Mayonnaise is a French cold sauce made from egg yolk, vegetable oil, mustard, vinegar, salt and sugar, sometimes mustard. This is a classic composition of a culinary product, but its cooking technologies vary. Mayonnaise can be high-calorie, medium-calorie and low-calorie. Also, the sauce is classified into dietary and snack.
How to Make Mayonnaise at Home?
It is very easy to prepare mayonnaise at home. To do this, it is enough to have a mixer or blender. For the preparation of mayonnaise, a blender is preferable, since the whipping speed is higher. To make homemade mayonnaise look lush and airy, vegetable oil is poured into a blender in a thin stream and whipped at a very high speed. Gradually, yolks and other ingredients are added to the oil. The whipped vegetable oil turns white and yellow, just like a real purchased mayonnaise. During the preparation of homemade mayonnaise, you can add additional products, for example, garlic, honey, nutmeg, ground black or red pepper.
How to Use Mayonnaise?
In cooking, mayonnaise is used to prepare various fish, meat and vegetable dishes. The sauce is an excellent dressing for salads, able to emphasize their taste. It is impossible to imagine such a salad as olivier without mayonnaise.
The culinary product complements soups, second courses, snacks, it is used as gravy for pasta and potatoes, marinade for barbecue, as well as as a basis for cooking tartare and other sauces. The product does not go well with sweet dishes, but it is sometimes added in small quantities to knead shortbread dough.
Here I cooked hastily from what I found in the refrigerator, and a wonderful, tender salad turned out. And, most importantly, my husband was happy! Girls, I didn’t take step-by-step photos. There are thousands of salad recipes on the site, where step-by-step instructions show how to cut vegetables into cubes.
And no matter how many new recipes we meet, every housewife has long-known ones. For example, carrot salad… And by adding a couple of novelties, decorating with pomegranate seeds, you can serve it on the New Year’s table.
A simple and very easy-to-prepare salad that I was preparing for the New Year. Salad with celery and apple acquires juiciness, freshness and interesting taste and aroma.
Salad with sausage is most often a simplified version of a meat salad. I add an apple to this salad for juiciness and taste. You can take any sausage – from boiled to smoked.
If your desktop book is a collection of recipes and you follow it as the letter of the law, then it’s better not to go into this recipe, you can experience a shock for life. But if you are an ordinary person and you happen to have no milk at home, and you want mashed potatoes, then at such a moment, perhaps this recipe will help you out.
A very tender, juicy cabbage casserole, which is prepared simply and naturally from available products. It goes well with any meat dishes, but it can also become a full-fledged dish for both lunch and dinner. Grandchildren love it with sour cream.