Mayonnaise Substitutes

MiracleWhip, of course...

If it's just the taste of the oil that bothers you, you can easily make your own mayo using whatever oil you wish. A cheap extra-virgin olive oil makes a delicious mayonnaise, IMHO.

Otherwise, use vinegar. It's a great general-purpose condiment, can be flavored easily, and there are plenty of varieties to choose from. Naturally, this won't work well if you need the body of mayo, so go with some form of prepared mustard in those cases - it's like emulsified vinegar (in that it's emulsified vinegar).

I personally like Greek-style yogurt as a salad dressing. YMMV.

For salads I always use an olive oil based dressing. This will consist of ingredients such as lemon juice, garlic, Dijon mustard, balsamic vinegar, red or white wine vinegar, etc. depending upon the ingredients in the salad.

Sandwich fillings are a little more tricky. If it's the texture of the mayo you don't like, then adding to it to make an Aioli won't help much.

Once again, it does depend upon the ingredients used but even here it's possible to use a vinaigrette based on ingredients above. With this you can make a Muffuletto style sandwich.

Another possible option would be a Tapenade these can be made from a variety of ingredients to form a smooth paste, which can then be spread on a sandwich.

You could try a mayo-substitute, like this one (vegan). Since you're making it yourself, you can change the proportion of the ingredients if you don't like it.

Cook an egg, put it in the blender with some oil, lemon juice, mustard and salt. This allows you to create a mayonaise-like substance, but with less fat content so you'll have much less of a greasy texture.

For something like a potato salad I'd add some heavy yogurt to this.

A perfectly good substitute for mayonnaise in any type of dressing is to blitz up a soft tofu.

Tofu works great as it pretty much absorbs the flavor of whatever else is in the dressing. Plus its healthy!

It's not suitable in all circumstances, but I like yoghurt mixed with tahini (2:1 or so) as an alternative for mayo in salad dressings. It has a good flavour on its own, but can also be spiced up with lemon and garlic. It's thicker than yoghurt on its own so can be spread on a sandwich.

Although not really a mayo substitute, I quite like Heinz Salad Cream with a salad.

I like a tuna pita every so often, but only made at home. I keep a jar of Nayonnaise on hand just for this. Can't say what it tastes like in anything else, but I can't tell the difference with tuna, garlic, celery, and pickles mixed in.

Only regarding the sandwiches since salats are already discussed in the previous posts: Queso blanco¹ with herbs, spices or whatever you want can suit sandwiches well. You could use cream cheese, Quark, ricotta, pot cheese or Bryndza etc.

¹_{I'm not very satisfied with this translation because I meant Frischkäse which is not only commonly used in Latin American countries like the Wikipedia acrticle says and is not necessarily white. Cream cheese is only a kind of Frischkäse. Frischkäse is mild unaged cheese. According to the German cheese law the water content of the chesse's fat-free fraction has to be higher than 73%.}