Holiday tartar sauce: Elevate festive dishes with pickled mushrooms
For the holidays, I make tartar sauce with pickled mushrooms, which perfectly enhance its flavour. This sauce complements both herring and holiday pâtés. If you enjoy spicy additions, consider adding a hot pickled pepper. Using homemade preserves—pickles and fermented cucumbers—can help save on holiday expenses.
The recipe for sauce with pickled mushrooms will appeal not only to those looking for ideas to use up pantry jars but also to anyone who appreciates a simple and well-balanced composition. The sauce combines salty and sour flavours, with hard-boiled eggs adding a thick and creamy texture. It works well not only for the holidays but also as a spread for sandwiches on any other day of the year.
Pickled mushrooms in tartar sauce
You can add pickled bay boletes or other mushrooms preserved in vinegar brine to the sauce. Popular button mushrooms will also work. However, before you start chopping them into small cubes, drain them thoroughly from the brine. Otherwise, the sauce may become too runny and overly sour.
How to make sauce with pickled mushrooms for the holidays?
The classic recipe for tartar sauce typically includes capers, but they are not necessary in this composition. Vinegar mushrooms ensure the sauce is sour enough. Thanks to juicy additions, it brings lightness and zest to dishes.
Ingredients:
- 1 jar of pickled mushrooms
- 2 fermented cucumbers
- 1 small onion
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons of 12% or 18% sour cream
- 1/2 teaspoon of table mustard
- 1 teaspoon chopped dill
- A pinch of sugar and a bit of lemon juice
Instructions:
- Boil the eggs until hard, cool, peel, and chop them into small cubes.
- Drain the fermented cucumbers and pickled mushrooms from the brine, chopping them into small cubes as well.
- Finely chop the onion.
- Place all ingredients in a bowl, adding mayonnaise, sour cream, a bit of mustard, a pinch of sugar, and a few drops of lemon juice. Mix in the chopped dill.
- Optionally, add finely chopped pickled pepper or chives, such as those from green onions.
What dishes go well with tartar sauce?
Tartar sauce with pickled mushrooms pairs beautifully not only with herring or boiled eggs but can also be served with fries, fried fish, or chicken strips. It excellently enhances the taste of roasted meats and serves as a unique addition to sandwiches with homemade cold cuts, such as roasted ham, pork loin, or pork neck.
