Description
Ina Garten’s classic tartar sauce delights seafood enthusiasts with its creamy, tangy profile. Home cooks can easily blend mayonnaise, pickles, capers, and herbs for a simple yet elegant condiment that elevates fish dishes.
Ingredients
Scale
- ½ cup (120 ml) mayonnaise
- 2 tbsps (30 ml) small-diced pickles
- 1 tbsp (15 ml) capers
- 1 tbsp (15 ml) Champagne or white wine vinegar
- 1 tsp (5 ml) coarse-grained mustard
- 1 pinch kosher salt
- 1 pinch freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preparation: Secure a food processor with a steel blade, ready to transform the pickle medley into a delectable sauce.
- Ingredient Fusion: Combine all components within the processor, ensuring each element is poised for a harmonious blend.
- Textural Refinement: Employ swift, controlled pulses to chop pickles into delicate, balanced fragments, avoiding over-processing that would compromise the sauce’s rustic charm.
- Mixing Precision: Intermittently sweep the processor’s interior with a spatula, guaranteeing comprehensive ingredient integration and a consistent, vibrant mixture.
- Final Composition: Conclude processing when the tartar sauce displays a perfect balance – finely chopped pickles suspended in a creamy backdrop, promising a burst of tangy, fresh flavor with each spoonful.
Notes
- Chop Carefully: Use pulse function to control pickle texture, preventing over-processing that could turn sauce into a mushy puree.
- Blade Selection Matters: Steel blade in food processor ensures precise, even chopping of pickle ingredients for optimal sauce consistency.
- Scrape and Mix: Regularly pause processing to scrape down processor sides, guaranteeing all ingredients blend uniformly without leaving unmixed portions.
- Texture Tells All: Final mixture should have small, visible pickle fragments, creating a chunky yet well-integrated tartar sauce with distinct ingredient character.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Appetizer, Snacks
- Method: Blending
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 8
- Calories: 130
- Sugar: 1 g
- Sodium: 200 mg
- Fat: 14 g
- Saturated Fat: 2 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 10 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 2 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 5 mg