Tartar sauce (sometimes spelled as “Tartare sauce”) is a popular sauce eaten as a condiment. It is named after the Tartar people, an ethnic group living in Russia, however the sauce originates from Europe, probably France. The reason it is called Tartar sauce is because when it was first devised, it was intended to be eaten with steak Tartare, which is a dish of finely ground or chopped beef or horse meat, and which does gets its name from the Tartar people – according to legend, the nomadic Tartar people did not have time to cook when travelling on the steppes of Russia and Central Asia, and instead tenderized their meat by placing it beneath their horse saddles.
Tartar Sauce
Posted by Food-and-Drink Articles from EzineArticles.com on February 19, 2009
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