How to replace mayonnaise - 10 brilliant ideas for replacing greasy sauce

Family holidays and feasts in the countries of the former USSR rarely go without hearty salads: olivier, herring under a fur coat, mimosa. However, housewives who care about the health of family members and their own figure periodically think about what mayonnaise can be replaced with. After all, the product, although tasty, but high-calorie. We have prepared a New Year's gift for you - several options for alternative sauces that will make mayonnaise worthy of competition.

Where can I replace mayonnaise with sour cream?

In dumplings, casseroles and even in baking, sour cream is often replaced with mayonnaise. Is a reverse situation possible? In what dishes sour cream is appropriate instead of mayonnaise?

• Shawarma

If you grease a cake with sour cream, rather than mayonnaise, and prepare the filling only from fresh vegetables, you get a healthy dish. But do not use a dairy product with a fat content of less than 20%, otherwise the dough will get wet and tear during cooking.

• Canned stewed meat

Mayonnaise gives the finished dish a bright sweet-sour taste. But sour cream makes the meat more tender. Add 5 minutes before cooking to enhance flavor. Red pepper, marjoram, coriander are perfectly combined with beef, and black pepper, garlic and cardamom with pork.

• French meat

The composition of this dish includes tomatoes, potatoes, cheese, which even without the addition of mayonnaise have a rich taste and high calorie content.

But we do not recommend replacing sour cream with mayonnaise in other dishes (sandwiches, salads), otherwise they will turn out to be fresh. It is better to prepare a healthy sour cream sauce that has characteristics similar to mayonnaise (taste, smell, texture).

Mustard Sour Cream Sauce

The consistency and aroma is very similar to mayonnaise, so it is ideal for any puff salads.

Ingredients:

• boiled yolks - 2 pieces;
• sour cream (preferably 26%) - 180 grams;
• mustard (Russian, Dijon) - a tablespoon.

Cooking process:

1. Pound chicken yolks to a state of gruel, mix with mustard and add to sour cream.
2. Mix thoroughly and beat with a mixer until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.

The following additives will help make the taste more “mayonnaise”: salt, allspice, lemon juice. If you are not worried about your figure, add 1-2 teaspoons of olive oil to increase satiety.

Soya Sour Cream Sauce

More salty than the previous one. It goes well with meat, fish, seafood. Olivier is not suitable for salad.

Ingredients:

• sour cream (minimum 15%) - 200 grams;
• soy sauce - a tablespoon;
• garlic - a tablespoon of dry powder or 3 fresh cloves;
• dill is a twig.

Cooking process:

1. Add soy sauce to sour cream and mix.
2. Pound the garlic into the pulp, and finely chop the dill with a knife. Add sour cream and soy sauce to the mixture. Stir again.

If you want a sour tint, add a little wine vinegar. Do not use salt. It is already present in high concentration in soy sauce.

How to replace mayonnaise in your favorite salad?

The following popular salads are usually seasoned with mayonnaise: with crab sticks, with beets and prunes, olivier, herring under a fur coat, “Capercaillie Nest”, “Mimosa”. What is common between them?

• The presence of layers (except olivier and crab sticks). To draw borders between them, it is a thick rather than a liquid sauce that is required. Therefore, dairy products and vegetable oil are not suitable.
• A combination of a variety of ingredients: meat, fish, vegetables, cheese, dried fruits, nuts. To bring them into a single flavoring ensemble, you need a sauce with a sharper taste. Sour cream and cottage cheese with zero fat content are simply lost against the background of saturated components.

Thus, it is possible to replace mayonnaise in salad only with another fatty sauce with a strong taste. We offer you several options.

In Olivier

Sour cream-mustard sauce, the recipe of which was described above, is well suited for dressing this salad. However, it is almost as high in calories as mayonnaise. When dieting, it is better to prepare a sauce based on yogurt.

Zaziki sauce

Ingredients:

• unsweetened yogurt - 200 grams;
• small cucumber - 1 piece;
• olive oil - a tablespoon;
• garlic powder - a teaspoon;
• dill - a twig;
• salt is a pinch.

How to cook:

1. Grate the cucumber.
2. Put the resulting gruel in gauze and squeeze it well.
3. Chop the dill finely.
4. Add all other ingredients to the yogurt, including grated cucumber, and mix thoroughly.

