Mustard is one of the most famous and popular spices in the world. Its unusual savory taste helps to shade the taste of meat or fish, makes the taste of pickles more interesting. However, in cooking it is most often used not in the form of seeds or powder, but as a sauce. The simplest sauce, made almost exclusively from one mustard powder, is also called mustard, or, to be more precise, table mustard. Table mustard can vary in taste and degree of spiciness, which depend on the variety of seeds used. For example, Dijon mustard is made from seeds of black color, the softest, American - from white mustard, and Russian mustard, the sharpest of all presented, from the so-called blue-gray. Table mustard itself, although it may be served as an independent seasoning, often serves as a basis for creating other sauces that have a milder taste. This mustard sauce can be served with meat or fish, depending on the recipe used.
Cooking Features
If you are going to cook mustard sauce at home, it makes sense to learn the advice of experienced chefs.
- Choose the mustard variety for the sauce depending on how much savory sauce you want to get. If you have managed to purchase the required grade of mustard only in grains, you can easily grind them with the help of a coffee grinder.
- You should not use table mustard purchased in the store for making the sauce. It will be much tastier and healthier if you make it yourself at home from mustard powder.
- Do not use aluminum utensils for making mustard sauce. It reacts with the acidic products that make up the sauce, releasing harmful substances.
- It is best to store table mustard in glass containers, tightly closing them after use. Mustard sauce is stored in the same conditions, but much less time: as a rule, it should be used for a week or two, depending on which products are in the sauce.
- Ingredients like sugar and honey can enhance the savory taste of mustard. Butter, on the contrary, is designed to soften the taste of the future sauce. Add them at the end of cooking to adjust the spice of the sauce as you see fit.
Spicy mustard sauce is more suitable for meat dishes, especially fatty ones, and softer for fish dishes.
Table Mustard Recipe (on brine)
Composition:
- cucumber or cabbage pickle - 0, 25 l;
- table vinegar (9 percent) - 20 ml;
- sugar - 5 g;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- mustard powder - 100 g.
Method of preparation:
- Mix the brine with vinegar and sugar.
- Pouring it into a container of mustard powder in portions and stirring, prepare a composition that is thick in consistency like sour cream.
- Add the butter and stir.
If you want to get the mustard more spicy, you can add honey instead of sugar - it is it that most often includes Russian mustard recipes. For a milder taste, you can not add sugar at all, and increase the amount of oil in a half to two times.
Table mustard recipe without brine
Composition:
- mustard powder - 100 g;
- water - 100 ml;
- salt - 5 g;
- sugar - 5 g;
- apple cider vinegar (6%) - 100 ml;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- bay leaf - 1 pc .;
- carnation - 2 pcs .;
- cinnamon - 0, 5 sticks.
Method of preparation:
- Add spices, salt and sugar to the water. Strain and cool to room temperature brine.
- Mix the brine with vinegar and dilute the mustard powder with it.
- Pour in oil, mix.
Leave the mustard in the fridge for a few hours so that it is present. After that, it can be used as a separate seasoning or cooked mustard sauce based on it.
Simple Mustard Sauce Recipe
Composition:
- table mustard - 10 ml;
- vegetable oil - 100 ml;
- lemon juice - 20 ml;
- salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Mix the mustard with lemon juice.
- Add oil and salt to taste.
- Mix thoroughly.
This sauce is best used as a marinade for fish or meat. Although it can be served on the table, overflowing into a special bottle.
Classic Mustard Sauce Recipe
Composition:
- water - 0, 2 l;
- flour - 20 g;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- apple cider vinegar (6%) - 5 ml;
- table mustard - 5 ml;
- salt, sugar - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Pour oil into the pan and heat it.
- Add flour and fry for a minute or two.
- Introduce water in a thin stream while simultaneously whipping the contents of the pan with a whisk. It is necessary to avoid lumps.
- Cook a little until it starts to thicken.
- Add mustard, vinegar, salt and sugar, stir vigorously.
- Remove from heat and wait for the sauce to cool to room temperature, then put it in the refrigerator.
Classic mustard sauce can be served with any dish, including vegetables, meat, fish. However, for some products you can choose a sauce prepared according to special recipes.
Mustard Meat Sauce
Composition:
- butter - 20 g;
- shallots - 50 g;
- sour cream - 60 ml;
- wine vinegar (6%) - 20 ml;
- table mustard - 10 ml;
- salt, sugar, pepper - to taste;
- milk - 20 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Mix sour cream with mustard and dilute with milk.
- Cut the onion into small pieces and fry it until soft in the heated oil.
- Pour vinegar into the onion, add a mixture of sour cream and mustard after a minute. Stir and boil until the sauce has the desired consistency. 2-3 minutes before readiness add salt, sugar, spices to taste.
Mustard sauce is served cold to the meat, so after cooking it should be poured into a sauceboat and removed for several hours in the refrigerator.
Mustard fish sauce
Composition:
- lemon - 2 pcs .;
- salt - a pinch;
- cayenne pepper - on the tip of a knife;
- table mustard - 10 ml;
- fatty cream (for whipping) - as required.
Method of preparation:
- From the lemons squeeze the juice, dilute the mustard with it.
- Add salt and pepper. Whisk.
- Continuing to beat, enter in small portions of the cream, until you get a mass, the consistency of a thick sour cream.
It is better to serve the fish sauce immediately, until the cream begins to settle. However, if you are going to use the sauce in order to marinate in it or bake the fish, then you can let it stand for a couple of hours in the refrigerator.
Mustard sauce as in “McDonalds”
Composition:
- table mustard - 40 ml;
- mayonnaise - 20 ml;
- sugar - 20 g;
- water - 20 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Boil thick syrup of sugar and water.
- When the syrup has cooled slightly, add half the mustard to it and mix thoroughly.
- Add mayonnaise, mix again.
- In small pieces, stirring thoroughly each time, add the remaining mustard.
This mustard sauce will surely appeal to those who like McDonald's sauces.
Spicy Mustard Sauce
Composition:
- butter - 40 g;
- table mustard - 40 ml;
- flour - 35 g;
- sour cream - 20 ml;
- broth - 0, 5 l;
- lemon juice - 20 ml;
- yolk - 1 pc .;
- salt, sugar, dill - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Mustard mixed with sour cream and lemon juice.
- Mash sugar with chicken yolk.
- Mix the yolk and mustard cream mass.
- Melt butter in a pan, fry the flour in it.
- Pour broth into the pan in a thin stream, whipping it simultaneously with a whisk.
- Salt, add if desired finely chopped dill, cook for 2 minutes.
- Remove from heat, let stand for a while.
- Add a lot of sour cream with mustard and egg, whisk with a whisk or a mixer. It is important that egg white does not get into the dish, since it will immediately curl up and spoil the taste and appearance of the sauce.
This gentle mustard sauce is versatile. However, it must be cooked carefully to prevent the yolk from collapsing. In addition, eggs should be only from healthy chicken. If you are not sure about the quality of the eggs you have bought, cooking mustard sauce with this recipe should be discarded.
Mustard sauce is one of the universal savory seasonings. Its sharpness is easy to vary, reducing or adding the amount of mustard. Serve mustard sauce can be fish, meat, vegetables.
