In my family, we have prepared mayonnaise this way for a very long time, long before manufactured mayonnaise was so inexpensively available. It is always delectable!
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 5 mins |
| Servings: | 16 |
| Yield: | 1 cup |
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon minced garlic
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon prepared yellow mustard
- ¾ cup vegetable or olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Combine the egg, garlic, lemon juice and mustard in the container of a blender or food processor. Blend until smooth, then blend on low speed while pouring oil into the blender in a fine stream as the mixture emulsifies and thickens.
- This recipe contains raw eggs. We recommend that pregnant women, young children, the elderly and the infirm do not consume raw eggs. Learn more about egg safety from our article,
Reviews
the flavor is great. however I can not get it to thicken. It comes out like a runny egg.
I saw in a previous review where the reviewer noted that the pusher in her food processor has holes in it! I used the pusher to pour the oil through, much better emulsion. Last batch I used half corn oil and half olive oil and I did not add any salt or pepper. It was a double batch so that I could flavor one batch with my home made chili sriracha sauce. I also did not have lemon juice but had fresh limes.
This is so good, and so easy with a food processor. It’s a great basic mayonnaise recipe that you can tweak to suit your own taste. I made it twice, once with Dijon, once with powdered Keen’s mustard. I like the one with the Keen’s better. Next time I’m going to add wasabi powder! I used a pasteurized egg (which you can’t buy in Canada as far as I know—I pasteurized it sous vide).
I made this just now just as listed I used pasturized eggs. Turned out very good
Unlike the picture my mayonaise was yellow due to the mustard.
Finally! a home made mayonnaise my children like. I did skip the garlic as I feel that would restrict it’s use. not every recipe calls far garlic. I can always add that as needed.
I will make it again but I will use less mustard next time.
Just as good as store bought but you control the ingredients. Excellent. I didnt have to fuss with it. Put all the ingredients in a bowl except oil and used my stick mixer while adding the oil. No fail
Solid recipe. I like it better that Chef John’s recipe (although his other stuff totally rocks). This recipe will be my go to for mayonnaise recipes. Excellent on sandwhiches!!!
a bit to much mustard.
This is absolutely my favorite mayonnaise recipe. We don’t use the store-bought stuff anymore in our house – we just use this!
Excellent recipe, worked great first time
Tasted nothing like mayonnaise.
Made it the other day but add 1/3 cup ketchup and 1/3 cup sweet pickle relish and it make good 1000 island dressing
This is a fantastic recipe! I made it exactly as written with organic olive oil. I used my stick blender, and it came together in 2 seconds. My kids and husband love it. Way better than store bought, which I will never buy again. I’ve even used this to make thousand island dressing. Omg, so good.
I added fresh chopped cilantro. Wonderful!
Very easy to make and it makes quite a bit for one egg. I got a little over a half cup. I used vegetable oil and a smoothie blender.
HAWT dog! This is Ahhhhmazing! I planned to make potatoe salad but ahh! I didn’t have any mayo. This saved the dinner! Thank you for sharing this. I also followed the advice of slowly blending in the veggie oil (I used grape seed oil) as well as using the juices from my canned minced garlic!
My Family and I thought it had NO taste! I finally added some salt and it was better, but I am looking for another mayonnaise recipe.
I just made this recipe, followed it exactly (used olive oil) and I regret to say it had a very bitter after taste. It looked good, was nice consistency but picked up a bad taste. Not to sure where the bitter came from… the yellow mustard most likely.. if I try it again I will try it as one person suggested, swapping out the mustard and lemon juice with white wine vinegar.
Can anyone tell me the secret to making mayonnaise? I have tried a blender, also a hand blender yet all I ever end up with is a yellow colored oily mess that smells like mayonnaise but is nothing more than eggs and oil. I’ve tried making it several times and always get the same results even though I add the oil very slowly and have the speed on high as everyone recommends. It doesn’t get thick or white or look anything like mayonnaise. That is the only reason that I am giving this recipe one star.