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Mayonnaise
Recipe courtesy Laura Calder
- Total Time:
- 25 min
- Prep:
- 25 min |
- Inactive Prep:
- -- |
- Cook:
- --
- Level:
- Easy
- Yield:
- About 1 cup/250 ml
Ingredients
- 1 egg yolk, at room temperature
- Pinch salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon white wine tarragon vinegar
- About 1 cup/250 ml grape-seed oil (or vegetable, canola, or peanut)
- Lemon juice, to taste
- Pinch white pepper
Directions
Whisk together the egg yolk, salt, mustard, and vinegar in a roomy bowl.
To add the oil, start whisking the yolk mixture and let the oil fall from the spout, drop by drop, until you have achieved a thick, velvety mayonnaise.
Taste it.
Add lemon juice, salt, and pepper, to taste.
© Recipe courtesy Laura Calder