taste.salt and pepper to taste
- Enjoy!
Notes
- Nutritional information is approximate, per serving (based on 6 servings) and calculated using full fat mayo. It should be treated as a rough guideline only.
- Use regular or vegan mayo. If you make your own mayonnaise definitely use that. To make the sauce a bit lighter, you can substitute some of the mayo with Greek yogurt.
- Feel free to use mixture of herbs. Tarragon will also work well in tartare sauce if you like the flavour as it's quite strong.
- Feel free to adjust the quantity of capers to your liking. If you're not a fan leave them out or swap for green olives.
- If stored properly in the fridge tartare sauce can last even for up to a week.
To prolong its life make sure to always take out the amount you are likely to use up and use clean utensils as not to contaminate your sauce and shorten its shelf life.
Use good quality mayonnaise.
Make it to your taste. Use the amounts in my recipe as a guide and adjust them to your liking, same goes for salt, pepper and lemon juice.
Leave the add-ins chunky or chop them finely, it's your sauce.
Let the sauce stand for half an hour after mixing if you've got time to allow flavours to mingle.
Nutrition
Calories: 173kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 0.4g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 11g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.05g | Cholesterol: 11mg | Sodium: 331mg | Potassium: 35mg | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 0.3g | Vitamin A: 293IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 10mg | Iron: 0.3mg