Algérienne sauce

Algérienne sauce is a sweet and spicy sauce with a yellowish-orange color. It is often served at businesses serving French tacos or kebab, friteries, or other similar fast-food businesses in Algeria, Morocco, Belgium, France, and Switzerland.

History

A "sauce algérienne" was cited as early as 1879 in a book entitled The Book of Menus.[1]

Description

Algérienne sauce has traditionally been prepared with mayonnaise ingredients (oil, egg yolk), to which are added mustard, shallot, black pepper, vinegar, and chili pepper or harissa, and sometimes also tomato or tomato sauce, anchovies, capers, etc.[2] Algérienne sauce is associated with French tacos.[3]

See also

Notes and references
  1. Jerrold, Blanchard; Jerrold.]), Fin-Bec (pseud [i e William Blanchard (1876). The Book of Menus. 1876 (in French). Grant.
  2. Leon Isnard, L´Afrique gourmande, Oran, L.Fouque, , 213 p.
  3. Collins, Lauren (2021-04-10). "The Unlikely Rise of the French Tacos". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-12-17.
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