Sauce & Condiment Recipes

The classic cilantro-packed steak topping adds herby complexity to any savory dish. If beef isn’t your thing, it’s just as good atop grain bowls, fish, chicken, or roasted veggies.

What would a tuna salad sandwich or potato salad be without the mayo? While it sometimes gets a bad rap because it’s calorically dense, homemade mayo uses only high-quality, real food ingredients like eggs, oil, and vinegar. If you don’t have avocado oil, feel free to use whatever oil you have on hand like canola or grapeseed. Just be sure to use pasteurized eggs in this recipe since the eggs are raw.

Filled with fresh herbs and roasted garlic, this ultra-flavorful butter transforms even the simplest piece of bread into a work of art.

Obsessed with pesto? This recipe bulks up the traditional sauce with wholesome broccoli, so you can dip, mix, and spread to your heart's content.

Sweet, spicy, and super juicy, this salsa makes a great dip for chips or a dynamic topping for grilled meat, tacos, and other savory fares.

Everything tastes better with pesto. Adventurous types, feel free to switch up your herbs, nuts, or cheeses. Keeping it low carb? This pesto only contains 2 grams per serving! Add it to grilled seafood, chicken, or even scrambled eggs for a hit of savory goodness.

Creamers add another dimension of flavor to your favorite coffee, but some are loaded with refined sugars and artificial flavoring. Skip the store-bought stuff, and give the Cashew Creamer a try! Naturally sweet and flavored with vanilla, this vegan creamer will change your coffee game.

Sure, you can buy marinara premade at the grocery store, but nothing is quite as comforting as homemade tomato sauce simmering on the stove. From a health standpoint, we also love tomato sauce because tomatoes contain the health-promoting antioxidant, lycopene, which becomes more available to your body when it's heated.

Mole is a traditional sauce used in Mexican cuisine made with roasted chilies and an assortment of spices. Once combined, you’ll taste a layered flavor of sweet, salty, spicy, and smoky. Use this mole sauce to top your protein like chicken, as an enchilada sauce, or over rice.

Skip the store-bought and pre-made salsa, and make your own homemade version. This recipe calls for canned tomatoes, which offer an added nutrition bonus! When tomatoes are heated during processing or canning, the powerful antioxidant, lycopene, becomes more bioavailable to our bodies, offering potentially more cancer protection and anti-inflammatory benefits.

This red sauce gets a sweet, peppery boost from red bell peppers, adding freshness and depth to an otherwise traditional marinara recipe.

Punch up the flavor of any savory dish with this shocking-green scallion pesto, filled with fresh, oniony, creamy goodness.