Everyone knows that mayonnaise is made on the basis of lean oil and eggs, so you can’t eat this sauce during fasting.
What to do if fasting falls on holidays, and really want to make salads with mayonnaise?
It turns out there is a way out!
Recently, on the shelves of stores appeared lean mayonnaise. However, this sauce contains preservatives and other harmful substances. Today we will tell you how to make homemade mayonnaise yourself at home.
Lean 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, brew the flour, and only then add the rest of the ingredients. The thickness of the sauce can be controlled by the amount of flour. Combine water with flour, knead well so that there are no 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, lean oil is poured into a thin stream and continued 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.
Cooking method
1. Sift the flour into a saucepan, add a little water and rub it well so that there are no lumps. Then pour the remaining water into this mixture, put on the stove and boil, stirring continuously. The mixture should be quite thick.
2. In a deep dish, mix vegetable oil, salt, mustard, sugar and lemon juice. 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 glass;
mustard - 1 tsp;
any vegetable oil - half a cup;
sugar and salt;
starch - 50 g;
lemon juice or apple cider vinegar - two tsp.
Cooking method
1. Pour a little broth into the starch and grind until smooth. We heat the remaining broth in a saucepan, pour the mass of starch into it and keep it on very low heat until the mixture boils.
2. In a separate deep plate, combine the butter with mustard and lemon juice, season with salt and sugar. Whisk the cooled “jelly” out of starch with a blender, gradually pouring oil with spices. The density of mayonnaise is adjustable by adding broth. Lean mayonnaise is used for salad dressing or as a sauce for main dishes.
Recipe 3. Lean mayonnaise on vegetable broth
Ingredients
vegetable broth - half a glass;
starch - 20 g;
vegetable oil - a glass;
lemon juice - 10 ml;
mustard - 5 g;
salt and sugar.
Cooking method
1. To begin, cook vegetable broth. Peel the onions, celery and carrots and put them in the pan. Fill the water and put it on the stove, cook the broth for half an hour and filter.
2. We take half a glass of broth, half pour into a deep plate, and plant starch in it.
3. The remaining broth is poured into a small stewpan, boiled, and, without ceasing to stir, gradually introduce diluted starch. Stir well and remove from the stove. 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. At the end, gradually pour a glass of any lean oil without ceasing to whisk 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.
Cooking method
1. Bred sifted flour with a small amount of water. Mix well so that there are no lumps. Pour 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, combine olive oil with lemon juice and mustard, sprinkle with salt and sugar. Beat with a blender, gradually introducing the cooled brewed flour. 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 - a pinch;
spices and salt.
Cooking method
1. Pour pea flakes into the stewpan 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 with a blender into a homogeneous mass.
2. Pour vegetable oil into the blender bowl, spread the ground pea mixture on top.
3. Beat until smooth. At the end, add mustard, salt and lemon juice. Continue to whisk for another five minutes. We shift the mayonnaise in a dry glass container and store in the refrigerator.
Recipe 6. Fasting mayonnaise at home on walnuts
Ingredients
walnuts or almonds - a glass;
three tbsp. tablespoons of warm water;
half a glass of vegetable oil;
mustard powder, apple cider vinegar, salt and sugar - 5 grams each.
Cooking method
1. Crush 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. Mix everything well to make a thick porridge.
3. Gradually add refined vegetable oil to the base for the sauce. Rub it into a mass of nuts. You should get a mixture that looks like raw shortcrust pastry. Rub the resulting mask long enough. Add vinegar in small portions and knead well until the sauce acquires the necessary 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 of mustard.
Cooking method
1. Peel the apples, finely chop and put in a saucepan. Sprinkle them with sugar and salt. Pour over lemon juice and simmer on low heat until soft. Chopped boiled apples in mashed potatoes.
2. Put the mustard in the applesauce, season with spices and start whipping. 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.
Cooking method
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 soy milk into a deep container, add the crushed seasonings and whisk together with a mixer. Pour in the vinegar and continue whisking until a dense foam appears.
3. Continue whisking 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 beating the sauce at low speed, gradually increasing it.
- Add oil a little bit, while not stopping whipping.
