Simple Walnut Sauce
As a now-whole-food-junkie, there came a time when I had to give up prepackaged sauces. You know, like delicious Stubb's Barbeque Sauce? Instead, I've learned to make my own — and for some reason, am always surprised at how quickly a sauce can come together.
Take this delicious walnut sauce, for example. It has that smooth, delicious nut flavor, is rich in good fats, vitamins, and minerals — and whips up in no time.
Drizzle over some grilled or shredded chicken and you're in for a treat, my friend.
Once you get over the mental block of making sauces from scratch, I think you'll learn to love the flexibility you can have with them!
This would be a great sauce to mix a large batch of and freeze — it'd be delicious over any grain and with any meat.
And speaking of meat, tonight we're having friends over for steak! And lots of heart-healthy roasted vegetables, of course.
But steak, too!
And veggies.
And steak!
I shall now go and do something more productive than blubbering on about steak. And getting it to eat it. Which I do.
The end.
Walnut Sauce
Ingredients:
2 cups walnuts
2-3 cups CHICKEN STOCK
3 tbsp rapadura or honey
½ cup pomegranate molasses (or 1/2 cup naturally-sweetened strawberry jam or 12 ounces concentrated pomegranate juice)
1 tbsp high-quality balsamic vinegar
Salt and pepper
Instructions:
In a food processor (or high-powered blender!), grind the walnuts into a paste. Gently mix in the stock and rapadura. Note: If using pomegranate molasses, use the larger amount of stock.
Transfer the sauce to a saucepan and add in the pomegranate juice, pomegranate molasses, or jam. And then the balsamic.
Bring the sauce to a simmer and allow it to gently simmer and reduce over the course of 30 minutes. This would be a great time to prepare your chicken, brown rice, or a side salad to go with it!
Season to taste with salt and pepper. And then drizzle to your heart’s content.
