Mayonnaise is not really a dressing. It’s much more versatile than that.

I have been wanting to try my hand at homemade mayonnaise for quite sometime now. Every-time I flipped through  Cook with Jamie, I would stop at the mayonnaise page, admire the gorgeous thick n smooth mayo. A glance at the recipe would always make me flip to the next page and this has been happening for about 4 months now.

 

Finally last night, we needed salad to go with the grilled chicken wings. Yes, it was a need. Salad and chicken wings just goes! I wanted to make the super delicious salad with lettuce, onions n oranges. We ran out of mayo, so I was telling mom that perhaps I should make some mayo. Mom agreed and encouraged me to give it an attempt although I suspect the main reason for her encouragement has to be the fact that she know she might be the 1 to go to the shop to purchase the mayo since I was waiting for a customer to collect her  orders. Smart mommie. Now you know how I turned out as such.

 

Anyways, while measuring the ingredients, the amount of oil used continued to disturb me! I have been delaying trying this recipe mainly because this recipe uses a whopping 565ml of oil! I took the bottle of mayo I have in the fridge (Err there’s about 1tsp left?) and was reading the ingredients.

The label said:

vegetable oil

eggs

sugar

salt

acid(I can’t rem what acid)

gum(I cant rem what either) 😛

another acid that I cant remember

and there was a list of other things that I’m not even sure what it was!

 

 

So I figured homemade would still be better? At least I knew what was in there! So I give it a try and I was hoping that the mayonnaise would come together without having to use that much oil.

 

Apparently although Mayonnaise is simple to make, it needs some patience else the Mayonnaise would split. So Jamie suggested that you use 3:1 amount of vegetable oil to olive oil for the 1st few attempts. This way, even if the mayonnaise doesn’t work out…you haven’t lost all the expensive olive oil! Make sense to me, so I did just that but I used Canola oil instead. And yes, I used slightly less than 350ml of oil. It was thick and smooth enough, thus I stopped at that. You can of coz go all the way till 565ml. I presume it’s gonna be thicker?

Anyways, the mayonnaise turned out really lovely! Mom even suggested that I should start selling mayonnaise! The olive oil made a whole lot of difference in the taste! This recipe gives u a jar of mayo, so I guess it’s ain’t that bad at all if you use it in proportions. It’s really delicious thus a little goes a long way!