Today's Case:

Tartar Sauce

Re: tartar sauce
From: Michael
Date: 11/27/2023, 7:31 PM
To: Phaedrus 

On 11/27/2023 5:43 PM, Michael wrote:

Tartar sauce 

Hello Michael,

If you want a tartar sauce that tastes like one you have had before, you must tell me the brand or the restaurant where you had it. There are dozens of tartar sauce recipes. Everyone makes it a little differently.

There are two fairly simple recipes below. If you do not like sour tartar sauce, use sweet pickles instead of dill pickles or cornichons. Use Hellman's mayonnaise.

Phaed

Award winning Tartar Sauce
 
1/2 Cup Mayo
1/2 Cup Sour Cream
3 Tbs Lemon Juice
2 Tbs of Dill Relish, with the excess liquid pressed out, or 2Tbs of diced dill pickles
1-2 Tbs of small capers, to taste
diced onion (optional) to taste
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Classic Tartar Sauce

Ingredients

1 clove garlic
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 shallot, roughly chopped
2 tablespoons capers
2 tablespoons roughly chopped cornichons with their juice
½ cup plus 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
½ cup sour cream
Juice of ½ lemon
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation

In a food processor, purée the garlic and salt. Add shallot, capers, 
cornichons and their juices and pulse a few times. Add the mayonnaise, 
sour cream, lemon juice and parsley, and pulse. Season with salt and pepper.