Walnut sauce is very tasty, its recipe was invented long ago in Japan, and therefore it is a traditional Japanese dish. Japanese cuisine in general has always been positive towards all kinds of culinary experiments, and therefore a variety of savory foods are very widespread in it. This sauce perfectly complements the taste of many salads. But usually it is served with a salad under the original name Chuka, because it is with it that he can fully reveal all the shades of his taste. Quite often, that's why they call it that - peanut sauce for Chuki.
Many Europeans perceive Japanese cuisine as strange and incomprehensible, while in reality everything is very simple: the secret of dishes is in the simplicity and harmony of the products from which these dishes are prepared. Also, Japanese cuisine is very entertaining with many of its details and nuances: design aesthetics, serving dishes, variety and so on.
But back to the dish like peanut sauce for Chuka. The recipe for this sauce may involve slight cooking variations, but its main components should always remain unchanged, they are the basis of the sauce. These are nuts (which are not particularly important), sesame, sugar and soy sauce.
To have an idea of what this “Chuka” salad consists of, its ingredients are given below. These are 450 - 500 grams of seaweed, 2 - 3 tablespoons of sesame seeds, half a glass of soy sauce, 2 tablespoons tea starch, 2 tablespoons tea oil sesame (brown, from fried seeds), 2 tablespoons tea lemon juice, 2 tablespoons optional tea sake and a little red hot freshly chopped pepper.
Well, in order to have a more complete picture of how recipes for making walnut sauce can vary, a few examples.
Hazelnut sauce for Chuki. Recipe with orange
Foods necessary for making the sauce: 300 grams of peanuts, 200 grams of butter, 25 grams of sesame seeds, 35 grams of onions, 3 grams of garlic (this is about one clove), 60 grams of orange, 150 grams of 3% vinegar, 40 grams granulated sugar, 60 grams of soy sauce.
It’s very tasty - nutty sauce for Chuki, the recipe using oranges makes it taste sweet and sour. So, all the ingredients listed above need only to be placed in a kitchen blender and beat into a mass with a uniform consistency - and that’s it! Walnut sauce is ready, bon appetit!
Hazelnut sauce for Chuki. Walnuts recipe
For cooking, you need to choose only the lightest - this means that they are fresh. You can, of course, use the old ones (since they have already lost moisture), but they may turn out to be rancid.
Necessary products - spices: saffron, red pepper, unzo suneli (spice, it is blue fenugreek), coriander, salt; 3 salt spoons of hot meat broth, wine vinegar (but you can replace it with dry white wine if you wish), a few drops of peanut butter, garlic (a few heads).
Sort walnuts and pass through the smallest grinder of the meat grinder (you can even grind it on a coffee grinder). A few (pieces 2 - 3) heads of garlic to peel and then pass through the press, you can use a special garlic press. Mix all of the above spices with each other. Mix nuts and spices and add a few tablespoons of hot meat broth to them, then grind thoroughly. Then, continuing to grind nuts and spices, carefully pour in wine vinegar or the wine itself. Wine or vinegar needs so much that the consistency of the resulting mass was like a pancake batter. Put on fire, bring to a boil, but in no case boil. When serving, drip a few drops of peanut butter. The result was a very delicious walnut sauce.