Easy Homemade Tarter Sauce

This easy homemade tarter sauce recipe has four ingredients! Combine equal parts mayonnaise and diced pickles with a little vinegar and salt. 4 ingredient tarter sauce is done!

Relish is chopped up pickles with vinegar. Omit vinegar if using relish instead of chopped up pickles.

Serve this homemade tarter sauce recipe with crab cakes, lowcountry seafood boil, poached shrimp, or any seafood dishes.

How To Make A Simple Tarter Sauce At Home

Making tarter sauce at home with some basic pantry staples.

A simple and easy tarter sauce combines mayonnaise with pickles or relish, vinegar like apple cider or white wine vinegar (or lemon juice), and salt to taste.

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

Basic Tarter Sauce Ingredients

• ¾ cup mayonnaise
• ¾ cup chopped pickle
• 2 teaspoon white wine vinegar
• a dash of salt

This is a four ingredient tarter sauce recipe. Wanna make a three ingredient tarter sauce? Omit vinegar if using pickle relish instead of diced pickles. Premade relish already contains vinegar.

Basic Tarter Sauce Ingredient Additions

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

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