The greatest I have ever tried, hands down!
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 15 mins |
| Servings: | 40 |
| Yield: | 1 1/2 quarts |
Ingredients
- 1 quart mayonnaise
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- 1 cup diced onion
- 1 cup finely chopped dill pickle
Instructions
- In a stainless steel or glass mixing bowl, combine the mayonnaise, lemon juice, onion, and dill pickle. Mix thoroughly. Transfer to a glass or plastic container with a tight lid and refrigerate.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 161 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 1 g |
| Cholesterol | 8 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 0 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 175 mg |
| Sugars | 1 g |
| Fat | 18 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This worked when I needed a tartar sauce. I thought it had too much mayo and needed more pickles, maybe even some of the pickle juice would have been good in it.
I am not a fan of raw onion so I took that out and added a little of the pickle juice and salt to taste. So good!
This is a copycat of Captain D’s tarter sauce. If Captain D’s is your guilty pleasure, this is it! It’s easy to make and you probably have all the ingredients. As a seafood lover, having a good sauce is key and this works on fried seafood from home AND as a replacement for nasty bottled and restaurant tarter sauces( I’m looking at you Red Lobster and Kraft). The first time I made this, I quartered the recipe but kept the measurements exact. 1 cup Mayo, 1/4 cup onion, 1/4 cup diced pickles, 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Now, I just eyeball it. The key is the keep the onion and pickle in equal amounts for balance. It tastes best after refrigerating overnight, I keep in an airtight glass container and it lasts for at least a week – it would probably last longer but we eat it all before then. Enjoy!
I add cayenne pepper flakes to add some heat, that is if you like spicy.
This is a great core recipe that can be dressed up in a lot of ways: capers. herbs. etc. We really like this!
I will definitely be making tarter sauce over buying it at the store. So delicious! Thank you!
Basic, solid recipe.
I was skeptical but it really is this easy to make delicious tartar sauce! My family gobbled it with baked fish! I will never buy a jar of the stuff again. YUM.
Because of another review, I initially cut back on the onions to 1 tablespoon while making. After tasting it, I ended up adding the entire 1/4 cup. So recipe as written is perfect for most in my family. (The one’s that would prefer it with 1 Tbsp don’t generally eat tartar sauce anyway.) This is so much better than store bought! YUM! Edited to add: I scaled the recipe back to 10 servings, using the built-in converter, so that started me out with a cup of mayo…and the rest of the measurements converted beautifully too.
tasted good. just added 1/8 tsp onion powder extra for personal preference.
I like a tartar sauce that’s a little sweet and tangy. Lots of flavour to enhance, not over power the fish. This one was very bland, I don’t think I’ll make it again.
No lemons so used lime, also added smoked paprika and cayenne pepper [friends love spicy stuff] but just a couple of shakes, has just an undertone of hot – very good! Will make again.
Way good!! Added some pepper too.
I thought this was pretty good. This is the first time I’ve had tartar sauce, and it went well with our zucchini patties (which are supposed to be like crab cakes, apparently). I think I will increase the lemon juice and decrease the dill pickles next time. I used bottled lemon juice, as it’s all I had on hand, so that may be part of the issue. Three large pickle chips minced to the 2 Tbs needed for the recipe scaled to 5 servings.
This was a great tartar sauce! Much better than the sweet relish ones-more like hellman’s and others (that only list pickles, not relish in their ingredients). I cut it down to 10 servings and it was perfect for 5 people! It may have gone farther had I truly diced the pickle and onion-they ended up being a bit large for fish sticks, but it worked out. I wouldn’t change anything.
REALLY easy to make, I added a bit of salt and pepper, garlic powder and paprika for extra flavor, and scaled it way down. It was a hit!
this was pretty good.. i used kraft mayo with olive oil and doubled the lemon juice.. this is very onion-y.. bf likes onions so it works but if i were making this for myself i’d probably cut the amount in half.. ty for the recipe
I found the dill pickles I used too salty. The lemon juice helped a little with this. I only made a small bowl of the sauce with about 3 pickles, a cup of mayo and a squeeze of lemon. Very easy recipe….much tastier than from a jar. Ellen
Very good
Followed the recipe as is and it was great.
I used this recipe to make tartar sauce for the first time, easily halved the recipe, and it was a HUGE hit. Everyone said that it was the best tartar they’d ever had! I didn’t add quite as much onion, and probably a little extra pickle, but it had such simple, yet delicious flavor! This will be my go-to tartar sauce recipe!