This sauce is native to Mahon, a city in Minorca, one of the islands of the Balearic archipelago. The usual ingredients included in the recipe are eggs, oil, lemon or vinegar and salt. However, you could also add pepper or mustard to the sauce for a flavor boost, as well as other condiments to prepare different sauces, such as tartar sauce, garlic mayonnaise or rémoulade. Also, mayonnaise can be a perfect accompaniment for sandwiches, salads, eggs and seafood, among others.
If you want to give a splash of color to your mayonnaise, you could add other ingredients such as cooked carrots (orange), cooked beet (pink), avocado (green), ketchup (pinkish red) or even black olives (black).
Here you have an easy recipe to prepare basic mayonnaise:
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Note that, as eggs could contain salmonella, you should use pasteurized eggs (in liquid or powder form). If you prefer not to use eggs, you could also prepare milk mayonnaise. To do it, replace the eggs by ¼ cup of room temperature milk (whether cow’s milk or soy milk). Then, follow the recipe as usual.
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