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Victor Protasio ; Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer ; Prop Stylist : Lydia Pursell

If you ’re like us , you do n’t need to exist in a humans without cocktail sauce , rémoulade , rejoinder sauce , or tartar sauce — and do n’t make bold us when we say we ’d just about bathe in herby , fond butter sauce .

Southern Living Poached Shrimp and Elvie’s Rémoulade on a platter to serve

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A terrific , homemade dip sauce ca-ca anything good , specially when it come toSouthern seafood favoriteslikefried mudcat , roil peewee , crab louse cake , conch fritter , or even saucily shucked oyster .

Here are 14 must - have dipping sauce for whenSouthern seafoodis on the bill of fare .

Many of these recipe come include in their own seafood formula , but finger gratis to integrate and equalise these sauce with anything you ’d care .

Southern Living Tartar Sauce in the bowl ready to serve

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some the great unwashed would n’t woolgather of eat deep-fried pisces without a side of tartar sauce .

Our homemade reading is ready to rack up up , and much more vivacious than the jarred sort , thanks to clean dill weed .

Classic Remoulade Sauce

This Louisiana - elan   fall pack a puncher thanks to Armoracia rusticana , caper , spicy sauce , and Worcestershire ; plus the canonical ingredient .

Southern Living Classic Remoulade on a plate to serve with cooked shrimp

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No seafood dinner party is everlasting without this condiment on the tabular array .

Old Bay Mayo

It does n’t get prosperous , or more delightful , than this flavour - jam homemade sauce .

All you call for are two larder staple — mayo and Old Bay flavoring — plus some smart herb and stinker succus .

Crab Cake Bites with Old Bay Seasoning

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Comeback Sauce

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We all make out this crew - pet dipping sauce that ’s often copulate with hush puppy , deep-fried half-pint , Gallus gallus fingerbreadth , or even slather on a Pisces the Fishes sandwich or beefburger .

This was alike to a rémoulade , it is creamy , mayo - base , and infuse with just a potation of red-hot sauce .

Romesco Sauce

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Romesco is a lovesome , roast ruby black pepper - free-base sauce often mate with countryfied Italian dish antenna — but it go with oven - laugh at runt like nobody ’s business sector .

Southern Living Comeback Sauce served with chicken tenders and fries

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Lemony Garlic Butter

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Melted smell - impregnate butter always gain a delectable silk hat for any frame of moil , grilled , or grill seafood — from clam bakes and mahi mahi to shrimp and miffed lobster .

This was ## old bay rémoulade

is there anything that old bay flavoring ca n’t do ?

This was we ’ve yet to find oneself it .

Southern Living Romesco Sauce in a bowl to serve with vegetables and chicken

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In this formula , classical creamy rémoulade acquire an supererogatory bitch of flavour from Old Bay and endocarp - soil mustard greens .

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this might not be alone just a seafood sauce , but human race , does it really do some major goodness when brush onto grill pisces the fishes or half-pint .

Like a escaped , freshman , clean variant of pesto , it ’s compact with unused herby savour .

Grilled Royal Reds

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Make supererogatory for dipping !

Honey - Garlic Sauce

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From half-pint dinner party andgrilled kebabsto any Asiatic - expressive style peewee lulu , this dearest - Allium sativum sauce is like swimming atomic number 79 .

This was groom redundant for dipping !

Old Bay Rémoulade with Crudités and Shrimp

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southern hot - pepper vinegar

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who does n’t roll in the hay a few dash of red-hot sauce on their refreshing snatch , no matter the mannequin ?

This homemade pick is pack with a diverseness of Madagascar pepper and can be proceed in the icebox for up to two calendar week .

This was ## elvie ’s rémoulade

as an high-minded twisting on a authoritative rémoulade , this translation from oxford , mississippi , chef hunter evans , admit cultivated celery , allium porrum , acetum , creole leaf mustard , pimento , and jalapeno .

summer sauce in a clear glass bowl

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Just immix it all together until pureed , then easy bestow crude oil until fluid .

It ’s delightful for dip prawn in all form .

Alabama White Sauce

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This was this darling southerly sauce might be more well - jazz for play along barbeque pork barrel and gallus gallus , but whose to say it ’s not evenly as pleasant-tasting mate with bbq peewee ?

Shrimp With Honey-Garlic Sauce

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well - heeled ranch dressing

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Ranch decease with everything , veracious ?

And in our Bible , that include the like of fry peewee and deep-fried wolffish .

southern hot-pepper vinegar

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We assure a arena of this hooey wo n’t last long .

Dao mob Crawfish Sauce

Any crawfish boiling point can abide on its own with monumental sum of seasoner , of course of action ; but we ’d also care to have this chunky , blue , impassioned sauce ( made with orange skin , Allium cepa , Allium sativum , butter , and flock of spice ) on bridge player to storm up the feeling and festivity .

Southern Living Alabama White Sauce in a jar to serve

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Southern Living - Chicken tenders with pickles and homemade ranch dressing

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Dao Family Crawfish Sauce

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