Homemade Tartar Sauce

Homemade Tartar Sauce is Good on Everything!

• Fish & Chips
• Salmon Patties
  
• Steamed Shrimp
  
• Beer-Battered Fish Tacos
  

A Quick Tartar Sauce For When You Don’t Have Store-Bought

Making scratch tartar sauce is easy. It’s one of those condiments that we sometimes don’t have in the fridge, but it’s quick enough to whip up a batch when you need it. Tartar sauce is great for seafood, especially fried fish, because it’s creamy and bright and complements the flavor of seafood. We like to serve it with Beer Battered Fish, atop a Salmon Burger, or Spicy Fish Tacos.

Tartar Sauce Ingredients

• Mayonnaise

• Jar of dill pickles – You’ll need both juice and pickle for this recipe. Maybe you have some Homemade Dill Pickles in the fridge!

• Lemon

• Seasoning – Old Bay seasoning, garlic powder, onion powder, sugar, dried dill, cayenne pepper

How to Make Homemade Tartar Sauce

1. Cut the dill pickle. This is a good time to practice your knife skills!

2. Squeeze a lemon.

3. Measure and combine the mayonnaise, pickles, pickle juice, lemon juice, Old Bay, garlic powder, onion powder, sugar, dill, and cayenne in a small bowl.

How to Store Tartar Sauce + Tips

• Can you freeze tartar sauce? It’s not the best sauce to freeze because mayonnaise “breaks” when it is frozen. Instead, store leftover tartar sauce in the fridge for up to a week.

• Get creative with leftover tartar sauce. It’s not just for fish! It can be stirred into Classic Potato Salad instead of plain mayonnaise or spooned onto roasted veggies like Roasted Asparagus.

• Thinned out with a little extra pickle juice and milk water, it becomes a salad dressing maybe for using on our Shrimp Louie salad!

Fish Loves Tarter Sauce.

• Grilled Tilapia Tacos
• Baked Cod
  
• Broiled Salmon
  
• Baked Tilapia
  

Get (Tarter) Saucy!

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