If you can think of it, you can add Spanish Romesco sauce to it and make it even better. On grilled meats and fish, on grilled vegetables, on cold vegetables, with pasta!
Gather together these ordinary ingredients and follow along to make this extraordinary sauce:
½ cup Spanish extra virgin olive oil
1 red bell pepper
1 onion
1 whole head garlic
6 plum tomatoes
3 ñora chile peppers (or similar smoky, sweet dried peppers)
¼ cup blanched almonds
1 ounce bread, crusts removed
1 tablespoon sherry vinegar
1 teaspoon sweet paprika
1 tablespoon salt (or to taste)
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By the age of 6, there was early evidence that food would play an important role in my life. Practicing penmanship and kitchen creativity, I co-authored my first recipe, “Ham Slam”, with one of my older siblings. It had all the makings of a classic 1960’s American kitchen treasure, featuring gourmet ingredients like Campbell’s cream of celery soup and Durkee’s canned French Fried onion rings. It’s no wonder my culinary career promptly took a diversion until around the age of 40.
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8 Comments
That is delicious. Beautiful video.
Congratulations for this recipe. It's the only one video about romesco sauce I've seen being correct. 99% of videos use a red pepper base which is incorrect. Sometimes cooks use red pepper or onion. But the traditional base uses only tomato and garlic as a greens base to this sauce. Don't know where this mistake comes from, but as catalan as cook I cannot figure out how this recipe it's been so mistaken. Thanks for being correct.
Well here’s another one to add to my list of “must try.” What is the name of those peppers? I couldn’t quite pick it up; my old ears don’t always catch everything. Since my palate is very wimpy I’ll probably reduce the amount of them. I love well seasoned but not real spicy. Thanks much.
Thank you I cant wait to make this
Lovely video, I’ll have to try this.
Hola everybody. There are just some things about Spain I’ll always love and this incredibly deep flavor sauce is one of them. If there are other sauces you want to see me make, just jot them down in the comments and let me know! XO C
It realy help when you write the Ingredients down another tasy dish x
Thanks! This was the most authentic romesco sauce recipe that I've found so far on YouTube. (One entry claimed it was Italian! ) I was able to buy ñoras at the market in Sitges (south of Barcelona) as well as marcona almonds a week ago to be able to make romesco sauce when I got back home. I also was able to find ñora paste at the market there. I've tried making it a couple times (a lot simpler version than the one you showed here!)