Nut sauce for chuka. Recipe

Nut sauce is very tasty, the recipe was invented in Japan for a long time, and therefore it is a traditional Japanese dish. Japanese cuisine in general has always been positively related to all sorts of culinary experiments, and therefore it is very widely distributed a variety of gravy. This sauce perfectly complements the taste of many salads. But usually it is served to a salad under the original name of "Chuka", because it is with him that he can fully reveal all the shades of his taste. Quite often, that's why it is called - walnut sauce for Chuka.

Many Europeans perceive Japanese cuisine as strange and incomprehensible, whereas in reality everything is very simple: the secret of dishes is in the simplicity and harmony of the products from which these very dishes are prepared. Also, Japanese cuisine is very entertaining with many of its details and nuances: aesthetics of decoration, serving dishes, variety and so on.

But let's return to such a dish as a nut sauce for Chuka. The recipe for this sauce may suggest small variations of the preparation, but its basic ingredients should always remain unchanged, they are the basis of the sauce. These are nuts (not particularly important which ones), sesame, sugar and soy sauce.

To have an idea of what this "Chuka" salad consists of, its ingredients are given below. This is 450 - 500 grams of seaweed, 2 to 3 tablespoons of sesame seeds, half a glass of soy sauce, 2 tablespoons of tea starch, 2 tablespoons of sesame oil (brown, from fried seeds), 2 teaspoons of lemon juice, 2 spoons at will Tea sake and a little bit of red hot freshly cut pepper.

Well, in order to have a more complete idea of how the recipes for preparing the nut sauce may differ, several examples.

Nut sauce for Chuka. A recipe with an orange

The products needed for sauce making: 300 grams of peanuts, 200 grams of butter, 25 grams of sesame, 35 grams of onions, 3 grams of garlic (it's about one clove), 60 grams of orange, 150 grams of 3 per cent vinegar, 40 grams Sugar, 60 grams of soy sauce.

It is very tasty - walnut sauce for "Chuka", the recipe with the use of oranges makes it taste sweet and sour. So, all of the ingredients listed above need only be placed in a kitchen blender and whipped into a mass with a homogeneous consistency - and that's it! Nut sauce is ready, bon appetit!

Nut sauce for Chuka. Recipe with walnuts

Walnuts for cooking you need to choose only the lightest - it means that they are fresh. You can, of course, use the old ones (since they have already lost moisture), but they may turn out to be rancid.

Necessary products - spices: saffron, red pepper, unzo suneli (spice, it is fenugreek blue), coriander, salt; 3 spoons of hot meat broth, wine vinegar (but you can replace it with white dry wine if desired), a few drops of peanut butter, garlic (several heads).

Walnuts to sort out and pass through the finest grate meat grinder (you can generally grind on a coffee grinder). Several (pieces 2 - 3) of garlic heads are peeled off and then passed through a press, you can use a special garlic. Mix all the above spices with each other. Mix nuts and spices and pour a few spoons of hot meat broth to them, then carefully grind. Then, continuing to grind the nuts and spices, gently pour the wine vinegar or the wine itself. Wine or vinegar is needed so much that the consistency of the resulting mass was like that of a liquid pancake dough. Put on fire, bring to a boil, but do not under any circumstances boil. When serving, drop a few drops of walnut oil on the table. It turned out a very tasty walnut sauce.