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.
Delicious salad. Because of the beetroot, it’s a bit like a vinaigrette, but that’s not surprising: the presence of beetroot always makes me think of a vinaigrette.
Unusual? No, it seems that all the ingredients are the most common… Their combination is unusual. And the result is a very tasty and healthy salad with broccoli.
A hearty, nutritious salad with a piquant taste will be a good companion on a winter (and not only) day, can replace a full lunch or dinner. A very simple dish.
A light salad is quite suitable for an everyday menu. With the help of beans, it is quite possible to replace meat, since this product is close to fish and meat in terms of the amount of easily digestible proteins. As a food product, beans are versatile. It contains a large amount of starch and other carbohydrates, proteins. The composition of beans includes a rich set of vitamins necessary for the normal functioning of the body.
Celery contains a unique set of vitamins, proteins and minerals that support the human body in a stable state. I suggest you try a very light, very juicy and fresh salad. When guests arrive, this salad disappears first.
