Samurai sauce

{{Short description|Franco-Belgian condiment}}

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Samurai sauce ({{langx|fr|Sauce samouraï}}) is a Belgian condiment prepared from mayonnaise, ketchup, and harissa or sambal oelek[http://pratique.leparisien.fr/recettes/plats/sauces/sauce-samourai-1100001036 Recette : Sauce samourai]." Le Parisien. Retrieved on 27 August 2018. "La sauce samouraï est une sauce très répandue que l’on trouve souvent dans les restaurants servant des sandwichs kebab.[...] La harissa peut être remplacée par d’autres ingrédients comme du Sambal Oelek ou de la pâte de piment." commonly served with French fries. The sauce is also popular and widely used throughout France, and is not to be confused with the also popular Algerian sauce. There is indeed a version also called Algerian sauce which is similar to Samurai sauce, but with onions. According to Harry Pearson, author of A Tall Man In A Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians, mobile friteries in Belgium often have samurai sauce, with some making it their special item.Pearson, Harry. A Tall Man In A Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians. Hachette UK, 6 June 2013. {{ISBN|0349139725}}, 9780349139722. Google Books [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_lKCEWExNoC&pg=PT19 PT19]. "Samurai sauce was a specialty of the mobile friteries." In addition, many kebab restaurants have Samurai sauce as an available condiment.