This Garlic Sauce is perfect to serve with plantain chips, yuca fries, patacones or on top of baked potatoes or grilled chicken. It's a versatile and flavorful sauce.
This Salsa de Ajo is a popular and simple Colombian garlic sauce made with a mixture of mayonnaise, fresh garlic, lime juice and cilantro.
This sauce is absolutely delicious, versatile and very easy to make.
Ingredients
Mayonnaise: Use good quality to make this sauce.You can also replace the mayonnaise with Greek yogurt for a lighter version if you want.
Garlic: Use fresh garlic cloves.
Cilantro: If you don't like cilantro, replace it with parsley.
Seasoning: Salt and lime juice.
How To Make the Best Garlic Sauce
- Blend all the ingredients until well mixed. Scrape down the sides if necessary.
- Taste the sauce and add more salt if necessary.
What to Serve With This Recipe
In Colombia this garlic sauce is used as a dip for patacones (fried green plantains), plantains chips, French fries and yuca fries, and as a topping for mazorca dresgranada (a corn and cheese dish), hamburgers, hot dogs and sandwiches.
This garlic sauce recipe is very easy to make and very addictive. It will take your chips to another level.
Garlic Sauce Recipe Tips
If you love garlic like me this sauce is perfect for you, but if you prefer a milder garlic flavor just roast the garlic in the oven before making the sauce.
This time I made this sauce using store bought mayonnaise, but you can use homemade mayonnaise as well.
I used a blender to mix the ingredients, but you can also use a food processor.
Storage Instructions
This garlic sauce recipe can be double to serve a crowd. Store in a jar covered in the fridge for up to 2 days.
More Sauce Recipes you May Want to Try:
Avocado Sauce (Salsa de Aguacate)
Colombian Hot Sauce (Ají Picante)
Garlic Sauce Recipe (Salsa de Ajo)
Ingredients
- 1 cup of mayonnaise
- 5 fresh garlic cloves peeled
- ¼ cup of fresh cilantro
- ¼ teaspoon of salt or to your taste
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
Instructions
- Blend all the ingredients until well mixed. Scrape down the sides if necessary.
- Taste the sauce and add more salt if necessary.
Notes
- If you prefer a milder garlic flavor, use roasted garlic.
- You can store this garlic sauce in the fridge up to 2 days in an airtight container.
- Use a good store bought mayonnaise for this recipe. If you feel more adventure make homemade mayo.
- This sauce can be use as a dip for yuca and potato fries, plantain chips and to drizzle over grilled chicken or add it to a burgers, wraps and sandwiches.
Belinda @zomppa
Fantastic! So many things this can go with...
Angie@Angie's Recipes
We love garlic sauce too!
rebecca
oh i love the sound of this esp with all the garlic
ela@GrayApron
Oh mine! This one looks delicious! Garlic and cilantro...loooove it! 🙂 ela
Dedy@Dentist Chef
wow, what a tasty dip!!!
btw, my oven baked panko crushted grouper fillet would be perfect with your salsa de ajo, i just hope that i lives next to your home......
Von
Hi Erica, thanks for visiting my blog too!! I don't make dips often enough.....need to try this some time 🙂
MYT CR8TiV
Interesting ! I <3 Garlic so I'll have to try this sometime. It's similar to my Onion dip recipe where you just grate an onion into mayo, add salt, pepper, a dash of Tapatio, Lime juice, and a dash of soy sauce. The more onion you add the more onion flavor. I love it just dipping crackers, plain potato chips, etc. So I'm gonna try this one too.
Norma-Platanos, Mangoes & Me!
It's addictive!!!!
Alejandra
Erica, do you think (or do you know), is this sauce similar to the one they use at "El Sandwich Cubano" restaurants in Colombia?
Erica Dinho
Hi Alejandra,
It is VERY similar..but,theirs has more garlic flavor!
Mayito Castillo
Me enanta sta salsa, teniendo la receta la hare muy seguido. Gracias por compartirla!
Kevin
Wow awesome recipe, in colombia there was a sandwich spot that had a delicious Ajo sauce, Im def going to try this out can't wait, Thanks For Sharing !!!
MERCY
GRACIAS QUERIDA PAISANA.TE DESEO MUCHOS EXITOS, MUY LINDO TU BLOG.VOY HACER LA SALSA DE AJO Y ME DEBE QUEDAR MUY RICA,TE AVISARE COMO ME FUE.CON UN ABRAZO MUY FRATERNAL
Captain Dave
Something I learned in Venezuela cream cheese or feta cheese garlic in the blender cilantro
B.T.
This sauce is AWESOME!
I j
Its runny is it supposed to be like that or thick? What can I do to get the thickness iof foljlowed the recipe to the T
Erica Dinho
This is not a thick sauce.
Albert Riley
This sauce was the best combination with french fries. I really loved it. Thanks.