Sauce Gribiche

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    1 litre

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
How To Eat In: Cooking at Home for Family and Friends

By Adam Byatt

Published 2010

  • About

This piquant, textured vinaigrette is ideal to serve with boiled meats, cured fish and any dishes that are rich in flavour and need something to cut through that richness. It’s also good as a dipping sauce or spooned into broth-based bean soups.

Ingredients

  • 4 eggs
  • 8 shallots
  • 100 g cornichons

Method

  1. Lower the eggs into a saucepan of boiling water and boil for 8 minutes. Drain the eggs and peel off the shells under cold running water.
  2. Peel and finely chop the shallots. Finely chop the cornichons and capers by running a knife through them on a chopping board. (All this can be done in a food processor, but the sauce will tend to become pulpy and lose its text