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I had been meaning to publish this post, and then I found this video showing how to make the sauce for Calçots and explaining what calçots are and how to cook calçots. The truth is that it is a great video and very well done.
The ingredients used by El Cocinero Fiel are:
Ingredients for the sauce:
- Ripe tomatoes (tomacons),
- hazelnuts, almonds, garlic,
- dried choricero or ñora peppers,
- Maria biscuits (or bread or carquinyolis, Catalan almond biscuits),
- vinegar, olive oil and salt
See the original video on YouTube ↗
I hadn't thought of using Maria biscuits; that slightly sweet touch must be nice. 🙂
We have a recipe that my grandmother gave me. Who are the best cooks in the world? Grandmothers. :P.
I find them lately in powder prepared to directly make the sauce, so yourselves to your liking.
Can Pepitu Calçots Sauce Recipe:
- 100g toasted almonds
- 30g toasted almonds
- ¾ of a glass of arbequina oil D.O Siurana
- Vinegar that we will only use to moisten the toasted bread
- 1 piece of toasted bread
- 1 ñora or dried choricero pepper.
- 1 head of fire-roasted garlic
- 5 ripe red tomatoes or 4 large ones also roasted over the fire.
- Salt to taste.
Preparation:
- We roast the head of garlic and the tomatoes on the fire,
- Peel the roasted tomatoes.
- We wet toasted bread with vinegar
- We add everything to a pot and blend with a hand blender. Until we achieve the desired consistency.
And voilà! We already have good good sauce for about 7-8 people.
If you have any variation or different sauce, you can send it to us at info@calsotada.com and we will publish it.