Homemade dressings and sauces
If you tend to buy shop-bought – stop right there. It’s so easy to make your own dressings and sauces like vinaigrettes, dips and mayonnaises – and you can easily adjust the flavours to suit your taste. We’ve also popped in a homemade butter, you could try that in your homemade hollandaise!
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Condiment recipes
Salad cream
Learn how to make your own salad cream with our easy, one-step recipe. This versatile condiment works as a dip, dressing and sandwich filler.
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Classic sauces
Sauce suprême
Adam Byatt shares his stellar recipe for sauce suprême. This classic French sauce is made by enriching a velouté with cream and lemon.
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Homemade dressings and sauces
Peppercorn sauce
Chef Adam Byatt shares his recipe for easy peppercorn sauce with brandy. It's the perfect partner for a juicy steak.
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White pol sambol
Fresh, fiery, sweet and sour all at once, pol sambol is a Sri Lankan relish made of finely ground or grated coconut with chilli and lime.
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Homemade dressings and sauces
Andrew Wong’s black bean sauce
Andrew Wong shares his recipe for Chinese black bean sauce. Serve as relish, folded into fried rice or loosen to use as a stir-fry sauce.
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Andrew Wong’s ginger and spring onion relish
Andrew Wong shares his recipe for ginger and spring onion relish. This scallion sauce is a staple of Cantonese cooking. Try it with chicken.
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Celebrity chef recipes
Andrew Wong’s beef ‘XO’ sauce
Umami-rich XO sauce is usually made with dried seafood, but here chef Andrew Wong shows you how to make a flavoursome XO sauce with beef.
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Caribbean
Green seasoning
Green seasoning is a Caribbean cooking staple. This mix of herbs, aromatics, salt and pepper is used for marinade, in sauces and stews.
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Classic sauces
Homemade mayonnaise
Homemade mayo is a completely different beast to shop bought, as you'll discover when you make our ultimate mayonnaise recipe.
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Fermented foods
Fermented hot sauce
Learn how to make fermented hot sauce with James Read's easy recipe. All you need are chillies, salt, a sterlised jar... and time.
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Homemade dressings and sauces
Green sauce
Make a big batch of this green herby sauce, store it in the freezer and you’ll be able to create delicious dishes at the drop of a hat.
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Tomatoes
Homemade tomato ketchup
Have a go at making homemade ketchup with our easy recipe. Packed with tomatoes, it contains less sugar and salt than shop-bought ketchup.
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Homemade herby salsa
Use any soft herbs to make this zingy green salsa. Drizzle over everything from everything from breakfast eggs and grilled chicken to salads.
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Spicy recipes
Sambal
Sambal is a fragrant chilli paste used as a condiment primarily in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore – and has countless variations. Try making your own!
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Wild garlic
Wild garlic oil
This bright green oil captures the intensely garlicky, slightly grassy flavour of wild garlic and lasts months in the freezer.
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Favourite chicken
Homemade chicken stock
This base recipe for brown chicken stock is endlessly versatile. Freeze, or use immediately to add bags of flavour to sauces, stews and soup.
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