Simple tartar sauce recipe for meat

One thing is a fact: sauces can transform any or almost all foods. If the food is good, the sauce can make it even better, if it’s bad, the sauce has the power to save it. Therefore, one of the most traditional and beloved sauces is tartar saucewhich is often used in meat.

That is one sauce based on mayonnaise, pickles or cucumber and lemon. It is served as an accompaniment to various foods, but mainly at barbecues, with meat and quick snacks, such as fries and onion rings. But the sky is the limit when it comes to using tartar sauce.

Anyway, below we are going to learn the recipe for simple tartar sauce, which is very easy to make. In only 15 minutes you prepare this sauce which serves up to 4 people who love sauces.

Take the opportunity to also check out a trick with ice cubes on barbecue meat.

Simple tartar sauce recipe

Ingredients

• 1 cup mayonnaise (homemade or industrial)
• 1 cup pickles or cucumbers
• 2 tablespoons chopped onion
• 1 tablespoon chopped green onion
• 1 teaspoon mustard
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice or vinegar
• 1 teaspoon of refined sugar (optional)
• black pepper to taste

Preparation mode

1. First, to make your tartar sauce, you need to chop your pickles or cucumbers and onion. The ideal is to chop very small to incorporate it well into the sauce.
2. Then, in a bowl add the mayonnaise, chopped pickle, onion and chives, mustard and lemon juice.
3. Mix everything very well and, if necessary, adjust the flavor with a pinch of sugar.
4. Lastly add black pepper to taste.
5. As it is ideal to serve the tartar sauce cold, place the sauce in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.

Tartar Sauce Tips

• This specific sauce is very light and fresh, and that it won’t weigh down your meal. As well as the barbecue garlic paste, which even has a recipe here too.
• Tartar sauce can be served with a huge variety of dishes, but it is usually accompanied by roast meat, fried fish, breaded chicken, seafood, raw vegetables, and salads. However, you can serve it with whatever you prefer. Check out 10 salad dressing recipes here.
• The most traditional recipe includes capers. If you want, you can enhance your sauce by including this ingredient, but it is completely optional.
• The lemon is essential to guarantee the acidity of the sauce.
• In fact, there are some versions of tartar sauce that replace mayonnaise with sour cream. So, if you don’t have one, you can use the other.
• Furthermore, this sauce also goes very well with homemade hamburgers, for which we have already taught you the recipe.
• This sauce can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

Fun facts about tartar sauce

• This sauce is originating from French cuisine. There it is known as tartare sauce, and there is no mayonnaise in it. However, tartar sauce soon became popular and ended up receiving other names and undergoing some modifications to its original recipe.
• For example, in England, this sauce features capers, pickles, lemon juice and dill. In the United States, the sauce has a sweet and sour version, which includes cucumber paste, onion and parsley. In other places, the sauce gained other ingredients, such as boiled egg and olives.
• In the early 20th century, this sauce was commonly served with steak tartare. However, it is not known for sure whether it is the sauce that gives the dish its name, or if the dish gives its name to the sauce.
• In fact, there are those who say that the origin of the name “Tatar” is due to the name of an ethnic group in Ukraine and Russia, the Tartars.

Anyway, what did you think of this tartar sauce recipe? Take the opportunity to also check out the guacamole recipe in 10 minutes.

Sources: All Recipes Technical Kitchen