Walnut Sauce

My favorite sauce for noodles - recipe by my husband.

My husband Daniel is a very talented cook. He is one of those people who does not like following a recipe. He likes to get the general idea of how something works and then runs with it to make it his own. This walnut sauce (a pesto) is his that I forced him to use my measuring scale so I could document how much of what goes in. That’s why instead of cups I’m using grams. If you don’t own a food scale, buy one!

This walnut sauce pairs nicely with spaghetti or linguine noodles. We add rotisserie chicken.

Walnut sauce ingredients:

• 128 grams walnuts

• 108 grams parmesan cheese

• dried oregano 1/2 tsp

• ground pepper 1/4 tsp

• 1.5 - 2 cloves of garlic

• salt 1 tsp

• 1 tbs olive oil

• 1 cup whole milk

• Large slice of bread (sour dough works great)

• 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream or just additional milk

Steps

1. Measure out your ingredients.

2. In a blender or food processor combine the garlic, parmesan cheese, walnuts, and seasoning in blender.

   

3. Take the slice of bread, chop it up into squares and place in a bowl. Pour 1 cup of whole milk onto the bread, allow the bread to soak it up a bit then add the bread and excess milk into the blender.

   

4. Blend until smoother.

   

5. Drizzle 1 tbs of olive oil into the blender and blend.

6. If it’s not creamy enough add more milk or heavy whipping cream. We did 1/4 cup of heavy whipping cream.

   

   Daniel transferred to pot then added the extra heavy whipping cream. But that can be done in blender.

7. When the pesto is fully blended you will transfer it to a medium sized pot and cook on medium low until it is hot and the texture resembles a sauce.

   

   Enjoy with meat of your choice and noodles!

If you try this recipe out let me know what you think!

-Nikki Lumpkin