17 Condiment, Sauces and Nut Butters Recipes

Pickling liquid being poured into a full jar of pickled jalapeno peppers.

Pickled Jalapeno Peppers1/20

These Korean-style jalapenos that take a dunk in soy sauce and soda are perhaps not pickled in the traditional American sense, but pickled nonetheless. Wait'll you taste 'em.

A glass full of chimichurri--an Argentine steak sauce--made with vinegar, olive oil, parsley, oregano, garlic, red pepper flakes

Chimichurri2/20

Drizzle, douse, souse, or otherwise acquaint this emerald elixir with grilled steak, chicken, chops, seafood, or heck, anything.

Sport Pepper Sauce3/20

A staple down South, these pickled peppers and the hot, hot, hot solution that bathes them have a kick that's as fiesty as it appears.

Three bottles filled with homemade Sriracha sauce.

Homemade Sriracha Sauce4/20

This traditional and incendiary Thai condiment has incited quite the following. Here's how to save yourself a trip to your local Asian market.

A hand sprinkling homemade Old Bay Seasoning in a small glass bowl

Homemade Old Bay Seasoning5/20

An American classic, this indispensable spice blend brings a taste of the Eastern Shore to anything, anywhere, anytime.

An open Mason jar of adobo sauce with a spoon resting on the lid beside it.

Adobo Sauce6/20

Best known as the earthy sauce bathing canned chipotle peppers, this Mexican staple is ridiculously versatile. And easy to make.

Blue cheese dip, with chunks of blue cheese, spilled in a white background with a spoon

Blue Cheese Dip7/20

Tired of settling for an ordinary blue cheese dip that practically necessitates a search party to locate a stray chunk of cheese swimming in mayo? This one won't disappoint.

A glass canning jar filled with bread and butter pickles, with pickling liquid being poured over.

Bread and Butter Pickles8/20

We've no idea where the saying "in a pickle" comes from, but we'd love to find ourselves in a jar of these subtly sweet specimens.

Three glass jars partially filled with pesto Genovese.

Pesto Genovese9/20

A spoon-it-straight-from-the-jar-and-slather-it-on-everything sauce with the taste of tradition, the seduction of sophistication.

Homemade Mayonnaise10/20

Millions have become adept at slathering mayo on all manner of food stuff. Yet few have attempted to make it at home. This foolproof recipe may change that.

A jar of bacon jam with a spoon in it on a wooden board with a lid and breadsticks in the background.

Bacon Jam11/20

Maybe what the world needs is a single currency. Like jars of this sweet, rich, intense bacon jam that makes everything better.

Cheddar cheese sauce being ladled over a chili-topped burger.

Cheddar Cheese Sauce12/20

So satiatingly superlative, this cheese sauce is going to whisper seductively to you to ladle it onto everything. And we do mean everything.

Chili Honey Butter13/20

Sweet, spicy, and just a little sassy. That's what we think of this sensational synthesis of everyday ingredients. Slather it at will.

Bobby Flay's barbecue sauce being poured from a pot into a white bowl.

Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Sauce14/20

This sweet and spicy little number wooed us from our very first spoonful, banishing bottled barbecue sauce forever from our pantries.

A mortar partially filled with herb salt and a pestle and two sprigs of fresh sage leaves lying beside it.

Herb Salt15/20

Herb salt is, quite simply, herbs pummeled with salt to create a restaurant worthy condiment. Here's how to make it along with several incredible uses, whether fancy schmancy or simple.

An open jar of cranberry chutney on a cutting board next to a partially carved chicken and a sandwich being assembled.

Day After Thanksgiving Cranberry Chutney16/20

We can't help but think that all we want for Christmas is jar after jar of this sweet-tart cranberry condiment.

Pepper Sherry17/20

What could be easier than plopping some hot peppers in a bottle of booze, setting it aside for as long as you can resist, and then drizzling it over everything? Exactly.

A white bowl partially filled with arugula pesto and a spoon resting in the pesto. A few arugula leaves scattered beside the bowl.

Arugula Pesto18/20

A peppery riff on the classic Italian condiment that may even have improved upon tradition.

Silver spoon with a mound of Portuguese red pepper paste

Amped-Up Portuguese Red Pepper Paste19/20

Each Portuguese family has its own rendition of this classic, a pantry staple known as massa de pimentão. Here's how David has amped it up several notches and in the process created something new.

A person holding a spoonful of milk mayonnaise above a jar.

Milk Mayonnaise20/20

Maionese de leite in Portuguese, milk mayonnaise--you heard us--is a creamy, eggless emulsion held together by oil, milk (natch), and a lotta love.