Cold Pink Sauce (Salsa Rosa) Recipe

In Argentina, around 1920, Dr. Luís F. Leloir, as a simple way to get out of culinary monotony, devised this sauce, now widespread throughout the world. The curious thing is that, years later, this man would receive the Nobel Prize in chemistry. So we have a famous sauce for several reasons.

Among its ingredients, beyond mayonnaise and ketchup, the most common are orange juice, perrins sauce, worcestershiere sauce, mustard, tabasco, brandy or whiskey. All of them transform this sauce into a marvel. Easy to prepare and very rich.

Let's go with one of the best salad sauces you can make at home. It is very versatile and can be used in traditional salads and other types of salads such as rice or pasta. And we can give it more uses in the kitchen, as an accompaniment to dishes such as sandwiches or cocktails.

The pink sauce is an ideal sauce to use in salads, seafood cocktails or to eat with some prawns. We show you how to prepare it step by step.

Preparation of Cold Pink Sauce (Salsa Rosa):

The pink sauce is a well-known sauce that is normally used to accompany salads, sandwiches or a cocktail, such as the famous seafood cocktail. The preparation is quite simple and few ingredients are used in it, although there are variants of it that incorporate a small amount of some other additional ingredient, so you can see different recipes, but they all have the same mayonnaise and ketchup base, seasoned with some other that gives it a special touch.

Nowadays we can find the pink sauce in any supermarket, which means that we do not usually prepare it at home, but it really is so quick to prepare and its flavor is so rich, that we propose to prepare it as we indicate below, to that you share the flavor of the homemade and the industrial one, and decide for yourselves whether or not it is worth making it at home. In the preparation we will use mayonnaise, which can also be made by us or bought, depending on the time we have or depending on how we are interested in using one or the other, we recommend making it yourself, it is healthier and richer.

Once we have the mayonnaise made or bought, we are going to put the indicated amount in a large container, and on it we add the ketchup, the Dijon mustard and the freshly squeezed orange juice, and finally add a splash of brandy or cognac, (some add whiskey) and we are going to mix all the ingredients as well as possible, for which we recommend using some rods, either manual or placed in the blender. For this amount, which is not much, with a few rods at hand we can mix everything well without problems.

When we get to have the mixture well homogeneous and have a good pink tone, we are going to test the sauce in case we need to correct the flavor by adding more of one or more ingredients, to leave it to our liking. After leaving the sauce to our liking, we will put it in a closed container and keep it in the fridge until it is time to use it, so that it is always cold. If we use homemade mayonnaise, we will have to consume the pink sauce in the next 24 or 36 hours preferably, although if we use canonnaise from a pot we will be able to keep it much longer.

Servings / Units: 1
Approximate Preparation Time: 15M
Approximate Calories: 110

Light Pink Sauce Recipe

This is a light-calorie version of the pink sauce, so you can enjoy it but with much less calories than the traditional recipe. The result is very interesting, so if you want to take care of your diet a bit, you are going to love it.

Light Pink Sauce Ingredients:

- 250 grams of natural yogurt
- 50 grams of light mayonnaise
- 50 grams of fried tomato
- 25 grams of mustard

Or It will be very rich with yogurt sauce, to prepare it, mix it with lemon juice, salt, pepper and herbs.

Chicken salad with pink sauce

Ingredients

300 grams of chicken breast
1 apples
200 grams of lettuce
4 tablespoons mayonnaise sauce
2 tablespoons ketchup
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 spring onion
1 sprig of thyme
Salt
Pepper

How to make Chicken Salad with Pink Sauce:

Step 1

The day before: wash, dry and chop the thyme. Wash the chicken breast and cook it in water with a little salt for 10 minutes. Drain the chicken, let it cool and cut it into slices. Season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with thyme, brush with oil and put in the fridge.

Step 2

Prepare the pink sauce by mixing the mayonnaise with the ketchup and the ingredients that you like the most. Stir until fully incorporated, cover the container with film and also reserve it in the refrigerator.

Step 3

On the same day: clean the chives by removing the first layer, the roots and the green stem. Wash it, cut it and place it in a bowl with cold water; that way it will taste smoother. Wash, dry and chop the lettuce.

Step 4

Wash the apple, cut it in half and remove the core. Then, cut it into thin slices. Drain the chives and mix it with the lettuce and chicken. Divide them into four plates, dress them with the sauce and serve.