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The famous French mayonnaise is simple yet not so easy to prepare. A home-made mayonnaise will give a great twist to your shrimps, cold meat or sandwiches.

Ingredients

• 1 egg yolk
• 1 small bowl of vegetable oil, more or less
• 1 teaspoon of mustard
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 pinch of pepper
• 1 teaspoon of ketchup, optional for the color

Preparation

Step 1. Mix the yolk of the egg with the mustard, salt and pepper.

Step 2. Add 1 table spoon of sunflower oil and start mixing with a whip.

Step 3. Whip the preparation doing '8' while adding gradually the oil, little by little.

Step 4. After some time the mayonnaise gets shape, you can then add a bit of ketchup for color.

Tips: take out the egg from the refrigerator in advance to have the egg at room temperature during the preparation. For seafood you can add a bit of cognac at the end for the flavour.