Ina Garten Sauce Recipes
Independent adaptations of Ina Garten's publicly published recipes. Not created by, affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Ina Garten.
Ina Garten is an American home-entertaining cook based in East Hampton, New York. She ran the Barefoot Contessa specialty food store there before it closed, and the Barefoot Contessa brand continues on Food Network. PantryFlex adapts recipes Ina Garten published and cites Ina Garten as the source for each one.
Garten holds multiple James Beard Cookbook Awards as well as a James Beard Who's Who honor. Her cookbooks and Food Network work now carry the Barefoot Contessa name forward. PantryFlex adapts recipes Ina Garten published and cites Ina Garten as the source for each one.
By the numbers
8
recipes
75%
pour-and-shake ready
2.7:1 fat to acid
field median 2.7:1
6.5
ingredients per recipe, field average 6.8
Champagne is Ina's acid of choice, showing up in 4 of 8 recipes.
Compared with the whole catalog, Ina reaches more often for pepper (88% vs 8%), Champagne (50% vs 1%), and Dijon mustard (50% vs 17%).
How Ina builds a sauce
Ina Garten's 8 sauces in the catalog lean toward 4 vinaigrettes, 3 egg emulsions, and 1 pesto. Of that total, 6 are jar-ready as a pour-and-shake or simmer sauce and 2 need a blender. Recipes cited to Ina Garten include Lemon Vinaigrette, Mustard Vinaigrette (Champagne) - full FN, and Homemade Pesto.
Recipes

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1 kitchen · 2 national awards
- Lemon VinaigretteNATIONAL AWARD WINNEROn the jar: LEMON VINAIG
- Garlic-Champagne-Dijon VinaigretteNATIONAL AWARD WINNEROn the jar: MUSTARD
- Mustard MayoNATIONAL AWARD WINNEROn the jar: MUSTARD MAYO
- Champagne Dill MayonnaiseNATIONAL AWARD WINNEROn the jar: TARTAR
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Kitchens
- Barefoot Contessa (specialty food store) · East Hampton
- Independent / cookbook & television · East Hampton
Awards
- James Beard Cookbook Award (multiple)
- James Beard Who's Who
Common questions
- Which of Ina Garten's sauces are pour-and-shake?
- 6 of the 8 sauces cited to Ina Garten in the PantryFlex catalog fit a pour-and-shake jar, including Lemon Vinaigrette, Mustard Vinaigrette (Champagne) - full FN, and Homemade Pesto.
- Where does Ina Garten cook?
- Garten no longer runs a storefront; the Barefoot Contessa specialty food store in East Hampton, New York has closed, and the Barefoot Contessa brand continues on Food Network.
- Are these Ina Garten's actual recipes?
- The sauces are adapted from recipes Ina Garten published, with Ina Garten cited as the source on every recipe page. PantryFlex is independent and not affiliated with Ina Garten.
Citations
- Lemon Vinaigrette · adapted from Barefoot Contessa / Food Network (Ina Garten)
- Garlic-Champagne-Dijon Vinaigrette · adapted from Barefoot Contessa Family Style / Food Network Mustard Vinaigrette
- Homemade Pesto · adapted from Barefoot Contessa / Food Network
- Mustard Mayo · adapted from Barefoot Contessa / Food Network
- Champagne Dill Mayonnaise · adapted from Barefoot Contessa / Food Network
- Basil Mayonnaise · adapted from Barefoot Contessa / Food Network
- Champagne-Mustard Vinaigrette · adapted from Barefoot Contessa / Food Network
- Champagne-Dijon Vinaigrette · adapted from Barefoot Contessa / Food Network
Every recipe lists its source and original title in the Provenance section of the recipe page.