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.
According to an old recipe, a very tasty salad is obtained, which is prepared in a matter of minutes, and the result is simply magnificent. This salad was prepared for the festive table and did not spoil it at all. There is a minimum of available ingredients that will always be in the house. Ideally, this salad is prepared with smoked chicken, but I made it for myself, because I almost don’t eat smoked and therefore replaced the smoked chicken with boiled chicken breast. In this salad, you need to take fleshy tomatoes to avoid excess moisture in the salad, or choose tomato pulp. Today I used cherry.
Salad with shrimp, vegetables, cheese and crunchy crackers. Interesting, original, beautiful, quite easy and delicious. This salad will look good on the festive table.
Decorate the Christmas table with salad. Bright, hearty, from ordinary products. Before the hostess of the year does not throw beads, lay out the “pearls”… Merry and delicious Christmas holidays to you.
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Potatoes baked with minced meat. Beautiful, satisfying, delicious and unusual. It would seem, well, how can you surprise guests with a dish of ordinary potatoes? You can! Try my version.
A light, fresh dish! Yes, there are very, very many recipes for stuffed zucchini on the site, but mine also deserves to be tried, so I’ll take a chance.