Simple and Easy Homemade Tartar Sauce

This creamy homemade tartar sauce is amazingly quick and easy to make at home. Learn how to whip up a batch in minutes. The sauce goes great with fried fish, stuffed eggs, and shrimp. This tartar sauce recipe may surprise you.

Today I’m sharing how to make a homemade tartar sauce. I shared recently how to make homemade mayonnaise, which is the base for the tartar Sauce.

Homemade Tartar Sauce Recipe

Tartar sauce is a traditional French sauce made with a mayonnaise and mustard base. Its ingredients include intense flavors such as capers, pickles and cappers, raw onion… All of this is enhanced by the lemon and/or vinegar that comes from the mayonnaise.

It is usually served with fish or chicken wings, seafood or vegetable dishes, such as a good escalivada, or grilled vegetables.

Making it will only take us 10 minutes. Take note of the ingredients of the tartar sauce and discover how easy it is to make it at home. It will be a new essential in your kitchen!

Also as I mentioned before, Even though it is available ready-made in jars, the flavor doesn’t compare to a homemade tartar sauce. It’s healthier and you can make many variations from there.

You can find this recipe also in Spanish over at my mom’s blog Check out her Salsa Tartara Recipe.

How to Make Tartar Sauce

There is nothing easier than making a tartar sauce and the best part is that you can even add some extra seasoning of your choice to make it even tastier.

All you need is 10 minutes to get a creamy and flavorful dipping sauce ready for any fish, oyster, shrimp, or crab cake dish, or even veggies and pita bread or chips.

Ingredients:

• Mayonnaise – store-bought or make your own Mayonnaise. It provides the creamy base that we love.
• Fresh lemon juice – It thins out the sauce and adds a fresh zesty flavor.
• Garlic clove smashed.
• Salt and ground black Pepper – or your favorite condiments.
• Onion finely chopped
• Parsley
• Fresh dill or dried dill
• Dill pickles or sweet pickles relish
• Capers
• Yellow mustard *optional.

Instructions:

Firstly, if you are making your own mayonnaise, then start there and come back. If you are using store-bought ten jump to the next step.

When the Mayo is ready, mix in the onion, garlic, parsley, dill, pickles, capers, and lemon juice in a small bowl.

Stir until well blended and creamy.

Season with a pinch of salt and pepper.

Taste then if needed, adjust with additional lemon juice, salt, and pepper.

For the best flavor, cover, and store in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.

Serve and Enjoy!

What to serve Tartar Sauce with

The tartar sauce goes so well with fish and any seafood dishes, grilled, baked, or fried fish.

But it can also go very well with chicken nuggets and tender strips, roasted veggies. Why not use it in a sandwich too?

Leftover and storing

When the mayonnaise is homemade, the tartar souse should be served freshly made or kept in the fridge for up to 48 hours.

If you used store-bought mayonnaise, store tightly covered, in the refrigerator for up to one week.

Recipe Variations

Tartar sauce comes from French cuisine and radishes are also often added to the original recipe. As the recipe has spread around the world, in some countries the recipe is varied to add or remove certain ingredients. For example, the Venezuelan tartar sauce usually doesn’t use onion, while the Peruvian tartar sauce forgets the mustard. In the case of Colombian tartar sauce, it is common to add chives and even eggs.

In any case, tartar sauce is one of the most popular white sauces, as most people love it.

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