Recipes with nuts: satsivi, pudding, cookies and other delicious dishes

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Lifehacker will teach you how to cook satsivi with chicken, eggplant rolls, the most delicate chocolate cake with nuts and other simple dishes.

1. Satsivi with chicken

Satsivi is a peanut sauce infused with meat. Usually - chicken, so many people mean by satsivi not a sauce, but a dish. However, both red meat and fish can be served with satsivi.

There are more than one and a half dozen options for making the sauce. Here is one of them.

Ingredients

• 500 g chicken fillet;
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 onions;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 200 g walnuts plus a few for serving;
• 1 teaspoon ground coriander
• 1 teaspoon of hops-suneli;
• 1 teaspoon saffron
• ½ teaspoon of ground black pepper;
• 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• 3 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped.

Preparation

Place the chicken fillet in cold water and cook for about 5 minutes after boiling. Then season with salt and cook for another 15 minutes.

At this time, chop the onion and garlic (double the number of cloves if desired). Fry them in a well-heated skillet with olive oil. When the onion turns transparent, remove from heat and cool.

Grind the fried onions and garlic with a blender along with nuts and spices. Adjust the thickness of the resulting mixture with the broth in which the chicken was cooked until you achieve the consistency of thick kefir.

Cut the boiled chicken fillet into small pieces, place in the sauce, seasoned with apple cider vinegar, and refrigerate for 8-10 hours. When the poultry has a nutty flavor, serve with whole walnuts and fresh chopped cilantro.

2. Eggplant rolls with nut butter

The combination of eggplant and nuts is also very popular in Georgian cuisine. For example, these products can be used to make mouth-watering snack rolls.

Ingredients

• 3 medium eggplants;
• vegetable oil for frying;
• 1 cup shelled walnuts
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 1 bunch of cilantro;
• 2 teaspoons of hops-suneli;
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons of grape vinegar
• 2 small bunches of spinach and dill.

Preparation

Prepare the eggplants: cut into slices, soak in lightly salted water for half an hour to remove the bitterness, and fry on both sides. Put the finished eggplants on paper towels to remove excess heat.

Grind nuts, garlic and cilantro with a blender. Dilute the resulting paste with boiled water until the consistency of thick sour cream. Add seasoning, vinegar, and chopped herbs.

Place the filling on top of the fried eggplant and roll them up. Serve chilled.

3. Salad with chicken and nuts

This salad, easy to prepare and affordable in composition, is suitable for both everyday and festive tables.

Ingredients

• 500 g chicken breast;
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 100 g of nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts or almonds);
• 300 g of canned pineapples;
• 3-4 lettuce leaves;
• 2 tablespoons sour cream.

Preparation

Boil the chicken breast in salted water. This usually takes about 40 minutes. When cool, cut the meat into small cubes.

Chop the nuts and lightly dry in a pan without oil. Cut the pineapples into the same cubes as the meat. Seedless grapes can be used instead of or in conjunction with them. Tear the lettuce with your hands.

Mix all the ingredients and season with sour cream. You can also use light mayonnaise.

4. Cheese balls in nut breading

Another snack option with nuts. It is not only delicious, but also looks spectacular on the table.

Ingredients

• 200 g of curd cheese;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 1 teaspoon of provencal herbs;
• 50 g toasted almonds;
• 50 g cashews;
• 20 g of pine nuts.

Preparation

Mash the curd cheese with a fork and combine with the hard grated on a coarse grater. Add the provencal herbs and stir until smooth. If the mixture is too dry, add some plain yogurt or sour cream.

Form the curd into small balls and roll in the nuts. It is better to chop the almonds and cashews a little.

5. Energy bars

Will help you to refresh during the day and recuperate after training.

Ingredients

• ½ cup sesame seeds;
• ½ cup shelled pumpkin seeds;
• ¼ glasses of almonds;
• ¼ cups of sunflower seeds;
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons of honey;
• ¼ glasses of oatmeal;
• 1 teaspoon vegetable oil.

Preparation

If seeds and nuts are not roasted, heat them in a dry skillet. Grind the almonds with a blender (but not into flour). If desired, you can add other nuts, such as hazelnuts, or replace seeds with them.

Make syrup. To do this, combine honey and sugar and bring to a boil in a small saucepan. Add seeds, oatmeal, and nuts to the syrup. Stir well and place on oiled parchment paper.

