
Quick tartar sauce
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Easy
- Serves 6
Make an easy tartar sauce with the classic trio of mayonnaise, gherkins and capers. Sharp and tangy, it's perfect with crispy battered fish and chips
- Low sugar
- Nut-free
- Vegetarian
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Golden beer-battered fish with chips
Cooking cod, hake or haddock in a super-crispy fish batter made from sparkling water steams the fish so it's really moist
- 6 tbsp mayonnaise
- 1 gherkinor 6 cornichons, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp capersrinsed and chopped
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp chopped parsley
- 2 tsp chopped tarragon
Nutrition: per tbsp
- kcal105
- fat11g
- saturates1g
- carbs0.5g
- sugars0.5glow
- fibre0.1g
- protein0.3g
- salt0.22g
Method
step 1
Mix the mayonnaise, chopped gherkin or cornichons, capers, lemon juice, parsley and tarragon in a bowl and season.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2012
Comments, questions and tips (6)
Overall rating
lynn.brooks@live.com
I love this tartar sauce. It’s so quick to make and it’s so tasty.
trivet07choirs68678
I wish recipes had alternatives for fresh herbs. I very rarely have fresh herbs. Very rarely. This recipe would be great if i could just grab my dry herb jars, jar of mayonnaise and pickles and make some tartar sauce.

goodfoodteam
Hello, a general rule of thumb is to use 1/3rd dry herbs to fresh herbs. So for this recipe it would be 1 tsp dried parsley and 2/3rds tsp dried tarragon. Thanks for your question - Good Food Team.
morrisinpanama
You can dried herbs, no real difference
sandyblow9491
If this only keeps in the fridge for 2 or 3 days, what does the commercial sauce contain that lets it keep for months in the jar? thank you Sandy.
dave.bebb
It'll keep a lot longer than that if you use shop bought mayonnaise, which lasts for months in the fridge once opened. I made some using this recipe and it was absolutely fine for a couple of months.
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Delicious, and so easy to make, I will never buy another jar again