Skordalia

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 thick slice day-old bread
• 1 1/2 cups stock or 1 1/2 cups milk or 1 1/2 cups water
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin oil, plus more if needed
• 1 cup walnuts or 1 cup hazelnuts or 1 cup pine nuts or 1 cup blanched almond
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled (or to taste)
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne (or too taste. chile, if using, should not be too hot) or 1 teaspoon ground dried chile (or too taste. chile, if using, should not be too hot)
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice, freshly squeezed (or to taste)
• salt & freshly ground black pepper

Recipe

• 1 put bread in a bowl and saturate it with some of the liquid.
• 2 squeeze bread to drain off excess, then put in food processor with oil, nuts, garlic and cayenne.
• 3 process mixture until nuts are ground, then, with machine running, pour in enough of remaining liquid and more olive oil to form a creamy sauce.
• 4 add lemon juice and some salt and pepper.
• 5 serve immediately or cover and refrigerate for up to 2 days.