Easy, Real Tartar Sauce
photo by Chef Mommie
- Ready In:
- 2mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Yields:
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1 cup
- Serves:
- 4-8
ingredients
- 1 1 sweet pickles or 1 dill pickle, minced very fine
- 1 cup Hellmann's mayonnaise (DO NOT use Miracle Whip) or 1 cup Best Foods Mayonnaise (DO NOT use Miracle Whip)
- 1⁄2 tablespoon cream of tartar (use more if needed)
- granulated sugar, to taste
directions
- Mix mayonnaise and pickle in small bowl.
- Add cream of tartar.
- Add sugar to taste.
- Cover and refrigerate until served; keeps well in fridge.
- Note: This tartar sauce changes color when allowed to sit or exposed to air; it is still safe to eat until it begins to turn rancid.
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Reviews
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Tartar Sauce (Tartare Sauce has nothing to do with the product cream of tartar. Tartar sauce, or as the French refer to it, sauce tartare, consists of mayonnaise, mustard, chives, chopped gherkins, and tarragon, according to C. Owen’s “Choice Cooking,�, circa 1889. In French, it is loosely translated as ‘rough,’ as the Tartars were considered rough, violent, and savage.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
ketchupqueen
Tujunga, California