Dill Sauce

Name: Dill Sauce
Ingredients: 1 small egg + 1 egg yolk; ¼ tsp salt; ½ rounded tsp mustard powder; Freshly ground black pepper; 1 small egg + 1 egg yolk; 2½ fl oz/70 ml near-boiling water; 1½ tbsp fresh dill; ½ tsp caster sugar; ¼ pint/140 ml oil (I use sunflower oil); ¼ pint/140 ml oil (I use sunflower oil); 2 tbsp wine vinegar, more if you like

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

This is a warm mayonnaise-type sauce, well flavoured with dill, a herb which I love to combine with all fish as well as the salmon with which it is more usually associated.

Ingredients

1 small egg + 1 egg yolk
¼ tsp salt

Sauce
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Summer

Method

Put the egg and extra yolk into a food processor or liquidizer with the salt, mustard powder, freshly ground black pepper and caster sugar and whiz, gradually adding the oil – drop by drop at first, then in a very thin trickle. The mayonnaise should be very thick. Whiz in the wine vinegar and the dill, and lastly, with the machine still running, the hot water. This will thin down the sauce so t