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.
How do you look at making a delicious, light salad with just three ingredients? Cooking this delicious salad will not take you much time. Its lightness and taste will not leave you indifferent.
The delicate taste of this salad will appeal to even the most picky guest! If desired, mayonnaise can be replaced with sour cream, and the salad will turn out to be less caloric.
French salads include their tenderness and elegance of presentation. This salad fully combines these features. Each of the products laid in neat layers brings its own unique shade to a single harmonious taste of the salad.
A very easy-to-prepare hearty salad. It was on the menu of the Hans brewery, which my family and I visited this summer in our seaside capital Vladivostok. There is no beer in its composition, it is implied that it is served with beer.
This salad is simply amazing! A minimal set of ingredients, easy to prepare, and how delicious! By the name I want to emphasize that the salad is good both by itself and as an appetizer for a buffet, if served, for example, in tartlets, steers, snack eclairs, etc.
A very fast, delicious and tender salad made from available products. Once upon a time I looked at a salad in a recipe book, since then I often cook it at home. The most important thing is that men also eat this salad with pleasure.
A hearty and at the same time fresh salad, which is not a shame to put on the festive table, because it looks very elegant. The number of products is arbitrary, something more, something less, according to your taste. I put it together literally from what I found in the refrigerator. It was amazing.
