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Tartar sauce

Name: Tartar sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 6 tbsp mayonnaise; 1/4 cup whole-milk Greek yogurt; 3 tbsp reduced sodium dill pickles, chopped fine; 1 tbsp red onions, minced; 1 tbsp juice lemon; 1 tbsp fresh dill, chopped; 1 tsp Dijon mustard; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Five minutes and it beats every jar: mayo and yogurt with pickle, capers, lemon and dill. Built for fish, unexpectedly good on everything fried.

Time: 5 min (5 prep + 0 cook)
Servings: 8
Per serving: 87 kcal
Protein: 1 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

6 tbsp mayonnaise90 g
1/4 cup whole-milk Greek yogurt60 g
3 tbsp reduced sodium dill pickles, chopped fine50 g
1 tbsp red onions, minced20 g
1 tbsp juice lemon15 g
1 tbsp fresh dill, chopped4 g
1 tsp Dijon mustard5 g
1/4 tsp black pepper1 g

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Steps

Stir everything together.
Rest 15 minutes so the pickle and onion soften into the base.
Keeps five days. The yogurt half is why this tastes fresher than the jar as well as scoring better.

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

4% of kcal

60% water

3 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 695 kcal goes into the pot, 245 g of ingredients comes out as ~220 g of food → 316 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 316
Protein: (4%); 3 g
Fat: (91%); 32 g
Carbohydrates: (5%); 4 g
of which sugar: 2 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 300 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.