Algérienne sauce is a sweet and spicy sauce with a yellowish-orange color. It is often available at fast-food businesses serving French tacos or kebabs, as well as friteries and other similar fast-food businesses, in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Belgium, France, and Switzerland.

History

A "sauce algérienne" was cited as early as 1876 in a book entitled The Book of Menus.[1]

Description

Algérienne sauce has traditionally been prepared with mayonnaise ingredients (oil, egg yolk), to which are added mustard, shallot, black pepper, vinegar, and chili pepper or harissa, and sometimes also tomato or tomato sauce, anchovies, capers, etc.[2] Algérienne sauce is associated with French tacos.[3]

Sauce algérienne is a French Spotify podcast hosted by Paul-Max Morin about the legacies of French colonialism in Algeria and the Algerian War as understood through family histories.[4]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Jerrold, Blanchard; Jerrold.]), Fin-Bec (pseud [i e William Blanchard (1876). The Book of Menus. 1876 (in French). Grant.
  2. ↑ Leon Isnard, L´Afrique gourmande, Oran, L.Fouque, , 213 p.
  3. ↑ Collins, Lauren (2021-04-10). "The Unlikely Rise of the French Tacos". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-12-17.
  4. ↑ Connaître, Petit Bulletin Grenoble. "12 podcasts à écouter cet été". www.petit-bulletin.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-04-11.
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