Walnut sauce: delicious and delicious recipe
Is walnut sauce It is very easy to elaborate and it supposes one more resource at the time of varying our recipes of sauces. The walnut sauce is ideal to accompany all kinds of pasta, fish, meat, salads, to spread on biscuit or tender bread, even to fill peppers, potatoes, tomatoes, zucchini.
It is the fruit from the tree called walnut and there are different varieties of nuts like Common, Parisenne, Payne, Partridge Peak, Eureka, Hartley. The nut is a dry fruit full of benefits and nutritional properties among which we highlight its benefits when it comes to protecting our cardiovascular health and it is also an antioxidant fruit.
The studies made about this wonderful dry fruit come to consider it good for prevent the death of brain cells since its consumption it protects us against cognitive decline that usually occurs over the years.
The best season for walnuts is autumn, although we can see walnuts throughout the year in the market. In the market we can get them both with peels and already peeled and packaged.
It is a dry fruit that we could consider versatile since with it we can elaborate many recipes both salty and sweet, in bakery, pastry. When making ice cream it is very common to see caramelized walnuts accompanying cream ice cream and walnut.
It is advisable and healthy to eat a few walnuts daily, three or four walnuts since it is a nut with many calories.
The best way to preserve the shelled nuts is to store them in sealed glass jars to make sure they are properly closed and retain all their properties.
How to make walnut sauce
As we have said before, it is a very simple recipe to make, and in a few minutes we can have this wonderful nut sauce ready to taste as we want.
Ingredients:
- 200 grams of nuts.
- One garlic clove.
- 100 grams of Grana Padano grated cheese.
- 200 grams of liquid cream.
- 4 tablespoons of olive oil.
- A few leaves of basil.
- A pinch of black pepper.
- A little bit of salt.
Elaboration:
The ideal would be to have ready the nuts already free of shell.
If that were not the case, we would begin by cascading the peels and extracting the nuts.
We crush the nuts, finely chop the clove of garlic and basil that we have previously washed.
In the blender we put all the ingredients above, and add the oil, cheese, cream, pepper and salt.
We beat well together.
We already have this exquisite walnut sauce ready with which we will accompany the dishes that we like the most.
