Homemade sauces cannot be missing on the summer table, fresh, light and fasti, excellent to accompany raw and cooked vegetables and salads, but also other typical dishes of the season, according to your tastes.
With summer ingredients from your garden and other fresh and tasty foods sauces for dressing they can be prepared in just a few minutes and are immediately ready to serve. The important thing is to always choose quality ingredients.
Here are the summer sauces that you can prepare right now with very few ingredients and saving money thanks to self-production. Choose your favorites.
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Tzatziki sauce
Tzatziki sauce is a typical condiment of Greece, made from yogurt and cucumbers, which is usually flavored with minced garlic and dill. You can prepare it at home following the original recipe or in different variations, for example without garlic or by substituting parsley with dill.
Guacamole sauce
The guacamole sauce, a very famous recipe of Mexican origin, has at its base theavocado. The simplest recipe involves blending avocado pulp, lime juice and a pinch of salt to obtain the guacamole sauce that you can still prepare in numerous variations.
Green Salsa
If you want to prepare green sauce at home, you can choose one of the variations you prefer for this tasty recipe. A very tasty green sauce is prepared by blending a boiled potato and left to cool with a nice handful of fresh parsley and desalted capers.
hummus
The fantastic hummus is a must on the summer table. The traditional preparation is thechickpea hummus but don't forget the more colorful variants of hummus with the addition, for example, of carrots, a piece of beetroot, parsley, basil or peas.
Mayonnaise
Classic mayonnaise is easily prepared at home with cold-pressed olive or sunflower oil and with fresh eggs, while for the vegan mayonnaise eggs are replaced with soy milk or almond milk (unsweetened). For both, just respect the doses of the ingredients and use
Eggplant Caviar
from full-bodied and velvety texture, eggplant caviar is one vegan dish and very easy to prepare. It can be served as appetizer inserting it between pate and various sauces, on bruschetta or croutons. Here you will find the recipe step by step.
Dressing
Vinaigrette is the simplest sauce to make. It's a mixture of salt, oil and vinegar. It is used above all to dress salads and for the pinzimonio of raw vegetables but it is also good for flavoring cooked vegetables. You can add mustard, pepper or other aromas to the base compound according to your tastes. To prepare the vinaigrette, just emulsify oil, vinegar and a pinch of salt, adding a few drops of lemon juice if desired.
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Soy sauce
Soy sauce is also very easily found in organic version, but those who want can experiment and try to prepare it at home starting from soy beans. It is perfect for seasoning vegetables and rice but also for cooking, especially if you love it oriental cuisine.
Pesto
The basic recipe for homemade pesto sees extra virgin olive oil, fresh basil and pine nuts as main ingredients but you can prepare your pesto in numerous variations, for example without garlic or with the addition of zucchini or walnuts.
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Greek yogurt sauce
With Greek yogurt you can prepare one very simple sauce to dress vegetables and salads. Blend a jar of Greek yogurt with two tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper and a handful of fresh basil leaves or parsley.
What are yours summer sauces fresh, light and quick to prepare favorite?
