Homemade Tartar Sauce is a quick and easy recipe to put together for your fried seafood. It is simple to prepare, and only requires a handful of ingredients. I’ve been making this tartar sauce for years and it never disappoints!
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Ingredients – Here’s What You’ll Need
- The Base: Mayonnaise forms the base for this delicious tartar sauce.
- The Vegetables: I like to add sweet pickle relish, minced onions, minced parsley, and capers to the mayonnaise.
- The Liquids: Fresh lemon juice provides not only the perfect amount of liquid for the proper consistency but also the subtle flavor. In addition, Tabasco sauce gives the tartar sauce a hint of heat.
Simple Steps in Making the Tartar Sauce
- First, I added all of the ingredients for the tartar sauce to a bowl.
- Once I had added the ingredients to a bowl, I stirred everything together to ensure that the ingredients were well combined.
- Then, I transferred the tartar sauce to a covered container and put it in the refrigerator for the flavors to blend together.
That’s it – quick and easy with such a simple recipe. Yum!
Frequently Asked Questions
Capers are the immature, unripened, green flower buds of the caper bush. The caper bush is found in Mediterranean countries as well as in Asia and Australia. Italy, Morocco, and Spain, as well as Asia and Australia. Often, capers are brined and provide both texture and tanginess to tartar sauce.
Capers provide an added flavor to the tartar sauce and should not be omitted, at least from this recipe.
Tartar sauce contains lemon juice which is acidic. The acid in tartar sauce serves to neutralize the fishy taste of seafood in a manner similar to vinegar.
If covered and refrigerated, tartar sauce should last for about a week.
Tartar sauce originated in France as sauce tartare. It was named after the Tatars, who settled in the Ukraine and in parts of Russia.
Dishes to Serve with Tartar Sauce
This absolutely delicious tartar sauce is perfect on Fried Shrimp, Fish and Chips, Shrimp Po’Boy, and other seafood delicacies. I also like to dip french fries in tartar sauce!
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Recipe
Homemade Tartar Sauce – Quick and Easy
Ingredients
- ⅔ cup (5.38 ounces, 153 grams) mayonnaise
- 2 Tablespoons sweet pickle relish
- 1 Tablespoon minced fresh parsley or 1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
- 1 Tablespoon capers, drained
- 1 Tablespoon minced onion
- 1 Tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- Dash of hot sauce (optional)
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients; stir well to combine.
- Cover and chill several hours before serving.
- Yield: 1 cup.
Very simple to make and quite tasty. Thank you! I may never buy tartar sauce again.
I’m so glad that you liked it!
This is so easy and So good! I will never buy tartar sauce in the jar again! Thank you!
Carolyn, I totally agree about the tartar sauce. In fact, we had it with fish and chips for dinner. Yum!
This is the best tarter sauce ever better than store bought
This is the only tartar sauce that I ever make!