Make sure your base ingredients are all at room temperature. If your soy milk is in the fridge, take it out and let it warm up a bit. Press the juice of half a lemon.
Mix soy milk and lemon in a tall measuring cup. Slowly add the oil while continuously blending. It is important to pour slowly and steadily to make the emulsion work. If you pour the oil to fast, you end up with soup instead of a firm mayonnaise. Continue slowly adding the oil, until your mayonnaise is firm enough. You reach this point is when the ratio between oil and soy milk is about 1:3.
Time to add some basic flavour. Give a spoon of mustard, some vinegar and pressed garlic into the mayonnaise. Carefully stir in the ingredients without blending further.
I suggest storing this base mayonnaise in a jar at this point. In the fridge, you can keep it for a long time. If you want to make a dip or sauce with extra spices, take some of your mayonnaise and add what you feel like. The remaining mayonnaise stays in your fridge and is ready to be transformed into something different when needed.
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