Olivier salad with such dressing acquires a “summer” taste. Please note that ready-made zaziki sauce can be stored for no longer than 2 days.

In a herring under a fur coat

Yogurt, replacing mayonnaise in a "coat", due to poor compatibility with fish, can lead to digestive upset, like other dairy products (sour cream, cottage cheese). What then to make a thick impregnation?

Bean Sauce

The taste of fish goes well with legumes. And the crushed canned beans are suitable as a base for dressing due to the puree-like consistency.

Ingredients:

• canned white beans - a can;
• olive or sunflower oil - 4 tablespoons;
• Russian mustard - a tablespoon;
• lemon - 1 piece.

Cooking process:

1. Drain the jar of beans.
2. Pound the product to a slurry.
3. Peel the lemon and pass through a blender. Drain half the juice.
4. Combine the bean gruel, lemon puree, oil, and mustard until a smooth consistency is obtained.

This sauce is suitable not only for herring under a fur coat, but also for sandwiches, fish, meat.

In salads with seafood, "Mimosa"

Seafood again excludes the use of yogurt, sour cream and cottage cheese. Have you noticed that nuts are often added to fish salads? This is due to good taste compatibility. We offer you a recipe for an unusual dressing.

Peanut sauce

Ingredients:

• walnut (or pine) nuts - a mug;
• vegetable oil - a tablespoon;
• boiled yolks - 2 pieces;
• mustard - a teaspoon;
• lemon juice - 3 tablespoons;
• garlic - clove;
• water - 100 ml;
• salt is a pinch.

Stages of preparation:

1. Grind nuts. Add mustard, egg yolks, salt to them. Shuffle.
2. Pound garlic clove.
3. Pour in ¼ cup of water. Beat the mixture with a mixer.
4. After 1-2 minutes, pour in the remaining water, oil and lemon juice, add chopped garlic. Continue whisking the sauce for another minute.

Please note that the product contains high-calorie components - nuts and egg yolks. Do not use this sauce for dressing salads while following a diet.

Alternatives to Nutrition

How to replace mayonnaise with people who follow the principles of proper nutrition? You will have to ignore the "heavy" foods: egg yolks, sour cream from 15%, nuts and legumes. For simple vegetable salads, olive oil, lemon juice and apple cider vinegar are suitable. However, there are sauces that make the taste of diet foods brighter.

Curd sauce

Ingredients:

• soft cottage cheese 0-5% - 200 grams;
• garlic powder - a teaspoon;
• spice.

Just mix all the ingredients manually or with a blender. Any spices are suitable, but dill, parsley, Italian and French herbs are better combined with salads, and pepper and suneli hops with meat dishes.

Flax dressing

Ingredients:

• flax seeds - 2 tablespoons;
• wine vinegar - 2 tablespoons;
• salt is a pinch.

Procedure:

1. Soak the seeds in warm water for one hour.
2. Drain the liquid. Pour vinegar into the seeds and add a pinch of salt.
3. Beat mixture in a blender until gruel is obtained.

Dressing from flax seeds gives an unusual piquant taste to meat and fish, vegetable salads. Suitable for vegans and fasting people.

How to replace mayonnaise when baking in the oven?

When baking meat or fish in the oven, it is better to use the following ingredients in the sauce: pepper, mustard, adjika, tomatoes, horseradish, curry seasoning. We offer you an interesting recipe.

Spicy sauce

Ingredients:

• sunflower oil - 3 tablespoons;
• sour cream - 100 grams;
• apple vinegar - a tablespoon;
• mustard powder - a teaspoon;
• dry chili pepper - 0.5 teaspoon.

Mix all the ingredients and pass through the blender. Coat the meat with the sauce and let it marinate for at least 2 hours. Then put in the oven. The finished dish will have a golden red hue and a pleasant speck.

Conclusion

Thus, you can find a worthy replacement for mayonnaise in relation to any dishes. There are sauces with an exquisite taste and delicate texture for those who follow a diet. If you sit at work and rest passively for about 8 hours (for example, watching TV shows), do not throw extra calories into the body. Choose “light” refills for your favorite dishes.