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Mayonnaise from scratch

Simple immersion blender recipe
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Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 egg (pasturized if you're concerned about raw eggs)
  • 1 cup mild tasting oil (vegetable oil, avocado oil, light olive oil)
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 1/2 tsp ground mustard
  • 1/4 tsp salt (or more to taste)

Equipment

  • immersion blender
  • wide mouth mason jar

Method
 

  1. Add all the ingredients to a wide mouth mason jar
  2. Put the immersion blender all the way to the bottom of the jar and blend on high
  3. After about 20 seconds of blending when the bottom of the mixture is white, lift up on the immersion blender to incorporate the rest of the oil.
  4. You may have to go up and down a few times with the immersion blender until it is all blended
  5. The whole process will take just a minute or two.
  6. Taste and add more salt or lemon juice if desired

Notes

Store your mayonnaise in a mason jar in the fridge for up to about 2 weeks.