Grandma's Easy Tartar Sauce Recipe | Simple. Tasty. Good. (2024)

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Wondering what's in tartar sauce? It's typically made with mayonnaise, chopped pickles or relish, lemon juice, and herbs (like tarragon and dill). There are also a handful of optional ingredients you can add that take the tartar sauce's flavor to the next level. For example, this recipe includes yellow mustard.

A good tartar sauce needs not just plain sweetness or acidity, but a balance of both. Too much sugar with no acid and it comes off as cloying. There should be plenty of pickle-y bits inside the mayonnaise base, packed with crunch and texture. Soft, squishy pickles or mayo that's too gloppy or greasy are unacceptable.

Store: To store tartar sauce, keep it covered and chilled in the refrigerator. It should easily last 1 week or longer.

Tartar sauce (French: sauce tartare; spelled tartare sauce in the UK, Ireland, and Commonwealth countries) is a condiment made of mayonnaise, chopped pickles and relish, caper, and herbs such as tarragon and dill.

Tartar sauce is the usual US spelling, tartare sauce is the usual UK/Commonwealth spelling, and sauce tartare is the French spelling for a sauce made of mayonnaise with capers, pickles, herbs, etc. and often served with fried fish. It is very similar to sauce rémoulade.

Made with your favorite tangy mayonnaise and crunchy pickles, olives, and capers, Duke's Tartar Sauce is the ideal seafood condiment. Cold Weather Warning: If you are shipping to a location that is experiencing cold weather, please consider delaying your order until temps are warmer.

Ingredients. I like to add diced dill pickles instead of capers. Some of the pickle juice is added to thin the sauce, but feel free to use the same amount of lemon juice. Most recipes call for white vinegar with some sugar added, I like to substitute rice wine vinegar, taking care of both needs there.

Instead of tartar sauce, use a garlicky aioli with or without a little dill or chopped pickle.

Some popular brands known for their high-quality tartar sauce include Heinz, Kraft, and Duke's. These brands are often praised for their well-balanced flavors and creamy textures.

Which brand tartar sauce tastes like McDonald's? ›

We found out the tartar sauces from McDonald's and Frisch's have similar tastes.

Tartar sauce is usually consumed in small quantities, and for most people it is not a part of their regular diet. So it may not play a substantial role in your overall health. But there are some nutrients in the sauce, such as vitamin K, that can have an impact on your health.

Opened containers of mayonnaise, tartar sauce and horseradish should be kept in the fridge. If they are kept at a temperature of 50 °F or more for longer than eight hours, they should be thrown away, according to FoodSafety.gov.

For a clean tasting mayonnaise use something like grape seed, safflower, avocado or canola oil. Since posting the recipe, quite a few readers have asked about olive oil in mayonnaise. You can use olive oil, but it can be a little overpowering so I prefer to use a brand that's light and fruity.

Tartar sauce will thicken a bit when it's chilled. If you find that your tartar sauce turns out runny or too thin, try reducing the lemon juice next time. Make sure you always drain the pickles well. If it's still too thin, try adding a bit more mayonnaise.

The inclusion of lemon juice, dill pickles, and capers ensures that tartar sauce offers an unbelievable kick of tang, above and beyond what sour cream offers. That makes the flavor of the baked potato more dynamic, which is perfect when you want to get a little something more out of a weeknight meal.

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