Jalapeno Lime Tartar Sauce
This is a delicious sauce for fried fish and seafood. We were inspired to purchase pickled jalapenos from Sara Moulton. These are available right near the pickles in the grocery store. We find our first use for them tonight in a variation on a traditional tartar sauce. Originally served as part of: Clam Strips and Boiled Red Potatoes.
- Tartar Sauce (April 29, 2003)
- Olive Mayonnaise (May 13, 2003)
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup light mayonnaise (Hellmann's)
- 1 tablespoon pickled slices jalapeno (drained and chopped)
- 1 tablespoon red onion (peeled and minced)
- 1 large lime
- 1 tablespoon fresh cilantro (cleaned and chopped)
Instructions
We combine the mayo, jalapeno, and red onion in a medium bowl. We rinse our lime and cut it in half. We squeeze a lime half into a measuring cup, yielding 1 tablespoon. We add this to the bowl with the cilantro and refrigerate the sauce covered until we are ready to serve. We slice the remaining lime half for garnish with the meal.
Ingredients
- ¼ cup light mayonnaise (Hellmann's)
- 1 tbsp pickled jalapeño slices (drained and chopped)
- 1 tbsp red onion (minced)
- 1 large lime (halved)
- 1 tbsp fresh cilantro (chopped)
Instructions
What's a kid job?
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- Little ones (about 2 to 4) can stir, pour in ingredients a grown-up has measured, tear lettuce, wash vegetables and sprinkle toppings.
- Older kids (about 5 to 8) can also measure and level, crack eggs, whisk, roll and cut out dough, and put things together.
- Bigger kids can read the recipe aloud, keep track of the timer, and take on more of the cooking as they're ready.
Steps with a knife, microplane, skewers, stove, oven, grill or hot oil, or with raw meat, poultry or seafood, are marked Grown-up. Kids can still watch those, from a safe distance.
Kid job
Mix the mayo, jalapeño and onion in a bowl. Squeeze in half the lime (about 1 tablespoon), add the cilantro, and refrigerate covered. Slice the other half for garnish.