Homemade Cocktail Sauce

A cocktail sauce is often served as an appetizer sauce for cold meat or fish. But even at a leisurely barbecue cocktail sauce is a must have. The base of the cocktail sauce is made of mayonnaise and is individually prepared with different spices and ingredients according to taste.

In today’s post I will show you how to make your own cocktail sauce with tomato ketchup, orange juice and a dash of brandy. Have fun!

Homemade: Homemade Cocktail Sauce
Difficulty: Easy – Medium
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
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Homemade Cocktail Sauce

Ingredients for about 500 – 600 milliliters of cocktail sauce:

• 2 eggs
• 250 milliliters of vegetable oil
• 150 grams of tomato ketchup
• 100 grams of yoghurt
• 50 grams of crème fraîche
• ½ lemon
• ½ orange
• 1 tablespoon of cremed horseradish
• 1 teaspoon of mustard
• A dash of brandy
• Salt & pepper

Required kitchen gadgets, helper & preparations:

• Bowl
• Whisk
• Lemon juicer
• Grater

Instructions for the homemade cocktail sauce:

Separate eggs into yolks and whites. Squeeze the lemon with a citrus press. Place the egg yolks in a mixing bowl along with a teaspoon of mustard, lemon juice and a good pinch of salt and pepper. Mix thoroughly with a whisk for about 1 minute, then add a small sip of plant oil and stir until the oil is completely incorporated.

Then add a little more oil and stir into the egg yolk with a whisk. Repeat the whole thing until all the oil has been stirred in and the mayonnaise has a relatively firm but still thick consistency. Then add 150 grams of ketchup, 100 grams of natural yogurt, 50 grams of crème fraîche & 1 tablespoon of horseradish cream, also pour in a good sip of brandy and finally add the zest and the juice of ½ organic orange.

Stir everything with a whisk so that all the ingredients can be distributed evenly and then serve in dip bowls if necessary. Have fun imitating!