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Lighter Tartar Sauce

By America's Test Kitchen

Published on August 22, 2007

Yield

Serves 4 (Makes about 1/2 cup)

Lighter Tartar Sauce

Ingredients

¼ cup reduced-fat mayonnaise 2 tablespoons low-fat sour cream 3 cornichons, minced (about 1 ½ tablespoons), plus 2 teaspoons of the pickling juice2 tablespoons minced red onion 1 tablespoon capers, rinsed and mincedWater

Before You Begin

This recipe was published in our cook book The Best Light Recipe.

Instructions

  1. Mix all the ingredients together, adding water as needed to thin the sauce out. Cover and refrigerate until the flavors blend, about 30 minutes. (The sauce can be refrigerated for several days.)
Lighter Tartar Sauce

Lighter Tartar Sauce

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Yield

Serves 4 (Makes about 1/2 cup)

Ingredients

¼ cup reduced-fat mayonnaise
2 tablespoons low-fat sour cream
3 cornichons, minced (about 1 ½ tablespoons), plus 2 teaspoons of the pickling juice
2 tablespoons minced red onion
1 tablespoon capers, rinsed and minced
Water

Ingredients

¼ cup reduced-fat mayonnaise
2 tablespoons low-fat sour cream
3 cornichons, minced (about 1 ½ tablespoons), plus 2 teaspoons of the pickling juice
2 tablespoons minced red onion
1 tablespoon capers, rinsed and minced
Water

Ingredients

¼ cup reduced-fat mayonnaise
2 tablespoons low-fat sour cream
3 cornichons, minced (about 1 ½ tablespoons), plus 2 teaspoons of the pickling juice
2 tablespoons minced red onion
1 tablespoon capers, rinsed and minced
Water

Why This Recipe Works

For a crunchy and delicious oven-fried fish recipe that would allow us to reap the nutritional benefits of the fish itself, we turned to Melba-toast crumbs, moistened with a little vegetable oil, for a crunchy coating. Oven-baking was the obvious choice over deep-fat frying; the fish became gold and crunchy when baked with vegetable cooking spray.

Before You Begin

This recipe was published in our cook book The Best Light Recipe.

Instructions

  1. Mix all the ingredients together, adding water as needed to thin the sauce out. Cover and refrigerate until the flavors blend, about 30 minutes. (The sauce can be refrigerated for several days.)

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