Red Lobster Tartar Sauce Recipe

I have a fun and super easy copycat recipe for you today – copycat Red Lobster tartar sauce. This recipe only takes 5 ingredients and it tastes just like the real deal that you would get at Red Lobster.

If your family loves dips as much as ours, check out these other simple dip recipes. This copycat Red Lobster tartar sauce is a good way to get kids to eat things they normally wouldn’t. They just might find out that they love fish once they try it with this flavorful tartar sauce.

I’m always on the lookout for kid-friendly recipes and this one definitely fits the bill.

Why We Love This Recipe

Eating out can get super expensive when you’re feeding a family. Because of this, we rely heavily on copycat recipes so that we can enjoy the things we love without breaking the bank.

Tarter sauce was always one of those condiments that I thought you could only buy from the store. Even then you were limited. It seemed like the restaurants always had the good stuff.

The flavor that homemade tartar sauce has is unmatched to store-bought. Once you see that all you have to do is measure ingredients and mix them together, you’ll be hooked.

Give this copycat Red Lobster Tartar Sauce recipe a try. I can’t wait to hear what you think about it. The next time I make this copycat recipe I’m going to use it on fish tacos.

Ingredients

• Mayonnaise – We recommend using a heavy mayonnaise such has Hellman’s.
• Fresh Dill – See The Best Fresh Dill Substitutes if you are out.
• Lemon Juice – Check out Best Substitute for Lemon Juice

You only need 5 ingredients to make this easy sauce recipe. Scroll to the bottom for the recipe card.

Variations Ideas

• Greek Yogurt – You can easily substitute the mayo for Greek Yogurt.
• Sweet Pickle Relish – Substitute the Dill Pickles for Sweet Pickle Relish.
• Sweet White Onion – Chop up diced white onion for a delicious variation.

How to Make Tartar Sauce

Making tartar sauce is so easy!! Get ready!

• Step 1 – Measure out all of your ingredients. Add all of the ingredients into a small bowl to medium sized bowl. Any bowl will do!

• Step 2 – Second mix all of the ingredients together with a spoon until they’re completely combined.

• Step 3 – Lastly, refrigerate your tartar sauce for at least 2 hours or overnight if you don’t need it right away.

Then you can use the sauce immediately if needed, but it won’t be near as flavorful as if you took the time to let it refrigerate. Trust me, it’s worth waiting 2 hours to enjoy this homemade tartar sauce.

Recipe Tips

• Make Ahead – We like to make this good tartar sauce ahead of time so that it has time to be refrigerator. Refrigerating the tartar sauce will give all of the ingredients time to meld together and become more flavorful.
• Serving – When you are planning on serving the red lobster tartar sauce copycat recipe, set it out about 10 minutes before serving.

Serving Suggestions

Copycat Red Lobster Tarter Sauce Recipe is delicious served with your seafood dish. Make this sauce to serve with Air Fryer Fried Shrimp or Easy Fish Tacos Recipe.

My kids also love to dip their Easy Homemade French Fries, Air Fryer Tater Tots Recipe and potato chips.