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’s a recipe I found on the Internet. I can’t say that the salad is light, as well as cheese and mayonnaise, but I liked it, I hope you will like it too.
I want to offer you a recipe for a light and delicious salad. For the first time I tried it at a friend’s house, since then I often cook at home, my husband really likes it, and I like to crunch))
The site has two recipes for Shanghai salad and two more variants with similar names, all different and all a little similar. In my opinion, they are all too heavy. My version of the salad is very light, not weighted with unnecessary components.
Delicious and hearty salad of red beans and cheese. I’ve seen several similar recipes here, but I haven’t found them in this version. Try it, you won’t regret it!