Paul Gayler

Home-Made Tartare Sauce

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Chefs' Knowledge: The modern culinary repertoire
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