Mayonnaise Verte

Name: Mayonnaise Verte
Ingredients: 1½ cups homemade or commercial mayonnaise; 1½ cups homemade or commercial mayonnaise; 2 Tbsp. chopped parsley; 2 Tbsp. chopped watercress leaves; 2 Tbsp. chopped tarragon; 1 Tbsp. chopped chives

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Good Cheap Food

By Miriam Ungerer

Published 1973

About

Splendid on shrimp, crab, chicken, fish, boiled eggs, and things I’ve never thought of. Only fresh herbs will do—dried herbs make a sauce grise, not verte—and if parsley is all you can get, then so be it.

Ingredients

1½ cups homemade or commercial mayonnaise
2 Tbsp. chopped parsley

Sauce
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Blanch the watercress and herbs in boiling water for 2 minutes, drain thoroughly, squeeze dry, and pound to a paste in a mortar. If you haven’t a mortar, just mince the herbs together as finely as you can. Mix into the mayonnaise.