‘Moutarde’ à la provençale

Provençal ‘mustard’

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Feasts of Provence

By Robert Carrier

Published 1995

  • About

Provençal ‘mustard’ is not a mustard at all but a traditional tart-flavoured, breadcrumb-thickened fish sauce to serve with boiled fish.

Ingredients

  • 2 cloves garlic, cut in quarters
  • salt
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 125–150

Method

In a mortar, combine the garlic cloves with a little salt and pound until smooth. Stir in the egg yolks until well, blended, and then, drop by drop and then-in a thin trickle, as if you were making a mayonnaise, whisk in the extra-virgin olive oil until the sauce is thick and smooth.

Moisten the fresh breadcrumbs with 2–3 tablespoons of well-flavoured fish stock. Squeeze them dry and ad