Romesco

Name: Romesco
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: about 1½ cups (350 ml)
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp Almonds (15 ml) Almonds; 1 Tbsp Pine Nuts (15 ml) Pine Nuts; 1 Tbsp Hazelnuts (15 ml) Hazelnuts; about 1 pepper (120 g) Red Pepper; about ½ onion (40 g) Onion; about 1 tomato (150 g) Tomato; about 2½ cloves (12 g) Garlic; 30 g Bread; 3 Tbsp Sherry Vin (45 ml) Sherry Vinegar; 5.5 Tbsp olive oil (82.5 ml) Olive Oil; about ¼ tsp (2 g) Salt; about ¼ tsp (0.5 g) Pepper

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Alain Ducasse recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Alain Ducasse.

GREAT ON · TOMATO SALADS; GRILLED VEGETABLES; CALÇOTS; FISH

Great on Tomato salads; grilled vegetables; calçots; fish.

Nutty sauce for vegetables and noodles.

On the jar

ROMESCO

Method: stove
Yield: about 1½ cups
Ingredients: 12

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Almonds 15 mlPine Nuts 15 mlHazelnuts 15 mlSherry Vinegar 45 mlOlive Oil 83 ml

Ingredients

Almonds1 Tbsp Almonds (15 ml)
Pine Nuts1 Tbsp Pine Nuts (15 ml)
Hazelnuts1 Tbsp Hazelnuts (15 ml)
Red Pepperabout 1 pepper (120 g)
Onionabout ½ onion (40 g)
Tomatoabout 1 tomato (150 g)
Garlicabout 2½ cloves (12 g)
Bread30 g
Sherry Vinegar3 Tbsp Sherry Vin (45 ml)
Olive Oil5.5 Tbsp olive oil (82.5 ml)
Saltabout ¼ tsp (2 g)
Pepperabout ¼ tsp (0.5 g)

Where it sits

One of 39 nut sauces in the catalog, with 12 ingredients against a median of 8.

The acid here is Sherry vinegar. In this category chefs also reach for lemon juice (13 recipes), rice vinegar (2), and lime juice (2).

The fat here is olive oil. In this category chefs also reach for sesame oil (2 recipes) and walnut oil (2).

Method

This sauce is cooked on the stove. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Cook ingredients gently according to the published technique, adapted here as pantry quantities only.
Finish off heat; adjust seasoning.

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Provenance

French chef with multiple Michelin three-star restaurants historically, including Le Louis XV in Monaco and properties under Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester / Plaza Athénée lineage.

Originally published as Sauce Romesco.

Adapted from a Alain Ducasse recipe (Nature, simple, sain et bon / Académie du Goût).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Nature, simple, sain et bon / Académie du Goût (published as “Sauce Romesco”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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