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.
Simple, but at the same time very tasty salad in French. It is prepared easily and quickly, from improvised products. Both adults and children like it.
This salad, which has long been loved by many, was prepared in different variations, but I want to share with you one more option. Surprisingly, made from the same ingredients, it turns out different. More tender and juicy. Ideal for serving portions.
I do not know why this salad has such a name, but it turns out very tasty and beautiful. Perfect for a festive table. It can be cooked both on a regular dish and in portions.
Each country probably has its own potato salad, because it is one of the most commonly used root vegetables. It’s always delicious and satisfying, and adding one or two new products only enriches it. In the Czech Republic, this salad is prepared for Christmas and served with carp. Delicious, inseparable tandem of Czech cuisine, try to recreate and enjoy.
This hearty, juicy and very pleasant-tasting salad belongs to German cuisine. Traditionally, in winter, it occupies an important place on Christmas tables in Germany and other Western European countries. All the ingredients are harmoniously matched, the salad turns out sooo interesting and delicious!
