This creamy Horseradish Sauce rivals the best Steakhouse horseradish I’ve tried in both Ruth’s Chris and the Cottonwood Grill. It is excellent paired with prime rib, steak or beef tenderloin.
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Horseradish Sauce Recipe:
This horseradish cream sauce is so easy and will impress your dinner guests! It keeps well in the refrigerator for at least 2 weeks and only gets better as the flavors meld.
This sauce is creamy and balanced by the cider vinegar. It isn’t overly pungent and won’t mask the flavors of the excellent prime rib you’ve prepared. If you like your horseradish sauce a little more potent, add horseradish to taste.
What is Prepared Horseradish?
You can purchase jars labeled “prepared horseradish” in the refrigerated section of your grocery store.
If you have a fresh horseradish root growing in your yard, you can make homemade prepared horseradish in a food processor with some water, vinegar and salt but keep in mind homemade is twice as strong as store-bought so add it to taste.
Prepared horseradish is so versatile. We love it in crab salad, coleslaw and “Hron” (a Russian sauce with grated beets).
How to Make Horseradish Sauce:
It really doesn’t get any easier than this: combine all of the ingredients and stir!
What Can I Serve Horseradish Sauce With?
Horseradish sauce for prime rib is obvious but some of these ideas may surprise you! It adds memorable flavor to:
- Prime Rib
- Steak Sandwiches
- Beef Tenderloin
- Pork Tenderloin
- Sushi (instead of wasabi)
- Deviled Eggs
Horseradish Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 2 Tbsp prepared horseradish, drained
- 2 Tbsp mayonnaise
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp black pepper
- 1 Tbsp chives, finely chopped
Instructions
- In a small mixing bowl, stir all of the ingredients together. Serve right away or cover and refrigerate for about 2 weeks.
Notes
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Stay tuned, we’re sharing a video recipe of our all-time favorite beef tenderloin tomorrow which we served with this sauce. It is the perfect main course for Valentines Day!
Q: What is YOUR favorite way to enjoy Creamy Horseradish Sauce? I would love to hear from you in a comment below!
Salmon!! Without fail, try it with salmon… and on top of a baked potato….
This is the best horseradish sauce ever! We love it!
That’s just awesome! Thank you for sharing your wonderful review, NJ!
This recipe is delicious. I added more horseradish to it. This exceded my expections. Please submit more recipes.
I like to use this sauce on roast beef sandwiches, instead of mayo. Load it up with roast beef, Swiss cheese and lots of crunchy greens…delicious!
Thank you so much for sharing that with me.
you are the best fun watching you I have a recipe for a cheese pie it takes only four ingredients two packages of cream cheese, half cup of sugar, half teaspoon of vanilla and two eggs, a cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla and a bowl mix well add eggs, one at a time mix well pour into a Keeler graham cracker crust bake 25 minutes cool and refrigerate I add Comstock strawberry blueberry cherry topping. I make this people love it.
Fabulous!!!! Making it for our family dinner tonight…boys home from college…with beef tenderloin. They eat it out of the bowl!!!! Natasha’s recipes are all wonderful!
You’re so very welcome! I’m glad you’re loving the recipes!
Question: I only have cream horseradish in the fridge and we live in the boonies, so there’s no running out for an ingredient. Is there any rule of thumb for substituting one (cream) for the other (prepared)? The brand I have is Beaver Brand. Has vinegar, and eggs, so I would hazard a guess that the other closest ingredient would be mayo, maybe. Any hope? I have some lovely roast beef that I am dying to try your sauce with!
Hi there! I’m not sure how those modifications would work in this recipe. I hope you get to try the original when you have all of the ingredients available, it really is delicious.
I hear you regarding commute… but the difference in taste in a jar version & this is night & day
So when you go out and shop for your protein & sides, get the jar grated horseradish (last a while, and regular sour cream. (Will guess you have the other ingredients (do not sub the apple cider vinegar if you don’t have)
Chives optional too…
Thank you, Natasha.
It is great. I am using some of Mike’s comments and put no salt in. Sour cream already has some and maybe mayo too.
My husband is particular when it comes to salt.
So here I am after making this and reviewing before I made it. I used Crema – Mexican sour cream, no salt, little less vinegar, and freshly ground pepper. Also, since I used dried herbs I put in a little parsley for freshness. It is in the fridge now, chilling, but I love it already. Thank you, Mike, for your mention of fish. I love horseradish and now I have a new way to enjoy it.
I think this is a delicious creamy horseradish sauce to put on any kind of beef!! Or just about anything lol it’s very good! I did not have chives but it’s still delicious without it. I will definitely be making this again.
I’m so happy you enjoyed that. Thank you for sharing that with us, Colleen!
Amazing sauce – I used Dill instead of Chives as I was intending on using this with smoked trout – it was fantastic
That sounds wonderful, Mike!
Mike,
You gave me a great idea with the Dill. I currently only have dried, but I am going to try it with my fish this evening. Printing out with your review mention added.
This Horseradish sauce is excellent. I doubled the recipe. This is the only one I will use from now on. I make it a day or two before I need it and put in Fridge! It just gets better and better. You will love it!
Hi Magnolia! I’m so glad you found a new favorite. Thank you for the feedback.
I agree. I keep this recipe close at hand, and have shared it with many!