tartar sauce

Mayonnaise mixed with chopped pickles and other ingredients, used as a condiment for fish and other seafood.

[Translation of French sauce tartare : sauce, sauce + tartare, Tartar.]

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tar′tar sauce`

a mayonnaise sauce containing chopped pickles, olives, capers, etc., served with fish.

[< French sauce tartare]

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Noun

tartar sauce - mayonnaise with chopped pickles and sometimes capers and shallots and parsley and hard-cooked egg; sauce for seafood especially fried fish

tartare sauce

sauce - flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food

Translations

tartar(e) sauce

n → ˜ Remouladensoße f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

tartar sauce

n → salsa tartara

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The supper consisted of a roast pheasant garnished with Corsican blackbirds; a boar's ham with jelly, a quarter of a kid with tartar sauce, a glorious turbot, and a gigantic lobster.

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The tartar sauce was a bit too tangy I think it had too much vinegar.

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Food-wise, the pub offers a wide range of specials but, after a day out walking, Pub Spy couldn't resist the delicioussounding salt and vinegar battered haddock with handmade tartar sauce and chips.

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This version featured a gigantic whale-like Conwy ale-battered cod which arrived with minted pea puree, hand-cut chips and their own homemade tartar sauce.

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