When it comes to fondue, the sauces are the be-all and end-all. Recently, I thought about just quickly buying a few sauces, but it's just not the same, and especially with this recipe, you're done really quickly. Here you have a basic recipe, and you just add a few ingredients to it; you have to try it, they taste really great:
Recipe: various sauces for a fondue or raclette
Basic recipe for a sauce for raclette or fondue
Ingredients:
- 125 g yogurt
- 125 g sour cream
- 2 tbsp mayonnaise
Instructions:
These ingredients are a base for the sauces, and here are the variations that you can mix into them:
Mustard-garlic sauce
Ingredients:
- 1 garlic clove, finely pressed
- approx. 2 to 3 tbsp tarragon mustard
- 1 dash of soy sauce
- Salt
- Pepper
Instructions:
Mix all ingredients into the basic recipe according to taste.
Herb sauce
Ingredients:
- 2 tbsp of various herbs (e.g., chives, parsley, dill, etc.) or use a frozen herb mixture
- 1 tbsp mustard
- 2 garlic cloves, pressed
- Salt
- Pepper
Instructions:
Mix all ingredients into the basic recipe according to taste.
Garlic sauce
Ingredients:
- 5 garlic cloves, pressed
- 1 tbsp mustard
- Salt
- Pepper
Instructions:
Mix all ingredients into the basic recipe according to taste.
American sauce
- 1 tbsp ketchup
- 1 tbsp tarragon mustard
- 1 garlic clove, pressed
- 1 tbsp horseradish
- 1 dash of soy sauce
- Salt
- Pepper
Instructions:
Mix all ingredients into the basic recipe according to taste.
Horseradish sauce
- 125 g crème fraîche
- 1 garlic clove, pressed
- 100 g tube of prepared horseradish
Instructions:
Mix all ingredients into the basic recipe according to taste.
Gorgonzola sauce
Ingredients:
- 100 g Gorgonzola
- Pepper
- Salt
Instructions:
Mash the Gorgonzola with a fork and mix it with all the ingredients and the basic recipe according to taste.
Egg sauce
Ingredients:
- 4 hard-boiled eggs
- 1 pinch of curry powder
- 4 gherkins, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp tarragon mustard
- 1 tbsp chives
Instructions:
Mash the eggs with a fork or chop them finely with a knife and mix with the remaining ingredients as well as the basic recipe according to taste.
Onion mustard sauce
Ingredients:
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 4 to 5 tbsp tarragon mustard
- 1 dash of soy sauce
- Salt
- Pepper
Instructions:
Chop the onion finely and mix with the remaining ingredients as well as the basic recipe.
Tzatziki sauce
Ingredients:
- 1 half cucumber
- 4 garlic cloves, pressed
- Salt
- Pepper
- Oregano
Instructions:
Cut the cucumber into julienne (i.e., into very fine pieces), press the garlic cloves with a garlic press, and mix well with all the remaining ingredients as well as the basic recipe.
Extra tip: if you want to do it the authentic way, use only 250 g of Greek yogurt instead of yogurt & sour cream.
Cranberry sauce
Only for this sauce do you not need a basic recipe with sour cream and yogurt; it is without, and you absolutely have to try it, it tastes really very good.
Ingredients:
- 125 g heavy cream, whipped until stiff
- 100 g cranberries, fresh in a jar or frozen
- 1 tbsp horseradish (e.g., prepared horseradish for cream)
- 1 tbsp sweet mustard
Instructions:
Whip the heavy cream until stiff, mix the cranberries (I used a jar) with the horseradish (I used the prepared horseradish for cream) and the sweet mustard according to taste. It tastes really good. The mixture of sweet and spicy works very well.
Photos by Sabine, meinhaushalt.at
Read also: Recipe for a Simple Chive Sauce
