Recipes with walnut?

Walnuts are fabulous in salads. I like them with beet and goat cheese and pear and blue cheese. They can be put into any kind of fruit bread or cookies. Make a walnut pesto. Add them to cereal or oatmeal. Or just eat them plain. Yum!

They are also good to chop up and put into a stuffed pasta shell recipe.

Mix in small pieces with honey or sugar and regular plain or greek yogurt its more filling than just eating it by itself
Or you can add crushed walnuts to chicken stew or tuna salad for texture

RodaRose wrote: »

I used to eat Walnut Stuffed Dates with Cream cheese growing up
'Still do because hubby likes them too.
http://www.healthyfoodforliving.com/stuffed-dates-two-ways/

Yeah, one would handle one nut at a time.
An alternative is to (1) put the walnuts, cream cheese, and dates in a blender and then (2) use your hands to shape them into balls. . . . sort of like protein balls.

lporter229 wrote: »

Walnuts are fabulous in salads. I like them with beet and goat cheese and pear and blue cheese. They can be put into any kind of fruit bread or cookies. Make a walnut pesto. Add them to cereal or oatmeal. Or just eat them plain. Yum!

Yes! Oh yummy.

I'm making a warm kale salad with re-constituted cranberries, shallots and walnuts this week

1 large bunch of organic kale (Tuscan, Lacinato or Dinosaur)
1 large shallot
2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 large cloves of garlic, minced
a handful of dried cranberries (I use apple juice sweetened)
a small handful of chopped walnuts
1 tablespoon Balsamic vinegar (I use fruit flavored varieties like dark cherry Balsamic)
Salt and pepper, to season


Directions
Bring a large pot (5 quart/liter) of water to a boil while you are trimming the kale leaves and slicing the shallot. Trim the ribs out of the center of the kale leaves, then cut the leaves crosswise into ribbons. Slice the peeled shallot crosswise into thin rings.
When water boils, add 2 teaspoons salt, then drop the kale leaves into the water and cook for 2 minutes (called blanching). Drain well through a sieve and place kale on a clean kitchen towel. Alternatively you can steam your kale for 2-3 minutes, then proceed with the recipe.
In a medium saute or fry pan (I use a 3 or 4 quart All Clad), heat the olive oil over medium low heat until warm. Add the shallot rings, then the garlic. Cook for 1-2 minutes, stirring until softened. Be careful not to let them burn. Add the cranberries, walnuts. and vinegar. Stir and cook for a minute, then add the cooked kale. Toss the kale ribbons to coat and warm, season up with salt and pepper, then serve.

Romesco sauce. The nut used varies from recipe to recipe, but walnuts would work well.

Make turkish poached chicken with walnut sauce
First poach the chicken in a stockpot w onion celery carrot bay leaf peppercorn and salt 20 mins simmering until chicken is cooked and cool chicken in broth
Remove the chicken and shred save the stock
Saute 1 chopped onion and some garlic in oil until soft but not brown add paprika pepper lemon zest and lemon juice and take it off the heat mix in 1-2 slices of bread and 2-3 cups walnuts And cool when cool put into a blender or food processor and mix it to a slightly textured paste adding the chicken stock as you go
Shred the chicken and add to the walnut sauce sprinkle pomegranate seed over it
Heat a little oil in a pan and add some paprika making it red pour the oil over the chicken
Its verry pretty and delicious w pita bread or rice