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.
Very easy to prepare, inexpensive and very tasty salad for any holiday. You will need – fresh tomato, fresh cucumber, ham and hard cheese, and for dressing – traditional mayonnaise.
A very tasty salad, and the ingredients are minimal. Based on what was in the refrigerator for the New Year, it turned out very tasty, although initially there were doubts about the compatibility of crab sticks with chicken. I will show you how to cook one portion of salad, and you will increase the rate yourself, depending on the number of guests.
A very interesting combination of products… Of those who tried the salad, no one could immediately “taste” the pear. This gives the salad a piquancy, but remains completely unnoticeable.
A light but quite satisfying salad. I love these salads because of the opportunity to eat only them. Mushrooms and chicken give them richness, and pineapple gives the salad lightness. and you can experiment with salad dressing.
