Saturday, January 23, 2010

Walnut Sauce

Ok I'll be the first!
A very simple and useful sauce that can be used with ravioli, tagliatelle and even store purchased Barilla pasta!!!! Can also be used with chicken and turkey but I also use it on some antipasti such as orange slices with artichokes (yeah more artichokes, cant get enough of them babies!)

Ok the Sauce: You need about 15-20 walnuts, about 4-6 good size garlic gloves (dont buy that crapy store mixed stuff), bread crumbs and salt and pepper and if you like fresh lemon juice (just to give it an added punch). The flavor should not cover up the flavor of your main dish and thus is ideal for bland foods and pasta.

If you have confectionary (packaged) nuts ... no jokes please then it makes the job easier. Crush the walnuts with a pestle and mortar or a food processor, add about half a cup of bread crumbs and liquidate them!!! you can add a bit of lemon juice here but you dont want to create a liquid affect. add a bit of salt and pepper (white) and you can add butter or cream when serving. An alternative is after blending (before adding lemon juice) toast the nuts in a pan with butter then add the cream when serving. Tell me how it went!

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