Tartar sauce

Tartar sauce
	Tartar sauce is often served with various fried seafood dishes.
Alternative names	Tartare sauce, tartare
Type	Sauce
Place of origin	France
Main ingredients	Mayonnaise, gherkins (or other varieties of pickles), lemon juice and sometimes tarragon
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Tartar sauce (French: sauce tartare; also spelled Tartare sauce in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and other parts of the Commonwealth) is a condiment made of mayonnaise, chopped pickles, capers and olives. Tartar sauce can also be enhanced with the addition of gherkins, other varieties of pickles, and lemon juice as well as herbs such as dill and parsley.

It is most often used as a condiment with seafood dishes such as fish and chips, clam strips, fried oysters, fish sandwiches, and fish fingers, among many other dishes.^[1]

Composition

Tartar sauce is based on either mayonnaise (egg yolk, mustard or vinegar, bitartrate, oil) or aioli (olive oil, garlic), with certain other ingredients added. In the UK, recipes typically add to the base capers, gherkins, lemon juice, and dill. US recipes may include chopped pickles or prepared green sweet relish, capers, onions (or chives), and fresh parsley.^[1] Chopped hard-boiled eggs or olives are sometimes added, as may be Dijon mustard and cocktail onions.^[2] Paul Bocuse described sauce tartare explicitly^[3] as a sauce remoulade,^[4] in which the characterising anchovy purée is to be replaced by some hot Dijon mustard.

References

^ ^a ^b Isabella Graham Duffield Stewart; Mary B. Duffield (1878). The Home messenger book of tested receipts. Detroit: E. B. Smith & Co. p. 31. Retrieved 2 June 2012. sauce tartare.
^ Louisette Bertholle; Julia Child; Simone Beck (2001). Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Vol. 1. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-95817-4. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
^ Paul Bocuse, La cuisine du marché, 1976
^ Bocuse describes the Remoulade just previous Sauce Tartare as a standard mayonnaise (egg yolks, vinegar, oil) with additional chopped capers, gherkins and herbs and some anchovy purée

External links

An explanation of the name's origin, from The Straight Dope
Tartar sauce and steak
A definition at Allrecipes.com

[Stewart-1] Isabella Graham Duffield Stewart; Mary B. Duffield (1878). The Home messenger book of tested receipts. Detroit: E. B. Smith & Co. p. 31. Retrieved 2 June 2012. sauce tartare.

[2] Louisette Bertholle; Julia Child; Simone Beck (2001). Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Vol. 1. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-95817-4. Retrieved 2 June 2012.

[3] Paul Bocuse, La cuisine du marché, 1976

[4] Bocuse describes the Remoulade just previous Sauce Tartare as a standard mayonnaise (egg yolks, vinegar, oil) with additional chopped capers, gherkins and herbs and some anchovy purée

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