Use a rolling pin to roll the mixture into a layer about 2–3 cm thick. Using a wooden spatula, divide into bars to make it easier to break them off. Refrigerate for a few hours.

6. Nut pudding

Usually this English dessert is prepared in a water bath, but there is also an easier option.

Ingredients

• 250 g loaf;
• 250 ml of milk;
• 3 eggs;
• 100 g butter;
• 150 g hazelnuts;
• ¾ glasses of sugar.

Preparation

Cut the loaf into small pieces, cover with milk and leave for 7-10 minutes. If you are using not a loaf, but just wheat bread, it is better to cut off the crusts.

Separate the yolks from the whites. Mix the former with melted butter (90 g) and chopped nuts, and whisk the latter with sugar. Combine everything with the milk mixture, mix thoroughly and place in a greased baking dish.

Bake for 30-40 minutes at 180 ° C. Serve with ice cream or condensed milk.

7. Nut cookies

In an hour and a half, you can bake a whole mountain of these cookies. It turns out to be very tasty and aromatic.

Ingredients

• 150 g butter;
• 100 g of nuts;
• 230 g flour;
• 70 g icing sugar;
• 1 bag of vanilla sugar;
• ½ teaspoon salt;
• 1 egg.

Preparation

Remove the butter from the refrigerator - let it soften. At this time, grind nuts: walnuts, hazelnuts, cashews, or a mix of them. The grind should be very fine. Combine nuts with 100-120 g flour, powdered sugar, vanilla sugar and salt.

Add melted butter and egg. Gradually adding the remaining flour, knead the tough dough. Let it stand for 10-15 minutes, then roll it out on parchment paper. You should get a layer 2-3 mm thick.

Cut out the cookies using the molds, remove the excess dough. (They can be rolled into another layer.) Transfer the parchment to a baking sheet.

Bake the cookies for 10-15 minutes at 180 ° C.

8. Chocolate cake with nuts

Sponge cake, chocolate and nuts are another classic combination in desserts. There are many variations here. Here is just one of them.

Ingredients

• 3 eggs;
• ½ cup sugar;
• ¾ glasses of flour;
• 1 bag of baking powder;
• 2 tablespoons of cocoa;
• 1 cup walnuts
• a piece of butter;
• 200 g heavy cream;
• ½ cans of condensed milk;
• 100 g of chocolate.

Preparation

Beat eggs and sugar until thick foam forms. Then add flour, baking powder, cocoa and chopped nuts (if there are no walnuts, replace with others to your taste). Mix everything thoroughly.

Cover the bottom of a round baking dish with parchment, grease the sides with butter. Place the dough in it. Bake in the oven for about 40 minutes at 220 ° C.

While the biscuit is baking, make a cream. To do this, mix the cream, condensed milk and a bar of chocolate grated on a fine grater in a saucepan. Put the cookware on fire and heat until you achieve a homogeneous consistency.

Cut the cooled biscuit into two or three cakes, depending on how well it has risen. Spread the cream on the cakes and let them soak for a few hours. Top the cake can be poured with chocolate icing. This will require another chocolate bar and a water bath.

9. Prunes with nuts

Both adults and children like this delicate dessert.

Ingredients

• 300 g prunes;
• 100 g of walnuts;
• 1 glass of sour cream;
• 2 tablespoons of sugar;
• chocolate chips for decoration.

Preparation

Pour hot water over the prunes and leave for half an hour. After that, the bones will be easily removed from it. Sometimes prunes are also soaked in red wine.

Dry the halves of the walnuts in the oven. Stuff the prunes with them and place them in the bowls. Whip sour cream with sugar and pour dried fruits over it. Sprinkle chocolate chips on top of each serving. You can make beautiful chocolate curls with a vegetable peeler.

10. Jam from nuts and gooseberries

A great option for tea drinking on cold winter evenings.

Ingredients

• 500 g gooseberries;
• 300 g of walnuts;
• 1 kg of sugar;
• 500 ml of water;
• 1 star anise.

Preparation

Rinse the gooseberries well. Cut off the tails and squeeze out the pulp: if you want a clear jam, you won't need it. Insert a quarter of a walnut into each berry.

Combine sugar with water and simmer until completely dissolved. Pour the syrup over the gooseberry and refrigerate overnight. After 8-10 hours, put the saucepan with berries and syrup on the fire. Add the star anise and cook until it boils.

Remove the jam from heat, remove the anise and place in sterilized half-liter jars. Roll up under the iron lids.