EASY PEASY MAYONNAISE

This is so simple and easy to make and only takes a couple of minutes, no fancy equipment needed and you know what's in your mayonnaise, for me it's great organic egg yolks from my home raised chickens and virgin cold pressed olive oil from a farm in old family farm in Italy.

Equipment :  Large bowl and a whisk / Cooking Time : 2 minutes 

Ingredients

(Makes 200g)

1 egg yolk

300ml olive oil or nut oil

1/2 tsp sea salt

1 tsp mustard

1/2 tsp white wine vinegar

I used Olive oil in this recipe as its my dad's favourite, but it is a strong flavour and my mum likes a lighter nut or grape seed oil flavour.

First place the egg yolk in your bowl with the white wine vinegar add start to add the olive oil really really slowly and whisk in, if you add too much oil the yolk will go runny and you will not get mayonnaise, if this dose happen you can save the Mayo by adding one or two more yolks and then continue as before.  Once you have incorporated half the oil and the mayo is emulsifing you can then add the rest of the oil much faster, season with salt and mustard, I like Dijon mustard or whole grain sometimes.  

Think of your mayonnaise as a blank canvas that you can now flavour with anything, my favourites are lemon and fresh grated garlic, capers gherkins and dill, chipotle chilli and smoked paprika and lemon, amoung a few.  Have fun and get inventive with your favourite flavours.

This will keep for about a week in a air tight container in your fridge.