Skordalia - almond bread sauce

Time

Total preparation time: 10 min.

Memory of Crete: Skordalia - almond bread sauce. For this wonderful sauce, which looks a bit like mayo, you need a mortar - made of wood or stone.

ingredients

  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 100 g of ground almonds
  • 100 g of dried white bread
  • olive oil
  • wine vinegar
  • Sea salt and pepper

preparation

  1. The bread is soaked in warm water and squeezed.
  2. The peeled garlic cloves are crushed with salt.
  3. The almonds and the expressed bread come to continue mortaring.
  4. Slowly add the olive oil, finally to taste wine vinegar.

So you get a thick, very tasty sauce.

This goes well with grilled fish and baked vegetables, such as eggplant.

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