Walnut Sauce

This Walnut Sauce is a simple Italian recipe combining clean ingredients to create the perfect sauce. The blended combination of the ricotta with the garlic, parmesan cheese and parsley makes a sublime creamy textured sauce. This sauce is ideal for covering piping hot pasta for a superb main dish suitable for any table. However, this recipe is very tasty so it will become more and more requested.  I have used walnuts in this recipe but if you prefer, pine nuts create the same texture. This sauce also works well Gnocchi and admittedly I think with pan fried pork chops and rice!!!!

Walnut Sauce

This Walnut Sauce is a simple recipe that is welcoming during spring, summer, autumn and winter. l

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Course: Main Dish

Cuisine: Italian

Keyword: Nuts, Sauce

Prep Time: 1 minute minute

Cook Time: 5 minutes minutes

Total Time: 6 minutes minutes

Servings: 4 people

Calories: 559kcal

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Ingredients

 

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• 1 cup ricotta cheese 250 ml
• 1 cup walnuts 250 ml, chopped
• 1/2 cup Parmesan 125 ml, grated
• 1/2 cup parsley 125 ml, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic chopped
• Salt to taste
• ground pepper to taste

Instructions

• Combine all the ingredients in an electric blender/processor.
• Blend until fairly smooth - small pieces of nuts add a nice texture.
• Toss with the cooked pasta or gnocchi, adding a little bit of the cooking water to thin the sauce if necessary.
• Serve immediately.

Nutrition

Calories: 559kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 20g | Fat: 51g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 28g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 49mg | Sodium: 282mg | Potassium: 448mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 3g