tartar sauce

Creamy seafood condiment

Tartar sauce is a mayonnaise-based condiment mixed with chopped pickles, capers, onions, or herbs.

It's the traditional accompaniment to fried fish and seafood: Fish and chips with tartar sauce.

The name comes from sauce tartare in French cuisine, not from any connection to Tartars.

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dill · vinegar · fish · gherkins · haddock · lemon · pickles · sauce · condiment · fish and chips · crab cakes · beer batter · aioli · creamy · dipping · side dish · fried fish · fish fry

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Family

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Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G