Recipe: Make Homemade and Organic Mustard!

Notice to lovers of stew, meat lovers, aficionados of barbecues, who like the salad dressing, all those who prepare their own mayonnaise, fetish pies ... Today, we learn to make his homemade and organic mustard. High condiment in flavor, the mustard recipe is rather simple. Ready to have a stinging nose?

Mustard recipe: the ingredients

To make a pot of mustard 150g, you will need above all, a pot. Several options are available to you: keep an old pot of mustard (the simplest a priori!), Keep a pot of pate that can close (closing clip or screw) or some pots of old-fashioned cream. Wash it and boil it in water.

If you have a mortar, a scale, and a mixer, it will make it easier. Otherwise, a little elbow grease will suffice, the recipe we offer does not require all these utensils. Once this first step is completed, you will need the following ingredients:

30g of organic mustard seeds (4 tablespoons)

3g of turmeric (1 teaspoon)

30g cider vinegar (4 tablespoons)

30g cold water (4 tablespoons)

20g of flour (2 tablespoons)

20g of organic sunflower oil (3 tablespoons)

10g of honey (1 teaspoon)

3g of salt (1 teaspoon)

2g of pepper (3 rounds of a mill)

How to make homemade mustard?

Crush your mustard seeds with a weed grinder pen. In your mortar, your blender or in a bowl with the back of a large iron spoon (salad-covered type) crush your mustard seeds. Otherwise, you can also put your seeds in a plastic bag and crush them with a heavy object type big book, shoe heel, ... If you use a mixer, remember not to crush the seeds too much if you want to make mustard to old.

Add water and apple cider vinegar. If you have verjuice (grape juice), you can use it.

Let the mixture soak for a good night or a few hours.

Add all the other ingredients. If you want to flavor your mustard, it's time to add the other ingredients.

Mix everything or mix it. Here too, if you want to make an old-fashioned mustard, adapt the mixer. If instead, you want a very smooth mustard, pass the mixture to the sieve after mixing.

Leave to rest in the fridge while closing the jar.

You can keep your mustard for several weeks.

Dare flavored mustards!

If not happy to have made a homemade mustard with your own hands, you want to flavor your mustard ... You can add to the basic preparation you just read other ingredients as you wish:

• Garlic
• Tarragon
• Ginger
• Herbs of Provence
• Sage
• Rosemary
• Pastis or more sadly anise

You can also play on the different types of vinegar provided it is acidic (not balsamic) and on different types of honey.

Why make your mustard yourself?

The first answer that comes is sure: and why not? More seriously, make your own mustard:

It is to avoid consuming unselected products that are added preservatives and other dyes.

It is cocorico: if there is a condiment that finds its place in our culinary heritage, it is mustard: Dijon, Meaux, Burgundy, Braves. The mustard - which for the little history dates from the Romans - accompanies our emblematic dishes and our tables since our childhood.

It's diet: who wins between ketchup, mustard or mayonnaise? The Mustard, which for example is 5 times less sweet than ketchup.

It's much better. What a pleasure to eat a mustard whose taste is purely ... original.

To your mortars, ready, mustard!