Walnut sauce to season pansoti, the recipe.
Today I decided to write you the recipe for one of the most famous sauces in Liguria. Obviously the first, and most famous, is pesto alla genovese but connoisseurs know that with walnuts you can prepare a delicious sauce with which you season the classic pansoti or trofie.
Ingredients:
– Walnuts
– A slice of stale bread
– Milk
– Garlic
– Marjoram
– Salt
– Oil
First, take a slice of bread and soak it in a little milk.
Then boil the shelled walnuts for a couple of minutes.
Once the walnuts are hot (don't leave them too long, please) you need to do a very complicated and boring operation: peel the walnuts from their skin.
To tell the truth, lately we don't do it anymore at my house, so my sauce has a slightly more bitter taste than the classic one.
To finalize the preparation now there are two ways: the marble mortar (the same one used for pesto) or the blender.
The choice is yours.
Add the bread, walnuts, garlic (very little, mind you, half a clove is enough), salt, marjoram and oil to the peeled walnuts and start beating with the pestle (or blending) until you reach a creamy consistency.
Adjust by adding a little milk if the sauce is too thick.
Now the sauce is ready to be combined with the chosen pasta.
In the comments there are different positions on whether to add Parmesan or not. Add a comment and explain to us how you prepare this sauce.
In this case, some vegetable ravioli-shaped pansoti:
