Romesco sauce

 

Peanut sauce
  • 100 GRAM ALMONDS, peeled
  • 3 SLICES BREAD, without crust in cubes
  • 2 RED SWEET PEPPERS
  • 2 TBSP TOMATO PASTE
  • 2 TBSP LEMON JUICE
  • 2 TBSP VINEGAR
  • 2 TSP PAPRIKA POWDER
  • 1 CLOVE GARLIC, minced
  • 1/2 CUP OLIVE OIL
  • 1 TBSP PESTO
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  • 1 SMALL ONION, chopped
  • 4 TBSP SOY SAUCE
  • 1 TBSP BROWN SUGAR
  • 2 CLOVES GARLIC
  • 1 TBSP GINGERROOT, grated
  • 2 TBSP COCONUT, grated
  • 1 TSP SAMBAL OELEK
  • 150 GRAM PEANUT BUTTER
  • 1/2 TSP CORIANDER POWDER
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Roast the paprika's in a very hot oven until the skin begins to turn black; tear off the peel and cut in pieces. Grind the almonds in a food processor; add all other ingredients except olive oil, grind. Then add olive oil. If the sauce is too thick, add some more lemon juice or water.

Salsa Romesco is a Spanish sauce, that was used by fishermen to cook the fish in if its quality was not so good.
It is delicious in combination with many dishes, for instance on fish like red snapper, grilled prawns, grilled zucchini, Spanish tortilla, pork and chicken wings.

On the 3rd of May 1808, the Spanish struggled together with Portugal and the UK to resist Napoleon's French army. The event was captured in Francisco Goya's painting "Los fusilamientos del tres de mayo". Click on culinary calendar for more links between cooking and historical events.

Fry the onion for 5 minutes, add the garlic and fry 2 minutes more. Add soy sauce, sugar, sambal, ginger, coriander and 100 gram water and simmer for 5 minutes. Then add peanut butter and coconut and let it simmer half a minute more. Add as much water as needed to get a thick sauce. If you want to reheat the sauce, put a little extra water as it will thicken at reheating.

Peanut sauce is delicious with grilled chicken on skewers or marinated pork, served with French fries or French bread. Also good with nasi goreng and indispensable to gado-gado.

For delicious satays, see satay lilit and Lombok style satay from Bali, Indonesia, satay daging lembu from Malaysia, chicken cashew satay from Namibia, and for another sauce the real satay sauce.

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