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
- The bread is soaked in warm water and squeezed.
- The peeled garlic cloves are crushed with salt.
- The almonds and the expressed bread come to continue mortaring.
- 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.