Tartar Sauce

Name: Tartar Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: about ½ cup (90 ml)
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ¼ cup mayonnaise (60 ml) Mayo; 1 Tbsp dill pickle relish, drained (15 ml) Sweet Pickle R; 1 Tbsp chopped capers (15 ml) Capers; Zest of 1 lemon (2 g) Lemon Zest; 2 tsp fresh lemon juice (from 1 lemon) (10 ml) Lemon Juice

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Jeremy Ford recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Jeremy Ford.

SPREAD · FRIED FISH SANDWICHES

In the published recipe, this is the spread for fried fish filet sandwich.

Ford's tartar sauce for a fried fish sandwich.

On the jar

TARTAR

Method: shake
Yield: about ½ cup
Ingredients: 5
Jar batch: 2.7× recipe

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Ratio

MAYO 60 mlLEMON JUICE 10 ml

Ingredients

Mayo¼ cup mayonnaise (60 ml)
Sweet Pickle R1 Tbsp dill pickle relish, drained (15 ml)
Capers1 Tbsp chopped capers (15 ml)
Lemon ZestZest of 1 lemon (2 g)
Lemon Juice2 tsp fresh lemon juice (from 1 lemon) (10 ml)

Method

Pour to the lines in order (bottom → top): MAYO, LEMON JUICE.
Shake-to-line (dashed marks): add SWEET PICKLE R, then CAPERS. Spoon in, shake, and top up until the settled level reaches each dashed line.
Season to finish: LEMON ZEST (about 2½ tsp).
Cap the jar and shake until emulsified.

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Provenance

Jeremy Ford. American / Miami contemporary. Cited awards include: Top Chef winner S13 (2015–16).

Adapted from a Jeremy Ford recipe (Jeremy Ford / Drew Barrymore Show (fried fish sandwich; re-eligible under §1 v2 2026-07-18)).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

Yes. Its liquids pour to printed fill-lines, so it can be one of the sauces on a PantryFlex jar.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). A PantryFlex jar makes a 2.7× batch of it. The jar's printed lines, counts, and QR guide are already scaled to match, so follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Jeremy Ford / Drew Barrymore Show (fried fish sandwich; re-eligible under §1 v2 2026-07-18) (published as “Tartar Sauce”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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