Salsa di Noci (Walnut Sauce) - Italian Recipe

Salsa di Noci (Walnut Sauce)

🌍 Italian, Liguria Difficulty: ●●●○○

A Ligurian sauce predating pesto, meant for pansoti or trofie. The walnuts must be blanched and peeled — the skins carry a bitterness that ruins the sauce. Soak the bread in milk until swollen, then pound everything to a thick cream.

Ingredients

• 200g walnuts, shelled
• 1 clove garlic
• 50g ricotta
• 4 tbsp olive oil
• 50g Parmesan
• Marjoram, pinch nutmeg

Method

1. Soaking — Soak walnuts in hot water 5 min; peel.
2. Blending — Blend walnuts, garlic, ricotta, Parmesan to paste.
3. Step 3 — Thin with oil and pasta water to sauce consistency.
4. Tossing — Toss with pansotti or pasta.

Tags: walnuts, garlic, ricotta, olive oil, parmesan · Source: Brittani's Almanac