Mayonnaise

Mayonnaise
  • Serves icon Makes about 200g
  • Time icon Ready in 10 minutes

The only basic mayonnaise recipe you will need. Trust us, good quality ingredients make all the difference to this quick and easy sauce. Check our tips from the food team, to make sure you get it right, every time.

Nutrition: per serving

Calories
112kcals
Fat
12.2g (1g saturated)
Protein
0.5g
Carbohydrates
0.1g (0.1g sugar)
Salt
trace salt
Calories
112kcals
Fat
12.2g (1g saturated)
Protein
0.5g
Carbohydrates
0.1g (0.1g sugar)
Salt
trace salt

Per tablespoon

Ingredients

  • 2 large free-range egg yolks, at room temperature
  • 2 tsp Dijon mustard
  • 2 tsp vinegar or lemon juice
  • 200ml cold-pressed rapeseed oil or mild vegetable oil

Method

  1. Whizz the egg yolks, mustard and vinegar or lemon juice in a food processor, then add the oil in a confident, steady stream äóñ you need keep up with the speed of the blades. It is ready when the blades leave a visible trail through the mayonnaise. Season to taste.
  2. To make it by hand, it is best to get someone to help. One of you holds the bowl steady and whisks, while the other adds the oil in a gentle, continuous drizzle. Season to taste. Note: if it curdles, remove it from the processor or bowl and set aside. Add 1 egg yolk and whizz or whisk briskly, slowly adding back the curdled mayo. The new egg should bring it back together.

delicious. tips

  1. Unlike its commercial cousins, home-made mayo is a raw egg product, so chill it and use within 3 days.

  2. Sometimes mayonnaise plays up. You will know if you have curdled a batch because it literally falls apart instead of becoming the luxurious, wibbly-wobbly emulsion. The most likely culprit is cold egg yolks from the fridge and ambient oil from your larder. To cut a food science story short, when you make mayo you are trying to bind the fats in the egg with those in the oil. If one is cold and the other isn’t, it won’t work.

     

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