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Tartar Sauce

This may be more of a rémoulade than a tartar sauce, but we've been making it this way since I came to the Oyster Bar. Has it changed at all since 1974? There's no way for me to know—but I doubt it.

Be sure the hard-cooked egg and potato are cold when you make this.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Makes about 2 3/4 cups

Ingredients

2 tablespoons chopped dill pickle
1 tablespoon chopped onion
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
1 1/2 teaspoons chopped green bell pepper
1 1/2 teaspoons nonpareil capers, drained
1 teaspoon chopped pitted green olives
1 small red-skinned potato, boiled until tender and chilled
1 large egg, hard-cooked and chilled
2 1/4 cups mayonnaise
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/4 teaspoon Old Bay seasoning

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Put the pickle, onion, parsley, bell pepper, capers, and olives into the bowl of a food processor. Pulse, scraping the bowl a couple of times, to make a 1/8-inch dice. Transfer to a mixing bowl.

    Step 2

    Peel the potato, chop it coarsely, and measure out ⅓ cup, packing it into the cup. Peel and coarsely chop the egg. Put both into the food processor and pulse, scraping the bowl a couple of times, until finely chopped but not minced. Scrape into the bowl with the pickle mixture.

    Step 3

    Add the mayonnaise, lemon juice, mustard, and Old Bay. Whisk or stir until well combined. Transfer to a covered container and refrigerate until needed. It will keep for about 1 week.

Reprinted with permission from The Grand Central Oyster Bar and Restaurant Cookbook: Recipes & Tales From A Classic American Restaurant by Sandy Ingber with Roy Finamore. Text copyright © 2013 Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant Franchising Co., Inc.; photographs copyright © 2012 by Iain Bagwell. Published in 2013 by Stewart, Tabori & Chang.
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