Name: Home-Made Tartare Sauce
Ingredients: 150 g egg yolks - 3 medium eggs; 1 tbsp Dijon mustard; 1 tbsp white wine vinegar; 500 ml neutral oil/groundnut or sunflower

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Chefs' Knowledge

By Chandos Elletson

Published 2022

About

The traditional accompaniment to fried fish. It’s rich, lemony and salty with a crunch. Made with real mayonnaise tartare sauce is delicious.

Ingredients

For the Mayonnaise

150 g egg yolks - 3 medium eggs
1 tbsp

Method

Whisk the yolks with the mustard and vinegar until well amalgamated in a clean bowl. Very slowly, drop by drop, begin adding the oil. The egg yolk mixture needs to accept the oil so If you are too quick the correct amalgamation won’t happen and the mayonnaise will remain split.

So, start gently. The sauce will thicken as you add more oil. As It does you can speed up the oil into a stead