Clean Tartare Sauce

This is a great recipe for tartare sauce lovers as it tastes great but contains much cleaner ingredients, meaning that you no longer have to feel guilty about such a delightful snack! Tartare sauce is traditionally made using a base of sour cream or mayonnaise, but my recipe instead uses Greek yogurt and still tastes just as great. In fact, I can barely notice a difference! 

This sauce is also a great alternative to mayonnaise for a coleslaw dressing.

Serves: 8  (makes about 1.5 cups of sauce)

Ingredients:

1 x cup of Greek yogurt

1 x teaspoon of paprika

3 x shallot sprigs or 1 x small Spanish onion (I used shallots)

1 x handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley

4 x small preserved gherkins

Method:

1. Finely slice the shallots, parsley and gherkins and place in a medium sized bowl.

2. Add the paprika and Greek yogurt and stir until well combined.

3. Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days (depending on how fresh the ingredients that you used were).

Benefits of Greek yogurt

-          Protein:  ‘An eight-ounce serving of Greek yogurt contains about 20 grams of protein.’

-          Probiotics:  can help with ‘Ensuring proper digestion, absorption of nutrients and immune health' (Helmlinger, N.d).

References:

1.       Greek Yogurt What’s the Craze All About?
Helmlinger, P. (N.d). Greek yogurt. What’s the craze all about? Retrieved 22^nd of May, 2014 from  http://www.obesityaction.org/educational-resources/resource-articles-2/nutrition/greek-yogurt-whats-the-craze-all-about