This easy homemade tarter sauce recipe has four main ingredients that can be built upon or eaten as is! Combine equal parts mayonnaise and diced pickles with a little vinegar and salt. Fast and simple tarter sauce is done!

Side view of wood bowl filled with white mayonnaise sauce with pickles. Close up.

How To Make A Simple Tarter Sauce At Home

Making tarter sauce at home with some basic pantry staples. A simple tarter sauce combines mayonnaise with pickles, vinegar like apple cider or white wine vinegar (or lemon juice), and salt to taste.

I like equal parts mayonnaise and pickles and sometimes even more pickles than mayonnaise.

Side view of wood bowl filled with white mayonnaise sauce with pickles.

Ya Basic Tarter Sauce Variations

This simple homemade tarter sauce recipe can be made into different variations. Try adding:

diced capers
a dash of old bay seasoning
a dash of cayenne pepper
fresh or dried dill or other herbs like chives, thyme, parsley, or rosemary
a dash of dijon mustard
a dash of Worcestershire Sauce
a wee bit of onions
fresh lemon juice instead of vinegar.
lemon zest
cornichons instead of pickles

Serving Suggestion

Serve this easy homemade tarter sauce recipe with a complementary side dish like:

Things In My Kitchen:

Teak Wood Cutting Board - Sustainably harvested, easy on knives, got the juice grooves, and pretty.
Microplane zester - Zesting a wee bit of onion for tarter sauce

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