Homemade Tartar Sauce Recipe

Homemade Tartar Recipe - Family Fresh Meals

As you all know, I’m a big fan of making your own salad dressing. Why shell out three bucks for a bottle full of unpronounceable ingredients, when you can whip up a delicious poppy seed dressing or cilantro lime ranch from real, fresh ingredients in a couple of minutes?

But why stop at salad dressing? Lots of things that come in a bottle at the store can also be made in your own kitchen. It’s cheaper, healthier…and usually not as hard as you think.

Take tartar sauce, for instance. This is the must-have condiment for all kinds of seafood dishes, from fried clams to salmon burgers. But what is it, really? Just a dressed-up version of mayonnaise. What could be easier to make yourself?

Homemade Tartar Sauce - Step 2

My Homemade Tartar Sauce recipe shows how easy it is to do. It has everything you’d find in a really fancy bottled tartar sauce, including onion, pickles, lemon, and capers. (If you don’t have capers at home, go out and grab a jar. They’re pricey, but they’re super packed with flavor, so a tiny spoonful goes a really long way. And they keep practically forever.)

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And what do you do with all these fancy ingredients? Just mix them with the mayo and refrigerate it. I’m serious…that’s it!

Homemade Tartar Sauce

Ingredients
1 cup of Mayonnaise
½ teaspoon Lemon juice
½ teaspoon Dill Pickle juice
½ teaspoon Capers, chopped
½ teaspoon Lemon zest
¼ teaspoon Onion, minced
2 teaspoons Dill Pickle relish
as desired Salt

Directions

1. Mix all ingredients together, leaving salt until the end. Taste for seasoning regarding how much salt you’d like to add. Refrigerate until cool and the ingredients combine!

Homemade Tartar Sauce - Step 1

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Homemade Tartar Sauce

Author Corey Valley
My Homemade Tartar Sauce recipe is a super easy recipe and I bet you already have most of the ingredients in your kitchen now!
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes

Ingredients
 

  • 1 cup of Mayonnaise
  • ½ teaspoon Lemon juice
  • ½ teaspoon Dill Pickle juice
  • ½ teaspoon Capers chopped
  • ½ teaspoon Lemon zest
  • ¼ teaspoon Onion minced
  • 2 teaspoons Dill Pickle relish
  • as desired Salt

Instructions

  • Mix all ingredients together, leaving salt until the end. Taste for seasoning regarding how much salt you’d like to add. Refrigerate until cool and the ingredients combine!

Nutrition

Calories: 136kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 0.3g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.03g | Cholesterol: 9mg | Sodium: 507mg | Potassium: 21mg | Fiber: 0.1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 44IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 0.1mg

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12 Comments

  1. Do you use sweet pickle or dill? I usually use dill in my recipe.

    1. I use dill, but have a friend who tried it with sweet and loved it too. I guess it just depends on your taste. Do you usually prefer one of the other for other things?

  2. 5 stars
    Gee, I never thought to add capers to my tarter sauce! I wish that I had your recipe yesterday, since I made a bowl of tarter sauce to have with our clam rolls last night. I’ll definitely add some capers next time. Otherwise, my ingredients were pretty much the same as yours. BTW, do you prefer using sweet pickle relish or dill pickle relish? I suppose it’s a matter of preference. Also, I always use Hellman’s mayo (for everything), but some folks prefer Miracle Whip Salad Dressing for tarter sauce. What do you use?

    1. I use dill, but have a friend who tried it with sweet and loved it too. I guess it just depends on your taste.

  3. Donnie Killeen says:

    Your recipe calls for pickle juice ..do you use dill or sweet juice ??? It doesn’t say .

    1. I use dill Donnie 🙂

      1. Donnie Killeen says:

        Thank you . 🙂

  4. Ken Plank says:

    5 stars
    Pickle relish? Sweet or Dill?

    1. I use dill, but have a friend who tried it with sweet and loved it too. I guess it just depends on your taste. Do you usually prefer one of the other for other things?

  5. 5 stars
    What is the shelf life of this homemade tartar sauce?

  6. Is the relish sweet or dill? I can’t wait to try this.

    1. Cheryl, I use dill, but have a friend who tried it with sweet and loved it too. I guess it just depends on your taste. Do you usually prefer one of the other for other things?