Tikka Twist House Sauce
A cold, creamy all-purpose sauce that lives in a jar on the top shelf of your fridge. Make it Sunday and it goes on burgers, fries, chicken sandwiches, fish tacos and roasted vegetables all week.
Photography is illustrative. Every recipe is tested.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup plain whole-milk yogurt or sour cream
- 2 teaspoons Tikka Twist Signature Blend, Mild or Hot
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 1 small garlic clove, grated fine (optional)
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped cilantro (optional)
- Salt, only if it needs it at the end
Contains: Soy, Wheat.
Using the blend
2 teaspoons
Whisk the blend straight into the cold mayo and yogurt, then let the sauce rest 30 minutes before you serve it. Nothing here sees heat, which matters, because the tomato powder, amchur and crystallized lime in the blend scorch and turn bitter in a hot pan. The rest lets those dried ingredients rehydrate so the sauce tastes rounded instead of dusty.
Method
- 01
Whisk the mayonnaise and yogurt together in a small bowl until completely smooth.
- 02
Add 2 teaspoons Tikka Twist Signature Blend along with the lemon juice, honey and grated garlic. Whisk for a full 30 seconds, until you see no dry specks or streaks. Any blend that stays dry will read as grit later.
- 03
Cover and refrigerate at least 30 minutes, or up to overnight. This step is not optional. Straight from the bowl the sauce tastes sharp and powdery, and after a rest it tastes like a sauce.
- 04
Taste it now, then stir cilantro into the portion you are about to serve rather than the whole jar; chopped herbs go limp and dull in a dairy sauce within a day. The blend already carries salt, so go light: add a pinch only if the sauce falls flat, then taste again.
- 05
Scrape into an airtight jar. Keep it toward the back of the fridge where the temperature is steadiest, and use it within 5 days, never past the date on the yogurt you used. It firms up as it sits, so loosen the spoonful you are serving with a few drops of lemon juice or milk rather than watering down the jar.