Background: I think we have enough sauces now to introduce the concept of Super Sauces. These are not like the five mother sauces of French cuisine. They are more like super groups where a couple famous established sauces and–let’s be honest–usually a lesser known sauce come together for a while to preform together. The moves make Super Sauces, but they are micro moves.
- Combine Green Apple Tartar Sauce with Pecan Aioli for a mayo-based sauce that’s got it all.
- Mix Handmixer Mayo with Chipotle Ketchup.
- Fill a blender loosely with Roasted Peppers and then add the The Move for All Salad Dressings until the blender starts to blend everything together.
Why It Works:
- The Green Apple Tartar Sauce has strong flavor like capers, apples, strong herbs and alliums that are actually balanced with the nuttiness of the pecans and the pungency of the garlic. The green apple balances the pecan. The pickle-pops of the capers cuts the richness of the nuts, oil, and mayo. The wild onions harmonize with the garlic, but still sing their own notes. The cilantro can be heard in the mix among all the strong flavors. Plus, all the ingredients are great late-fall items, so mixed with leftover turkey around Thanksgiving, they make a great turkey salad sandwich. (Have I mentioned the great preservation power of sauces to keep meat from oxidizing? Put the turkey in there as soon as it’s chilled.)
- If I’m being honest, I find the Chipotle Ketchup too much. It’s too smokey. It’s too sweet. It’s texture is too cloying. It’s too spicy for many applications. Cut it with homemade mayo and you’ve got a totally different sauce where all the flavors and textures all kind of even each other out. I usually don’t stop there. See mod 2 below.
- This move can go a couple ways. Use spicy peppers and you are making a hot sauce. Use mild peppers and you are making a salad dressing.
Mods:
- Make the Green Apple Tartar Sauce with Handmixer Mayo instead of Duke’s then combine with Pecan Aioli.
- Add pickles to the Chipotle Ketchup Handmixer Mayo mashup and you’ve got a Chipotle 1000 Island dressing that’s great special sauce on a burger, binder for a chilled shrimp salad, dipping sauce for crab cakes, or spread for a great Reuben sandwich.
- Eighty-six the vinegar in The Move for All Salad Dressings, add garlic, and use jalapeñoes as the pepper and you are making Austin’s famous Doña sauce.
I love Super Sauces so you will be seeing more of them later.