Name: Jalapeno Tartar Sauce Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cup
Ingredients: 1 cup mayonnaise; 1 Tablespoon fresh lime juice; 1 medium fresh jalapeno, diced (or 3 Tablespoons jarred); 2 Tablespoons red onion, diced

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Adding a dollop of sauce brings any dish up a level. Our jalapeno tartar sauce recipe has a little kick to it without overwhelming heat.

Use the tartar sauce to top Baja fish tacos, fish & chips, fish sticks or any seafood dish, fried food, especially French fries and chicken fingers. Jalapeno tartar sauce is even great on a hamburger.

How To Make Our Jalapeno Tartar Sauce Recipe

Just 4 ingredients & 5 minutes to an excellent sauce. Mix mayonnaise with fresh lime juice, diced jalapeno and red onion. That’s it!

Ingredient Substitutions For Jalapeno Tartar Sauce Recipe

The lime juice is a variation on lemon juice that is typically used in homemade tartar sauce recipes. Lemons are a good substitute for the lime.

You can use any kind of onion. I like red onion for the color and little bit of bite that red onions have.

Jalapenos can be fresh or use the jarred kind that you’ll find by the pickles at your grocery store.

How To Cut Fresh Jalapenos

how to dice a jalapeno — See the membrane that is long and thin on the top half? The line running down the middle? To reduce the heat you want to cut that out like the jalapeno on the bottom of the picture

Jarred jalapenos are a perfectly acceptable substitution for fresh in our jalapeno tartar sauce recipe. I prefer the texture of fresh jalapenos but the flavor is very similar.

Wash and dry the fresh jalapenos. Slice off the stem end and discard. Cut the jalapeno in half lengthwise. To control the heat, remove the seeds and long membrane. Or leave the membrane in if you prefer a spicier tartar sauce.

how to mince and deseed a jalapeno — slice the stem end off, cut jalapeno in half lengthwise. Remove seeds and membrane. Cut into matchsticks and then finally dice.

DO NOT TOUCH YOUR EYES until you have thoroughly washed your hands with soap. You’d be surprised how much of the chili oil remains on your hands and fingers that you don’t even realize.

What To Do If You Get Jalapeno Oil In Your Eyes

I learned the hard way by touching my eye after cutting a jalapeno. It burns like crazy and I had to just close my eyes and wait for the burn to go away.

According to the website pepperscale.com, you don’t want to go for water. Water will make things worse by spreading the burning around. Water will repel the oil because they don’t mix well.

Instead go for milk which will break down the capsaicin in the hot peppers. After washing your hands with water, put a paper towel soaked in milk on your eye. Don’t rub, just let the milk seep a little into your eyes, it should help relieve some of the burn.

Now you can make our jalapeno tartar sauce recipe without worry of chili oil burn.

Uses For Our Jalapeno Tartar Sauce Recipe

Baja Fish Tacos, or just about any taco. Try it on Beef Barbacoa Tacos, Easy Chicken Tacos, Blackened Fish Tacos,

Any fried food, especially French fries and chicken fingers

Fish sticks or fish & chips

Topping a hamburger, try our Fried Green Tomato Hamburger or General Muir Hamburger