This versatile sauce makes every dinner an adventure.

Now that you know how to make a healthy and tasty mayonnaise in a snap you can use that mayo to make Aioli.  Aioli is a traditional French sauce using oil and garlic, with some lemon juice and it is made pretty much as you would mayonnaise except adding the garlic.  I prefer to make a couple of batch of mayonnaise instead and then flavor what I want and need for this week’s menu.  There are different types of Aioli in different parts of Europe including an Allioli in Italy that is a bit different but delicious spread on garlic bread.  I will have to try it on some gluten free bread sometime.

Aioli is great served with fish and crab but it is also a tasty sauce for sandwiches, burgers, and chicken.  What is wonderful about it is you can change it up and add different flavors and have an entirely different experience and a different dish.  Ingredients like tamari (naturally fermented) and horseradish add a delicious flavor as a dip with Asian style tempura fried mushrooms.  You can also add horseradish and a bit of cayenne and serve on a grilled chicken breast sandwich with lettuce and tomato fresh from the garden… mmm my favorite!

Basic Aioli

1 cup Naturally Texan Mayonnaise
3 to 6 fresh garlic cloves, minced*
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Real Celtic Sea Salt and fresh ground organic pepper to taste

In a non-reactive mixing bowl (glass is best), mix the ingredients together until incorporated.  Cover and chill for a minimum of 30 minutes however this sauce tastes best a few hours later or the next day when the flavors have had time to meld and saturate the mayonnaise.

*Do not use sprouted garlic or garlic that has gone green.  It will be terribly bitter.  The size of the cloves and your taste for garlic dictate how many to use.  Also what you are serving it with.  If it’s a delicate fish or crab you wouldn’t want to over power it but if you are just using it as a condiment on burgers then for me, the more the better. I love garlic.

Mix it up:

Texan style chipotle Aioli -

Add 1 tbsp minced chipotles in adobo sauce and 1 tsp raw honey (from a local farmer is possible, if not see the brand I like at Amazon.com YS Royal Jelly/Honey Bee – Raw Honey, 22 oz gel
)

Enjoy!