Romesco Sauce, Traditionally Served With Seafood

I battled to find a recipe for Romesco Sauce in my huge collection of books. And then when I did, I adapted it to suit the ingredients I had at home. It goes perfectly with seafood and I served it with octopus and crayfish over the festive season.

Romesco Sauce

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I am often inspired to make a recipe just by looking at the photograph. Other times the recipe name or the ingredient list will urge me to try it. When I get a recipe book to review I read the title of the recipe first to decide whether or not it takes my fancy. And if it does, then I read the ingredient list to see if it contains anything we dislike. If the recipe is something we would actually eat, I might give it a try. But not always, as most times I only test recipes I can publish. I recently came across a recipe that looked so good. And when it was on my list of recipes I could publish I went out and bought the ingredients. The first thing I had to do was make a caramel.

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When recipe testing from a book I follow the instructions as best I can. This might mean going against my instinct. And in this case I burnt the first lot of caramel. The second batch seemed to work better, but it seized as soon as I put it into the tin. I ignored that, and topped the caramel with fruit and then made the batter. There didn’t seem to be enough mixture as it did not quite cover the fruit. I put that aside and baked the cake and skewer tested it. Even though the skewer came out clean, the batter was not cooked properly which I discovered when I took it out of the tin. Not wanting to waste the ingredients,. I placed the cake back in the oven, making a pudding like texture with very soft plums. It is so delicious that I might have to adapt it for the blog.
Romesco Sauce

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Romesco Sauce

This is an ideal sauce to serve with seafood
Recipe Category: Sauces
All Rights Reserved: an original recipe from Lavender and Lime

Ingredients

  • 5 medium orange, yellow or red peppers or a mixture
  • 4 large garlic cloves
  • 2 thick slices of ciabatta
  • Olive oil for drizzling
  • 2 Israeli tomatoes, roughly chopped
  • 5 mls smoked paprika
  • 1.25 mls dried chilli flakes
  • 60 g flaked almonds, lightly toasted
  • 15 mls lemon juice
  • 15 mls apple cider vinegar
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper to season

Method

  • Place the peppers and garlic onto a griddle pan on a high temperature
  • Char until the skin is blackened and then place the peppers into a bowl
  • Cover with clingfilm and set aside to cool
  • Peel the garlic and place into a blender
  • Drizzle the ciabatta with olive oil and toast on the griddle pan over a medium temperature
  • When nice and crispy, remove and cut off the crusts
  • Roughly chop and place into the blender
  • Remove the skin from the peppers, deseed and destem and place into the blender together with the tomatoes, paprika, chilli flakes, almonds, lemon juice and vinegar
  • Blitz until slightly chunky
  • Season to taste and serve
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18 thoughts on “Romesco Sauce, Traditionally Served With Seafood

  1. Love Romesco sauce, funny but I did a post about it earlier this month as well.

    No one has mentioned it but right in the middle of your post on Romesco is the following.

    “When recipe testing from a book I follow the instructions as best I can. This might mean going against my instinct. And in this case I burnt the first lot of caramel. The second batch seemed to work better, but it seized as soon as I put it into the tin. I ignored that, and topped the caramel with fruit and then made the batter. There didn’t seem to be enough mixture as it did not quite cover the fruit. I put that aside and baked the cake and skewer tested it. Even though the skewer came out clean, the batter was not cooked properly which I discovered when I took it out of the tin. Not wanting to waste the ingredients,. I placed the cake back in the oven, making a pudding like texture with very soft plums. It is so delicious that I might have to adapt it for the blog.”

    Thought you would want to fix that as it must be for another recipe.

    1. Hi, it’s not a mistake. It follows on from the introduction. All my blog posts have random stories totally unrelated to the recipe. I schedule my posts about 6 weeks in advance so we must have been enjoying the sauce at the same time.

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