This lemony garlic Easy Garlic Aioli whips up in just 5 minutes, using only 5 ingredients.  It’s the perfect creamy sauce for dipping tenders or cakes, or spread on your favorite burger, wrap or sandwich for added flavor.

❤️ Why You’ll Love This Garlic Aioli Recipe

• Creamy texture
• Garlic flavor with a kick of lemony tang
• Made in 5 minutes, using 5 ingredients
• Perfect as a dipping sauce for tenders, patties or cakes
• Spread on sandwiches, burgers or wraps

This is one of the easiest recipes that comes together in just a few minutes, using easy ingredients that you probably already have on hand. It’s the perfect last minute sauce for dipping, spreading or drizzling over just about anything that needs a little extra flavor.

It has a mayonnaise base, which uses your favorite store bought brand, just to keep things quick and easy. However, you can certainly make from scratch as I do with my Homemade Mayonnaise recipe.  

Adding a fair amount of fresh garlic and lemon, gives it a punch of flavor that takes plain mayo to the next level. Once you make it, you will likely find so many other uses for it, so you might find yourself making it often.

🛒 Ingredients for Lemon Garlic Aioli

• Mayonnaise
• Lemon
• Garlic
• Salt
• Ground black pepper

*Exact measurements are listed in the recipe card below.

🥣 Recommended Tools

• Mixing bowl
• Whisk

🔪 How to Make Keto Garlic Aioli

Add all of the ingredients to a mixing bowl.

Whisk until well combined.

Allow it to chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes, or until you’re ready to use it.

Serve as a dipping sauce or in your favorite sandwiches.

☑️ Storage Instruction

Store leftovers in an airtight jar in the fridge for 1-2 weeks.

🍴 How to Serve Garlic Aioli

• Spread it over this smash burger.
• Use it instead of plain mayonnaise in chicken salad for added flavor.
• Serve on the side of these chicken patties, chicken tenders, salmon patties, zucchini fries, eggplant fries or this popcorn chicken for the best dipping sauce ever!
• It also makes a great dipping sauce for veggies like this broccoli, asparagus, cauliflower, green beans or onion rings.

💡 Tips

• Use a good quality mayonnaise or even make your own.  It’s the star ingredients, so it’s front and center and needs to be the best.
• Be sure to grate the garlic, rather than simply mincing it.  This ensures the garlic, which is fresh and uncooked, so it’s more potent, is evenly distributed throughout the mayo.  The last thing you want is to bite into a hunk of raw garlic.
• Don’t skip the lemon zest.  It’s easy enough to add in lemon juice, which should most definitely be fresh, but the zest is equally important.
• Allow the aioli to chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.  This gives it plenty of time for the flavors to meld.

🔄 Substitutions and Additions

• Add a little chopped smoked chipotle pepper and squeeze of fresh lime juice for a Tex-Mex flavor.
• Add in some Sambal and a little Sriracha for a bang bang-like sauce.
• A pinch of red pepper flakes will kick up the heat.
• A teaspoon of smoked paprika adds a hint of deep smokiness.
• If you don’t have fresh lemons, adding fresh lime juice and zest will also work well.

How is aioli traditionally made?

In a classic aioli, you actually make the mayonnaise base from scratch, using olive oil, egg, and a few other ingredients, as I do in this recipe.

Can you turn mayonnaise into aioli?

Absolutely and that’s exactly what I did with this recipe, rather than making the mayonnaise itself from scratch.

What do people use garlic aioli for?

Aioli is most commonly used as a dipping sauce for fries or as a condiment on sandwiches. I listed some great ideas above.

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