Ajo Blanco With Almond Cucumber And White Anchovy Salad Recipes

AJO BLANCO WITH ALMOND, CUCUMBER AND WHITE ANCHOVY SALAD

Steps:

• Ajo Blanco:.
• Place blanched almonds in a bowl and cover with water. Cover and stand overnight.
• Place bread in a bowl and cover with water. Stand for 1 hour. Drain and squeeze excess water from bread.
• Place bread in a food processor with drained almonds and garlic; process until well combined.
• With the motor running, gradually add the 3 3/4 cups water in a thin, steady stream until nuts are finely chopped and mixture is well combined.
• Transfer to a bowl, cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or until chilled.
• Strain soup through a fine seive into a bowl taking care not to push the mixture through as this will result in a gritty soup. Discard the pulp.
• Add the sherry vinegar and mayonnaise; season to taste with salt and pepper. Whisk until just combined and pour into a serving jug.
• Divide and arrange the salad ingredients between 4 bowls. To serve, pour the soup over the salad at the table.

SOPA DE AJO BLANCO CHILLED GARLIC SOUP.

Steps:

• If you do not have blanched almonds, you can prepare them by hand. Boil a small pot of water. Add.
• almonds and boil for 2 minutes. Drain and dry on paper towels. The skins will slip off easily.
• Peel garlic. Trim crust from bread slices if using French-style or rustic bread. Place bread in one.
• to two cups cold water to soak.
• While bread is soaking, place garlic and almonds into a food processor or blender (we recommend.
• a VitaMix to achieve the desired end product). Blend or pulse until smooth. Remove bread.
• from water and squeeze out excess water. Tear bread into quarters and add bread and 1 tsp salt to.
• processor or blender. Blend or pulse on high. While blending, slowly drizzle olive oil, then vinegar,.
• and finally the water into blender or processor. Taste. Adjust salt, vinegar and oil to taste.
• Pour into a container or bowl. Seal and chill at least two to three hours or overnight. Serve inches.
• chilled bowls or glass mugs, with a splash of vivid green virgin olive oil.
• NOTE - Traditionally, this dish is served with a few green grapes as a garnish; we like the contrasting color, however we prefer to.
• substitute olive oil drops.

CROATIAN ANCHOVY SALAD

Steps:

• Clean the anchovies (remove head and guts).
• Boil the water (use large pot with low rim, so that all anchovies have the same chance) with garlic clove, 2 bay leaves and salt until boils. Add vinegar and remove the pot from fire.
• Add anchovies in that hot water and keep them inside not more than 2 minutes. When meat starts to separate from bones it's done (you have to take them out just before this happens).
• Using hollow spoon remove the anchovies from water and put them in a bowl.
• Before you put them in a bowl, slice the onion into rounds and arrange them to cover the bottom (take also large bowl with low rim).
• Spread rosemary leaves, capers, black pepper berries, bay leaves over onion and than put anchovies over. Pour olive oil over anchovies. Slice lemon into rings and arrange rings to cover anchovies. You can put just some of cooked water over if you want to keep them in refrigerator.
• Cool the salad and serve.
• You can keep the salad in refrigerator up to 4 days.