Everyone knows that mayonnaise is made on the basis of lean butter and eggs, so this sauce cannot be eaten during fasting.
What to do if fasting falls on holidays, and really want to make salads with mayonnaise?
It turns out that there is a way out!
Recently, lean mayonnaise appeared on store shelves. However, this sauce contains preservatives and other harmful substances. Today we will tell you how to make homemade mayonnaise yourself at home.
Fasting mayonnaise at home - the basic principles of cooking
The composition of this mayonnaise includes vegetable oil, mushroom or vegetable broth, flour or starch, sugar, mustard, spices and salt. You can experiment with ingredients. Greens, nuts or apples are added to the sauce.
To make mayonnaise thick, make flour, and only then add the rest of the ingredients. The thickness of the sauce can be adjusted by the amount of flour. Water is combined with flour, knead well, to avoid lumps, and bring to a boil. Cool, season with salt and pepper and stir.
Then add mustard and sugar, pour in lemon juice and beat with a blender for a minute. After that, a thin stream pour in vegetable oil and continue to beat for another seven minutes. That's all, delicious and natural lean mayonnaise is ready!
Recipe 1. Lenten mayonnaise
Ingredients
flour - a glass;
water - 750 ml;
sugar - 50 g;
refined vegetable oil - 160 ml;
10 g of salt;
mustard - 60 g;
lemon juice - 70 ml.
Method of preparation
1. Sift the flour in a saucepan, add a little water and rub well, so that there are no lumps. Then pour the rest of the water into this mixture, put it on the stove and boil, stirring continuously. The mixture should be thick enough.
2. Mix vegetable oil, salt, mustard, sugar and lemon juice in deep dishes. Beat everything a couple of minutes. Enter the brewed flour in small portions, but do not stop beating. Put the finished mayonnaise in a dry glass container and store in the refrigerator.
Recipe 2. Lean mayonnaise on starch
Ingredients
vegetable or mushroom broth - half a cup;
mustard - 1 tsp;
any vegetable oil - half a cup;
sugar and salt;
starch - 50 g;
lemon juice or apple cider vinegar - two tsp.
Method of preparation
1. Pour some broth into starch and grind to homogeneity. Heat the remaining broth in a skillet, pour a lot of starch into it and keep it on very slow fire until the mixture boils.
2. In a separate deep plate, combine the butter with mustard and lemon juice, season with salt and sugar. Ostuzhenny “Kissel” from starch, beat with a blender, gradually pouring in the oil with spices. Mayonnaise density is adjustable by adding broth. Lean mayonnaise is used for salad dressing or as a sauce for main dishes.
Recipe 3. Lean mayonnaise in vegetable broth
Ingredients
vegetable broth - half a cup;
starch - 20 g;
vegetable oil - a glass;
lemon juice - 10 ml;
mustard - 5 g;
salt and sugar.
Method of preparation
1. To start, cook vegetable broth. Peel the onions, celery and carrots and put them in the pan. Fill the water and put on the stove, cook the broth for half an hour and filter.
2. Take half a cup of broth, half pour into a deep plate, and dilute the starch in it.
3. Pour the remaining broth into a small saucepan, boil, and, without ceasing to stir, gradually introduce the diluted starch. Well stir and remove from heat. Cool the resulting vegetable kissel, transfer it to a deep container and mix with spices. Add to it about a good pinch of sugar and salt, as well as lemon juice and mustard. Beat with a mixer until smooth.
4. In the end, gradually pour in a glass of any lean oil, without ceasing to beat, until the mixture becomes homogeneous.
Recipe 4. Lean mayonnaise at home from whole-wheat flour
Ingredients
olive oil - 80 ml;
salt - 10 g;
whole grain flour - half a cup;
sugar - 20 g;
lemon juice - 30 g;
water - one and a half glasses;
mustard - 50 g
Method of preparation
1. Sifted flour diluted with a small amount of water. Mix well to avoid lumps. We pour in the rest of the water, send the container to a low heat, and constantly stirring, bring to a boil. Turn off the fire and cool. 2. In a deep bowl we combine olive oil with lemon juice and mustard, sprinkle with salt and sugar. Beat with a blender, gradually introducing the cooled brewed flour. We continue to beat for about five minutes. If you do not have whole-wheat flour, you can substitute bran, mixed with regular flour.
Recipe 5. Lean mayonnaise at home on pea flakes
Ingredients
pea flakes - Art. spoon;
mustard - 10 g;
water - 120 ml;
lemon juice - 20 g;
vegetable oil - 140 g;
sugar - pinch;
spices and salt.
Method of preparation
1. Pour pea flakes into a saucepan and fill them with water. We put on the stove, add sugar and cook over low heat to boil the flakes. Remove from the stove and grind blender into a homogeneous mass.
2. Pour vegetable oil into the bowl of the blender, spread the ground pea mixture on top.
3. Beat until smooth. At the end add the mustard, salt and lemon juice. We continue to beat another five minutes. We shift the mayonnaise in a dry glass container and store in the refrigerator.
Recipe 6. Lean mayonnaise at home on walnuts
Ingredients
walnuts or almonds - a glass;
three art. spoons of warm water;
half a cup of vegetable oil;
mustard powder, apple cider vinegar, salt and sugar - 5 grams each.
Method of preparation
1. Grind nuts in a coffee grinder. Pour them into a deep bowl and mix with sugar and salt.
2. Mustard powder diluted with water and poured to the nuts. All is well stirred to make a thick porridge.
3. Gradually add refined vegetable oil to the base for the sauce. We rub it in a lot of nuts. It should make a mixture reminiscent of raw shortbread dough. We rub the received mask long enough. Add the vinegar in small portions and mix well until the sauce has the desired consistency. Ready mayonnaise seasoned with crushed garlic and chopped dill.
Recipe 7. Apple vegetable mayonnaise
Ingredients
two apples;
salt and sugar - on a pinch;
lean oil - 100 ml;
ginger, cinnamon and pepper;
lemon juice - 5 ml;
20 g mustard.
Method of preparation 1. Peel the apples, cut them finely and put them in a saucepan. Sprinkle them with sugar and salt. Pour over lemon juice and simmer on low heat until soft. Boiled apples pound into a puree.
2. Put the mustard in applesauce, season with spices and start beating. Gradually add the oil, continuing to beat, until the mixture becomes smooth and uniform.
Recipe 8. Lean mayonnaise at home with soy milk
Ingredients
soy milk - 50 ml;
40 ml of vinegar;
clove of garlic;
50 ml of vegetable oil;
mustard beans and salt.
Method of preparation
1. Expand the mustard grain in a mortar. Peel the garlic, chop with a knife and rub with salt. Put in a stupa and mix all the seasonings in porridge.
2. Pour the soymilk into a deep container, add the pounded seasonings and beat everything together with a mixer. Pour in the vinegar and continue to beat until a thick foam appears.
3. Continue to beat at low speed, adding a little oil until a thick foam with small bubbles is obtained. Pour the mayonnaise in jars and put in the fridge, there it will become even thicker.
Lean mayonnaise at home - tips and tricks from experienced housewives
- All ingredients for mayonnaise should be at room temperature.
- If the mayonnaise is too thick, pour in a couple of tablespoons of water and mix well.
- You can add basil, dill or parsley to the finished mayonnaise. Garlic, finely chopped olives or grated ginger are also good as additives.
- For mayonnaise, use only refined oil.
- Start whipping the sauce at low speed, gradually increasing it.
- Add oil a little bit, without stopping whipping.
